Life style; personal characteristics
| Characteristics | Margins | Periods | Length and weight Reported length, 18 years or older (number) | Length and weight Reported weight, 18 years or older (number) | Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023 Consumption of sugary drinks Sugary drinks: at least 4 glasses/day (%) | Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023 Consumption of sugary drinks Sugary drinks: 1 to 3 glasses per day (%) | Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023 Consumption of sugary drinks Sugary drinks: never or not weekly (%) | Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023 Consumption of sugary drinks Sugary drinks: glasses per week (number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 175.5 | 79.2 | 3.9 | 15.3 | 45.6 | 5.5 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.2 | 78.8 | 3.5 | 14.4 | 44.4 | 5.3 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.7 | 79.7 | 4.4 | 16.1 | 46.8 | 5.7 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 175.2 | 79.0 | 4.1 | 15.9 | 44.5 | 5.6 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 174.9 | 78.6 | 3.6 | 15.2 | 43.4 | 5.4 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.4 | 79.4 | 4.6 | 16.8 | 45.6 | 5.8 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||
Dataset is not available.
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 March 14, 2024:
Data about 2023 have been added.
Figures about laughing gas have been added. The questions about nutrition have changed in 2023.
That is why a new series for nutrition will be started in 2023 and the old series of figures on nutrition (2014-2022) will no longer be added.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2024 will be published in the second quarter of 2025
Description topics
- Length and weight
- The questions on length and weight were asked to every person. It is asked to report one's length in centimetres and one's body weight in kilograms without clothes. If a woman is pregnant, she is asked to report her body weight before the pregnancy.
- Reported length, 18 years or older
- The mean length in centimetres reported by persons of 18 years or older, without shoes
- Reported weight, 18 years or older
- The mean weight in kilograms, without clothes, reported by persons of 18 years or older. Women who are pregnant are asked to report their weight before the pregnancy.
- Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023
- The questions about nutrition are asked to all people aged 1 year or older and cover the consumption of meat and fish, fruit, vegetables, sugary drinks, bread and snacks. The nutritional questions are thoroughly revised in 2023. Therefore the figures on fish, fruit and vegetable consumption for the years before 2023 cannot be compared to those from 2023 onwards.
- Consumption of sugary drinks
- People were asked about the consumption of sugary drinks in a normal week in the previous months. Detailed information about sugar consumption is obtained via the Food Consumption Survey (see table explanation).
- Sugary drinks: at least 4 glasses/day
- Drinks at least 4 glasses of sugary drinks per day, such as soft drinks, orange juice, energy drinks, orange juice, yoghurt drinks with added sugars.
- Sugary drinks: 1 to 3 glasses per day
- Drinks 1 to a maximum of 3 glasses of sugary drinks daily, such as soft drinks, orange juice, energy drinks, fruit juice, yoghurt drinks with added sugars. For children under 4 years of age, 0.5 to 3 glasses max.
- Sugary drinks: never or not weekly
- Drinks never or not every week sugary drinks such as soft drinks, orange juice, energy drinks, fruit juice, yoghurt drinks with added sugars.
- Sugary drinks: glasses per week
- Average number of glasses of sugary drinks consumed per week, such as soft drinks, orange juice, energy drinks, fruit juice, drinking yoghurt with added sugars .