Life style; personal characteristics

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Characteristics Margins Sexual health, 16 years or older Use of contraception (pill incl.)16-49 (%) Sexual health, 16 years or older Use of contraceptive pill, 16-49 years (%)
Total persons Value 77.0 26.5
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 74.6 24.5
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 79.2 28.7
Sex: Male Value . .
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Sex: Female Value 77.0 26.5
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 74.6 24.5
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 79.2 28.7
Age: 0 to 3 years Value . .
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Age: 4 to 11 years Value . .
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Age: 12 to 15 years Value . .
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Age: 16 to 19 years Value . 39.8
Lower bound 95% confidence interval . 33.2
Upper bound 95% confidence interval . 46.8
Age: 20 to 29 years Value 85.8 35.4
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 81.9 31.3
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 88.9 39.6
Age: 30 to 39 years Value 71.3 19.6
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 67.1 16.5
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 75.3 23.2
Age: 40 to 49 years Value 70.6 19.3
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 65.7 16.1
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 75.0 22.9
Age: 50 to 54 years Value . .
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Age: 55 to 64 years Value . .
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Age: 65 to 74 years Value . .
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Age: 75 years or older Value . .
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Age: 0 to 11 years Value . .
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Age: 12 to 17 years Value . 37.6
Lower bound 95% confidence interval . 29.0
Upper bound 95% confidence interval . 46.9
Age: 18 years or older Value 76.7 25.8
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 74.3 23.8
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 78.9 28.0
Origin country: The Netherlands Value 80.3 29.2
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 77.7 26.7
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 82.7 31.9
Origin country: Europe (excl. NL) Value 71.3 22.8
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 63.4 17.3
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 78.1 29.3
Origin country: outside Europe Value 69.0 21.5
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 62.6 17.6
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 74.8 26.0
Origin: born in the Netherlands Value 79.8 28.8
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 77.3 26.5
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 82.0 31.2
Origin: born in NL, parents in NL Value 80.3 29.2
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 77.7 26.7
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 82.7 31.9
Origin: born in NL, parent(s) abroad Value 77.0 27.2
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 69.6 22.0
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 82.9 33.2
Origin: born in NL, parent(s) in Europe Value . .
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Origin: born NL, parent(s) out. Europe Value 78.3 26.8
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 69.5 20.7
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 85.1 33.9
Origin: born abroad Value 65.4 18.2
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 58.8 14.3
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 71.5 22.8
Origin: born in Europe (excl. NL) Value 70.0 19.6
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 60.0 13.5
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 78.3 27.6
Origin: born outside Europe Value 62.1 17.4
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 53.2 12.7
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 70.3 23.3
Position: single; < 40 year Value 86.7 36.9
Lower bound 95% confidence interval 79.7 30.7
Upper bound 95% confidence interval 91.5 43.5
Position: single; 40 to 64 years Value . .
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Position: single; >= 65 years Value . .
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Position: child<18 yrs one-parent Value . .
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Positon: child of age, one-parent househ Value . .
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Position: child < 18 yrs, two-parents Value . .
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table contains data on life style of the Dutch population in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics.

Data available from: 2014.

Status of the data: final.

Changes by April 3, 2025:
Data about 2024 have been added.
Figures taking a fall course or fall training among people aged 65 and over were added and data about high risk sexual activity in the previous twelve months among people aged 16 and over were added.

Changes by September 24, 2024:
The nutrition score is calculated based on various components.
For the component score for snacks, for children aged 1 to 9 years people, the cut-off point of persons aged 9 years and older were incorrectly used instead of the age-specific cut-off points. This has been adjusted. As a result, the figures for the total food score (high, medium, low and average nutrition score) changed slightly.

When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2025 will be published in the second quarter of 2026

Description topics

Sexual health, 16 years or older
The questions on sexual health are asked to persons aged 16 years or older.
Use of contraception (pill incl.)16-49
The percentage of the sexually active women aged 16 to 49 years who use contraceptives, such as the contraception pill, condom, IUD, or sterilization. A woman is considered to be sexually active, if she has had sex, with a man, in the last 12 months. As of 2021, the question about contraceptive methods, other than the contraceptive pill, has changed. Where previously it was asked “Do you currently use another method of contraception, for example condoms, a IUD or sterilization?”, with the answer options 'yes', 'no' and 'no answer', from 2021 you will be asked “Do you currently use (any) other contraception?”, with the answer options 'no', 'yes condoms', 'yes, a copper IUD', 'yes, a hormone IUD', 'yes, you have been sterilized', 'yes your partner has been sterilized', 'yes another method' and 'no answer'. Explicitly naming the different methods as an answer option may have resulted in a higher number of yes answers. It is therefore not easy to compare figures on contraceptive use from 2020 and earlier with figures from 2021 and later. From 2023 onwards, questions about sexual activity indicate more clearly that it concerns sex with a man. This makes it clearer that women who have sex with women should answer 'no' to this question. This must be taken into account when interpreting the comparison of the 2023 figures on contraceptive use with previous figures.
Use of contraceptive pill, 16-49 years
For the years 2014-2016 and since 2020: the percentage of women aged 16 to 49 years who use the contraceptive pill. For the years 2017-2019: the percentage of sexually active women aged 16 to 49 years who use the contraceptive pill. Women are sexually active if they have had sex in the last 12 months.

The percentages since 2020 are therefore comparable to the percentages of 2014-2016, but not to those for 2017-2019.