23-12-2010Web magazine
Nearly one in every ten live-born babies were born to single mothers last year. Nine in ten were born to couples living together.
16-12-2010Press release
The seasonally adjusted Dutch unemployment figure in November 2010 stood at 409 thousand.
14-12-2010Web magazine
The Dutch government spent nearly 10 billion euro on income-dependent allowances for housing, care and childcare in 2009. This is half a billion more than in 2008.
09-12-2010Web magazine
In 2009, 2,636 babies were born in the Netherlands to mothers younger than 20 years. This makes the Dutch teenage birth rate one of the lowest in the world.
25-11-2010Web magazine
In 2009, the most popular job among women was shop assistant and the most popular job among men was lorry driver. These jobs were also chosen in 1993.
18-11-2010Press release
The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for October 2010 stood at 410 thousand, i.e. 2 thousand fewer than in September.
26-10-2010Web magazine
The economic crisis pushed up unemployment in the Netherlands to 4.8 percent in 2009. This is still very low compared with the towering levels in the 1930s.
21-10-2010Press release
Adjusted for seasonal variation, 412 thousand persons were unemployed in September 2010.
19-10-2010Web magazine
Childcare provided by day care centres, after-school care and voluntary care were the main types of childcare in 2009 for more than half of the 1.4 million households in the Netherlands with one or two working parents.
28-09-2010Web magazine
In recent years, the wage gap between men and women has gradually narrowed. Young men’s gross wages are on average approximately 10 percent higher than the wages of their female counterparts.
16-09-2010Press release
386 thousand persons were unemployed in August 2010. Unemployment is obviously subject to seasonal variation. After correction for seasonal variation, 414 thousand persons were unemployed, a decline by 12 thousand relative to July.
07-09-2010Web magazine
The proportion of pupils in pre-university education (vwo) choosing one of the two nature subject clusters has increased steadily. The nature subject clusters have been the most popular choice for a number of years now.
19-08-2010Press release
In July this year, 449 thousand people were unemployed, i.e. 5.7 percent of the Dutch labour force.
22-07-2010Press release
In June this year, 441 thousand persons in the Netherlands were unemployed, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.9 percent in June 2009.
06-07-2010Web magazine
Last year, there were 1.6 million couples with at least one underage child in the Netherlands. In 77 percent of these families both parents worked.
24-06-2010Web magazine
In 2009, one in every forty women were subject to unwelcome sexual advances; 20 percent occurred in the workplace. Only 10 percent were reported to the police.
17-06-2010Press release
In the period March-May 2010, the number of unemployed persons in the Netherlands averaged 437 thousand, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.6 percent in the same period last year.
15-06-2010Web magazine
The number of women, who have attained economic independence is growing. In 2000, 39 percent of women had reached at least the social security income level for singles versus 46 percent in 2008.
10-06-2010Web magazine
The number of parents receiving childcare allowances is rising continually. In 2009, there were more than half a million recipients, an increase by 11 percent relative to one year previously.
21-05-2010Press release
In the period February-April 2010, unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 459 thousand.
22-04-2010Press release
472 thousand people were unemployed in the Netherlands in the period January-March 2010.
15-04-2010Web magazine
In the 6-80 age category, 71 percent of men and 66 percent of women are active in sports. Running, billiards and football are popular among men; dancing, korfball and hockey are typically favoured by women.
01-04-2010Web magazine
In the third quarter of 2009, nearly 400 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed; 24 percent managed to find new jobs of twelve hours a week or more within three months, as opposed to nearly 30 percent in the same period in 2008.
25-03-2010Web magazine
In 2008, more than 11 thousand farm successors were ready to take over an agricultural or horticultural holding; 8.5 percent of them were women, as against 6.8 percent in 2000.
23-03-2010Web magazine
Requests for childcare allowances were submitted for 30 percent of children under the age of twelve in 2008.
18-03-2010Press release
An average of 441 thousand people (5.7 percent of the labour force) were unemployed Netherlands in the period December 2009–February 2010, as against 4.1 percent one year previously.
11-03-2010Web magazine
Nearly one in twelve people in work would like to increase their working hours. Male part-timers more often want to increase their working hours than women and they appear to be more successful in achieving that too.
09-03-2010Web magazine
Mothers who work for 28 hours or more per week are more likely to be self-employed than women with no children living at home.
18-02-2010Press release
An average of 430 thousand persons were unemployed in the period November 2009-January 2010, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.
28-01-2010Web magazine
Life expectancy for girls born in the Netherlands in 2008 was 82.3 years, 4 years higher than for boys (78.3 years). Since 1980, the life expectancy gender gap has narrowed.
28-01-2010Web magazine
In 2008, the average, first-generation, non-western woman was more than one year older when she had her first child than in 1996. The average age for native Dutch women to become first-time mothers rose by nearly six months over the same period.
21-01-2010Web magazine
14-01-2010Web magazine
The disposable income of single mothers is considerably lower than that of cohabiting or married mothers. The average disposable income of single mothers was 15 thousand euro in 2008, as against nearly 25 thousand euro for mothers living with partners.
12-01-2010Web magazine
Some 30 thousand Dutch couples separated by using the flash divorce procedure in the period 2001-2009. The highest numbers of flash divorces were recorded in the years from 2003 to 2005, when around 5 thousand couples annually separated using this procedure.
12-01-2010Web magazine
Four years after their separation, half of divorced men have remarried or live together with new partners. Divorced women are much more often living alone four years later.
