Employment; economic activity, quarterly, National Accounts, 1995-q1 2024

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Employment type Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Employed persons Employed persons (x 1,000) Employed persons Employed persons seasonal adjusted (x 1,000) Jobs Jobs (x 1,000) Jobs Jobs seasonal adjusted (x 1,000) Hours worked Hours worked (million hours) Hours worked Hours worked seasonal adjusted (million hours) Change on corresponding period (y/y) Employed persons (x 1 000) Change on corresponding period (y/y) Jobs (x 1 000) Change on previous period (q/q) Employed persons seasonal adjusted (x 1 000) Change on previous period (q/q) Jobs seasonal adjusted (x 1 000)
Total A-U All economic activities 10,316 10,399 11,572 11,646 3,822 3,664 120 117 39 42
C Manufacturing 826 826 860 860 351 331 0 -1 1 1
78 Employment activities . . . . . . . . . .
O-Q Government and care 2,893 2,890 3,233 3,215 983 919 89 86 16 18
Q Health and social work activities 1,670 1,669 1,893 1,882 524 491 39 39 5 7
Employees A-U All economic activities 8,484 8,563 9,008 9,071 3,088 2,919 75 79 22 25
C Manufacturing 778 779 793 793 329 308 2 2 -1 -1
78 Employment activities 605 644 662 700 219 219 -31 -34 -2 -3
O-Q Government and care 2,532 2,534 2,700 2,688 854 792 45 47 6 7
Q Health and social work activities 1,389 1,393 1,488 1,483 427 395 9 10 -2 -2
Self-employed A-U All economic activities 1,832 1,837 2,564 2,575 734 745 44 38 17 17
C Manufacturing 48 47 67 67 22 23 -2 -3 1 1
78 Employment activities . . . . . . . . . .
O-Q Government and care 361 356 533 526 129 127 44 39 10 11
Q Health and social work activities 281 277 405 398 97 97 30 28 7 9
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table provides data about the employment of employees and self-employed persons. It contains annual and quarterly data on employed persons, jobs, and hours worked. The seasonal adjusted time series are also available in this table.

Data available from: 1995 first quarter up to and including 2024 first quarter.

Status of the figures:
Data from 1995 up to and including 2020 are final. Data of 2021 and further are provisional. Since this table has been discontinued, data of 2021 and further will not become final.

Changes as of June 24th 2024:
None. This table has been discontinued.
Statistics Netherlands has carried out a revision of the national accounts. New statistical sources, methods and concepts are implemented in the national accounts, in order to align the picture of the Dutch economy with all underlying source data and international guidelines for the compilation of the national accounts. For further information see section 3.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.

Description topics

Employed persons
Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an institution or private household in the Netherlands.
Employed persons
Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an institution or private household in the Netherlands.
Employed persons seasonal adjusted
The removal of annually recurring patterns from the figures which are normal for a particular time of year.
Jobs
A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.

A distinction is made between jobs of employees and jobs of self-employed persons.
Jobs
A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.

A distinction is made between jobs of employees and jobs of self-employed persons.
Jobs seasonal adjusted
The removal of annually recurring patterns from the figures which are normal for a particular time of year.
Hours worked
The number of hours actually worked by someone with a paid job.
Hours worked
The number of hours actually worked by someone with a paid job.
Hours worked seasonal adjusted
The removal of annually recurring patterns from the figures which are normal for a particular time of year.
Change on corresponding period (y/y)
Change on corresponding period (year-on-year).
Employed persons
Jobs
Change on previous period (q/q)
Change on previous period (quarter-on-quarter).
Employed persons seasonal adjusted
Jobs seasonal adjusted