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) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Informal care giver (%) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Hours of informal care per week (number) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Strained informal care givers (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Value | 2025 | 175.7 | 79.7 | 14.9 | 10.4 | 19.2 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 175.4 | 79.3 | 14.0 | 9.1 | 16.7 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 176.0 | 80.1 | 15.8 | 11.8 | 21.8 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Value | 2025 | 175.4 | 79.5 | 14.8 | 10.6 | 19.0 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 175.1 | 79.1 | 14.0 | 9.3 | 16.7 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 175.6 | 79.9 | 15.7 | 11.9 | 21.5 |
| Pre-primary and primary education | Value | 2025 | 169.1 | 77.2 | 13.3 | . | . |
| Pre-primary and primary education | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 168.1 | 75.7 | 10.5 | . | . |
| Pre-primary and primary education | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 170.1 | 78.8 | 16.8 | . | . |
| Master degrees and doctorate | Value | 2025 | 176.6 | 77.2 | 14.3 | 6.0 | 22.4 |
| Master degrees and doctorate | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 176.0 | 76.3 | 12.4 | 4.4 | 16.5 |
| Master degrees and doctorate | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 177.2 | 78.1 | 16.5 | 7.6 | 29.6 |
| Poverty: not poor and not almost poor | Value | 2025 | 174.8 | 79.2 | 14.5 | 10.5 | 19.7 |
| Poverty: not poor and not almost poor | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 174.5 | 78.8 | 13.7 | 9.3 | 17.4 |
| Poverty: not poor and not almost poor | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2025 | 175.0 | 79.6 | 15.3 | 11.7 | 22.2 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||
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 March 13, 2026:
The figures for 2025 have been added. The table has been expanded with information on 'Drug use, excluding cannabis' and 'Use of drugs, total' (in the past month, past year, and ever). Finally, the personal characteristic of poverty (categorized as poor, almost poor, and not poor and not almost poor) has been added.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2026 will be published in the second quarter of 2027.
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.
- Giving informal care, 16 years or older
- Informal care (in Dutch: mantelzorg) is care given to an acquaintance in ones surroundings, e.g. a partner, child or friend, if this person is sick for a long time, infirm or handicapped. Informal care can consist of doing housework, washing and dressing, companionship, transportation, arranging financial matters and so on. Informal care is not paid.
- Informal care giver
- Percentage of persons giving informal care. The informal care has lasted for at least three months already, or there must be at least 8 hours of care per week.
- Hours of informal care per week
- The average number of hours of care given per week, by an informal care giver.
- Strained informal care givers
- The percentage of informal care givers who report fairly heavily strained, very heavily strained or being overloaded by that care.