Employed labour force; economic activity (SIC 2008), 2003-2022

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Employed labour force; economic activity (SIC 2008), 2003-2022
Sex Personal characteristics SIC 2008 Periods Employed labour force (x 1 000)
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees A-U All economic activities 2022 1st quarter 1,120
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees B-E Industry (no construction), energy 2022 1st quarter 41
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees B-F Manufacturing and energy 2022 1st quarter 145
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees G-I Trade, transport, hotels, catering 2022 1st quarter 149
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees G-N Commercial services 2022 1st quarter 551
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees M-N Business services 2022 1st quarter 297
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees O-Q Government and care 2022 1st quarter 206
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees O-U Noncommercial services 2022 1st quarter 353
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees R-U Culture, recreation, other services 2022 1st quarter 147
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 2022 1st quarter 53
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees B Mining and quarrying 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees C Manufacturing 2022 1st quarter 38
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts 2022 1st quarter 2
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 16-18 Man. wood en paperprod., printing 2022 1st quarter 5
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 20 Manufacture of chemicals 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 21 Manufacture of pharmaceuticals 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 22-23 Man. plastics and constructionprod 2022 1st quarter 2
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products 2022 1st quarter 5
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 26 Manufacture of electronic products 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 27 Manufacture of electric equipment 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 28 Manufacture of machinery n.e.c. 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 29-30 Transport equipment 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 31-33 Other manufacturing and repair 2022 1st quarter 19
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees D Energy supply 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 35 Energy supply 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees E Water supply and waste management 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees F Construction 2022 1st quarter 104
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees G Wholesale and retail trade 2022 1st quarter 84
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees H Transportation and storage 2022 1st quarter 39
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees I Accommodation and food serving 2022 1st quarter 26
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees J Information and communication 2022 1st quarter 74
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 58-60 Publishing, movie, radio and TV 2022 1st quarter 25
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 61 Telecommunications 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 62-63 IT- and information services 2022 1st quarter 49
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees K Financial institutions 2022 1st quarter 23
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees L Renting, buying, selling real estate 2022 1st quarter 8
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees M Other specialised business services 2022 1st quarter 240
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 69-71 Management, technical consultancy 2022 1st quarter 165
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 72 Research and development 2022 1st quarter 4
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 73-75 Advertising, design and other 2022 1st quarter 72
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees N Renting and other business support 2022 1st quarter 56
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees O Public administration and services 2022 1st quarter 4
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees P Education 2022 1st quarter 73
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees Q Health and social work activities 2022 1st quarter 130
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 86 Human health activities 2022 1st quarter 79
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees 87-88 Care and social work 2022 1st quarter 51
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees R Culture, sports and recreation 2022 1st quarter 84
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees S Other service activities 2022 1st quarter 62
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees T Activities of households 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees U Extraterritorial organisations 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: entrepreneur no employees Unknown 2022 1st quarter 17
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees A-U All economic activities 2022 1st quarter 336
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees B-E Industry (no construction), energy 2022 1st quarter 15
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees B-F Manufacturing and energy 2022 1st quarter 31
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees G-I Trade, transport, hotels, catering 2022 1st quarter 115
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees G-N Commercial services 2022 1st quarter 220
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees M-N Business services 2022 1st quarter 62
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees O-Q Government and care 2022 1st quarter 50
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees O-U Noncommercial services 2022 1st quarter 63
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees R-U Culture, recreation, other services 2022 1st quarter 14
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 2022 1st quarter 21
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees B Mining and quarrying 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees C Manufacturing 2022 1st quarter 13
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 16-18 Man. wood en paperprod., printing 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 19 Manufacture of coke and petroleum 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 20 Manufacture of chemicals 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 21 Manufacture of pharmaceuticals 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 22-23 Man. plastics and constructionprod 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products 2022 1st quarter 3
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 26 Manufacture of electronic products 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 27 Manufacture of electric equipment 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 28 Manufacture of machinery n.e.c. 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 29-30 Transport equipment 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 31-33 Other manufacturing and repair 2022 1st quarter 5
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees D Energy supply 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 35 Energy supply 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees E Water supply and waste management 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees F Construction 2022 1st quarter 17
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees G Wholesale and retail trade 2022 1st quarter 70
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees H Transportation and storage 2022 1st quarter 14
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees I Accommodation and food serving 2022 1st quarter 32
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees J Information and communication 2022 1st quarter 11
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 58-60 Publishing, movie, radio and TV 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 61 Telecommunications 2022 1st quarter 0
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 62-63 IT- and information services 2022 1st quarter 11
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees K Financial institutions 2022 1st quarter 27
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees L Renting, buying, selling real estate 2022 1st quarter 4
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees M Other specialised business services 2022 1st quarter 48
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 69-71 Management, technical consultancy 2022 1st quarter 39
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 72 Research and development 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 73-75 Advertising, design and other 2022 1st quarter 9
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees N Renting and other business support 2022 1st quarter 13
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees O Public administration and services 2022 1st quarter 1
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees P Education 2022 1st quarter 6
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees Q Health and social work activities 2022 1st quarter 43
Total male and female Empl. status: self-employed w. employees 86 Human health activities 2022 1st quarter 36
Source: CBS.
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Dataset is not available.


This table contains quarterly and yearly figures on the economic activities where people work. The population of 15 to 74 years of age (excluding the institutionalized population) in paid employment is classified according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2008). A division by sex, age, level of education, professional status and working hours is available.

Due to changes in the survey design and the questionnaire of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), a revision of the figures for 2021 was carried out in the first quarter of 2022.
As a result, the numbers of 2021 and later will not be comparable to the years 2003-2020.

Data available for 2003-2022

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.

Changes as of August 17, 2022:
None, the table has been discontinued.

From 2021 onwards the categories ‘Empl. status: perm. with flexible hours' and ‘Empl. status: temp. with flexible hours' are stopped. From 2021 they are counted in ‘Empl. status: on-call worker' category. In addition, a new category ' Empl. status: flex, contract unknown' has been added from 2021 onwards. For the self-employed, the category ' Empl. status: other self-employed' has been removed

When will new figures be released?
Not applicable. This table has been replaced, see paragraph 3 for a link to the new table.

Description topics

Employed labour force
People who have paid work.

This definition concerns people who live in the Netherlands (excluding the institutionalized population). The figures are usually presented for the population aged 15 to 75 years old. Paid work is regardless of the hours worked.