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 | 2023 | 175.5 | 79.2 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 15.7 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.2 | 78.8 | 13.0 | 10.8 | 13.4 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.7 | 79.7 | 14.7 | 14.2 | 18.3 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 175.2 | 79.0 | 13.5 | 12.7 | 16.1 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 174.9 | 78.6 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 13.8 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 175.4 | 79.4 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 18.6 |
| 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.
- 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.