Corrections and revisions

This page contains information about adjustments of figures published in StatLine.

The adjustments can consist of correction of errors or revisions based on improved methods of research or calculation. Adjustments that are part of a regular scheme of publication are not listed on this page.

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Date Publication Reason
22-03-2024

Renewable energy; consumption by energy source, technology and application

Figures of the total energy applications of biogas, co-digestion of manure and other biogas have been restored for 2021 and 2022. The final energy consumption of non-compliant biogas (according to RED II) was wrongly included in the total final consumption of these types of biogas. Figures of total biogas, total biomass and total renewable energy were not influenced by this and therefore not adjusted.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1990-2022

Correction
22-03-2024

Municipal finances from 1900

For the year 2020, a 6 million euro correction was not included in the figure for short-term debt and, as a result, also not for total debt.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1900 - 2022

Correction
15-02-2024

Employment;sex,type of employment contract,employee characteristics,SIC2008

The data related to Nationality has changed. This has to do with the fact that: - “Nationality: stateless/unknown” was zero after 2016. This was incorrect, it should have been 10 to 40 thousand jobs. - The Brexit after 2020 had not yet been included in the data, but now it is. In 2022, this will save 25 thousand jobs moving from EU14 to ‘non-EU-countries'. - Because new data of persons have been used, in some places there is sometimes a difference of a thousand jobs. This modification has no influence on the other breakdowns.
Frequency: twiceyearly, period: 2009 - 2022

Correction
14-02-2024

Deaths; underlying cause of death (shortlist), sex, age

A correction has been implemented concerning the average population for the years 2015 and 2016, there was a shift in all age categories.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1950-2022

Correction
19-01-2024

Health expectancy; since 1981

In the calculation of life expectancy without psychological complaints, for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, incorrect prevalences of ill health were used for children up to 12 years of age. That has now been adjusted. The correction leads, for children, to lower estimates of life expectancy without psychological complaints. In addition, standard errors have been added for life expectancy without psychological complaints for the ages 0, 1 and 5 years.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1981 - 2022

Correction
22-12-2023

Public corporations; liabilities, controlling government sector

In the context of the revision policy of the National accounts the annual figures 2018 and 2019 have been revised.
Frequency: yearly, period: 2017 - 2021

Revision
22-12-2023

Foreign-born employees; resident/non-resident, demographic variables

The figures for 2020 and 2021 have been corrected for the European Union (excluding the Netherlands). Jobs of foreign-born employees from the United Kingdom were accidentally added to the European Union while the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Frequency: yearly, period: 2010 - 2022

Correction
22-12-2023

Regional key figures; National Accounts

The figures published on October 25th 2023 contained incorrect figures for the Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant COROP region and the Amsterdam COROP plus region, as well as the areas these regions are part of. The publication of December 22th 2023 corrected these errors.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1995-2022

Correction
22-12-2023

Economic growth; economic activity, region, National Accounts

The figures published on October 25th 2023 contained incorrect figures for the Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant COROP region and the Amsterdam COROP plus region, as well as the areas these regions are part of. The publication of December 22th 2023 corrected these errors.
Frequency: twiceyearly, period: 1996-2022

Correction
22-12-2023

Production process; economic activity, region, National Accounts

The figures published on October 25th 2023 contained incorrect figures for the Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant COROP region and the Amsterdam COROP plus region, as well as the areas these regions are part of. Furthermore, for some industries figures were published that were not meant to be published. The publication of December 22th 2023 corrected these errors.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1995-2021

Correction
20-12-2023

Government; debt guarantees, off-balance PPP, non-performing loans

The final figures from 2010 to 2021 have been revised. The State's claims arising from export credit insurance were previously incorrectly not included as non-performing loans. Furthermore, the figures for 2020 and 2021 have also been adjusted because a number of loans to the Caribbean parts of the Dutch Kingdom were previously incorrectly not included as non-performing loans.
Frequency: yearly, period: 2010 - 2022

Correction
24-11-2023

Electricity; production and means of production

The figures for the years 2015-2020 have been revised. Figures for 2021 and 2022 have been updated. The revisions relate to the introduction of an improved analysis method in 2022, which has been carried back to previous years. Furthermore, data from a limited number of companies have been revised based on new insights. The adjustments are generally small; the adjustment in the total production and use of the various energy carriers is less than 1 percent in all years.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1998-2022

Revision
22-11-2023

Electricity and heat; production and input by energy commodity

The revisions relate to the introduction of an improved analysis method in 2022, which has been carried back to 2015. Furthermore, some of the data of a limited number of companies have been revised based on new insights. The adjustments are generally small, the adjustment of total electricity production is less than 0.1 percent in all years and the adjustment of other figures is less than 1 percent compared to the respective annual totals.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1998-2022

Revision
14-11-2023

Coal and coal products; indigenous production, imports, exports; from 1802

Figures from 2015 up to and including 2020 have been revised. The revisions relate to the introduction of an improved analysis method in 2022, which has been carried back to 2015. The differences are less then 5%. Figures of 2021 and 2022 have been updated.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1802 - 2022

Revision
22-09-2023

Government balance sheet; assets and liabilities

The financial assets and liabilities and the net saving and capital transfers of general government have been revised due to updated information.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1995 - 2022

Revision
22-09-2023

Natural gas and oil reserves on the Dutch territory; national accounts

An imperfection in the processing had been discovered, causing the final balance of natural gas reserves for the years 2016 to 2022 to be overestimated. This has been corrected so that the figures now correspond again with the data in the TNO annual reports (converted to Sm3).
Frequency: yearly, period: 1987-2022

Correction
22-09-2023

Non-financial balance sheets; national accounts

An imperfection in the processing of the physical natural gas reserves had been discovered, causing an incorrect distribution between revaluation and other changes in volume for the oil and gas reserves for the years 2016 to 2022. This has been corrected.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1995-2022

Correction
22-09-2023

Structure national net lending/borrowing; National Accounts

Figures for 2022 have been revised as a result of updated information on the government accounts. The revisions have an impact on several transactions and balancing items.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1995-2022

Revision
17-08-2023

Extraction, import and export of materials; national accounts

A correction has been made to the international trade of fossil fuels for the period 1996-2004. This series had been incompletely updated, causing some past years not to reflect the most recent figures.
Frequency: yearly, period: 1996-2021

Correction