Health and health care; personal characteristics
| Characteristics | Margins | Periods | Medication, last 14 days Persons with prescribed medicines (%) | Medication, last 14 days Non-prescribed medicines, since 2025 (%) | Medication, last 14 days Non-prescribed medicines (2014-2024) (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Value | 2025 | 19.5 | 58.5 | . |
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 13.7 | 50.1 | . |
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 27.1 | 66.5 | . |
| Position: member other household | Value | 2025 | 31.9 | 56.7 | . |
| Position: member other household | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 26.5 | 50.6 | . |
| Position: member other household | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 37.7 | 62.6 | . |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
Table explanation
This table contains data on the perceived state of health and on contacts with providers of medical care of the Dutch population from 0 years on in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics. For several topics a different age demarcation applies. The age boundaries are listed at the relevant topics.
Data available from: 2014
Status of the data: final.
Changes by March 13, 2026
The 2025 figures have been added. The table has been expanded with information on diabetes (other than type 1 or type 2). As of 2025, the new topic "Neck disorder" will replace "disorder of the neck or shoulder", the new topic " Arthrosis, 12 plus " will replace " Arthrosis of Hip/knee 12 or older" and the new topic “Non-prescribed medicines, since 2025” will replace “Non-prescribed medicines (2014-2024)”. Besides that, the personal characteristic of poverty (classified as poor, near-poor and not poor or not near poor) has been added.
Within the characteristic 'position in household', the category 'other member of household' has been changed to 'member other household', because that is more correct and some minor textual changes are made in the explanations of the categories of positions in household.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2026 will be published in the second quarter of 2027.
Description topics
- Medication, last 14 days
- These questions deal with the use of medicine and the use of herbal medicines or vitamins, whether or not prescribed by a physician. The questions are posed to respondents of all ages.
- Persons with prescribed medicines
- Percentage of persons who in 14 days preceding the inquiry date used medicines prescribed by a physician. The contraceptive pill is not taken into consideration here.
- Non-prescribed medicines, since 2025
- Percentage persons who answered ‘yes’ on the question ‘Did you use any medicines, herbal medicines or vitamins not prescribed by a doctor during the past two weeks (excluding contraception). Since 2025 ‘Think, for example, about paracetamol, ibuprofen, homeopathic medicines or multivitamins’’ was added to the question.
- Non-prescribed medicines (2014-2024)
- Percentage of persons who in 14 days preceding the interview used (herbal) medicines or vitamins that were not prescribed by a physician.