15-12-2011Press release
The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for November 2011 stood at 455 thousand.
13-12-2011Web magazine
In nearly all countries of the world, more men than women smoke. Also, the percentage of people who smoke daily decreased nearly everywhere between 1999 and 2009.
06-12-2011Web magazine
Just over one in three employees regularly work overtime. More men and full-time workers work overtime than women and part-time workers.
06-12-2011Press release
These are a few conclusions from the Jaarboek onderwijs in cijfers 2011, an annual report with statistics on education in the Netherlands (published in Dutch only) released today.
17-11-2011Press release
Seasonally adjusted unemployment increased by 17 thousand in October 2011 to 455 thousand.
20-10-2011Press release
According to the most recent figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment increased by 17 thousand in September 2011 to 438 thousand, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.
15-09-2011Press release
According to the latest figures released by Statistics Netherlands, unemployment, adjusted for seasonal variation, grew by 8 housand in August 2011, reaching 421 thousand or 5.4 percent of the labour force.
18-08-2011Press release
Seasonally adjusted unemployment totalled 413 thousand in July, exceeding the 400 thousand mark for the first time in 2011.
21-07-2011Press release
According to the latest figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment totalled 392 thousand in June 2011, a reduction by 9 thousand from May.
19-07-2011Web magazine
Over the past decade, the amount of jobs in the care sector increased by 385 thousand. Overall employment growth in the Netherlands was 515 thousand, so three quarters of new jobs in the past ten years were created in the care sector.
07-07-2011Web magazine
In the past three years, the number of young families in the Netherlands has increased. The number of first-time mothers has risen from 82 thousand in 2008 to nearly 86 thousand in 2010.
30-06-2011Web magazine
More than 950 thousand women were higher educated than their partners in 2010, which means that in nearly one in every four couples the woman is the highest educated. In recent years, the number of couples, in which the female partner has the highest level of education, has gradually increased.
28-06-2011Web magazine
A growing part of 18 to 25-year-olds embark on a study in higher vocational education (hbo) or university (wo). Women and young people with a non-western background are the main contributors to the increase.
23-06-2011Press release
In May 2011 the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached 400 thousand. This equals 5.1 percent of the labour force.
21-06-2011Web magazine
Couples where the man works full-time and the woman part-time are the least inclined to change their working hours.
07-06-2011Web magazine
One in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.
26-05-2011Web magazine
Last year, one in ten women who married for the first time were over the age of 40 versus one in hundred in 1980. As more and more couples live together before they marry, the marriage date is more often postponed.
19-05-2011Press release
In April this year, 392 thousand people (5.0 percent of the labour force) were unemployed in the Netherlands. The figure is adjusted for seasonal variation.
10-05-2011Web magazine
In school year 2008/’09, the number of students in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) who successfully completed courses in nursing and care disciplines, and courses training for assistance in care and welfare topped 20 thousand for the first time.
21-04-2011Press release
Tthe number of unemployed people in the Netherlands at 395 thousand in March 2011, after adjustment for seasonal effects
05-04-2011Web magazine
Some 264 thousand workers in the Netherlands were entitled to parental leave in 2009. Only 79 thousand actually took this leave.
29-03-2011Web magazine
Over two thirds of youths do not take enough exercise, smoke, drink excessively or consume cannabis.
17-03-2011Press release
Adjusted for seasonal variation, 400 thousand persons (5.1 percent of the Dutch labour force) were registered as unemployed in February 2011. The number of unemployed remained stable in February.
08-03-2011Web magazine
The labour participation rate for Dutch women is the highest in the European Union (EU).
08-03-2011Web magazine
The number of women who could not accept jobs of twelve hours or more a week, because they had to care for their families was reduced form 755 thousand in 2001 to 318 thousand in 2010.
22-02-2011Web magazine
Forty years ago to the day, on 27 February 1971, the first abortion clinic opened its doors in the Netherlands. Approximately 28 thousand abortions are carried out on women living in the Netherlands every year.
17-02-2011Press release
Labour participation and economic independence of women increase in spite of crisis.
17-02-2011Press release
According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation was 398 thousand in January 2011, i.e. 5.1 percent of the labour force.
20-01-2011Press release
Seasonally-adjusted unemployment was 401 thousand in December 2010, a reduction by 8 thousand relative to November.
