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Homosexuals feel less safe and are more often victims of crime
Homosexual men and women feel less safe than heterosexuals. They are also more often the victims of common crime and experience more disrespectful treatment.
Older people born in the Achterhoek and Limburg tend to return to their native region
Many older people no longer live in their native region. Over-55s, notably those born in the south and east part of the Netherlands, tend to return to their native region later in life.
Many natives of Rotterdam live elsewhere
On 1 January 2004, there were 770 thousand people in the Netherlands who were born in Rotterdam. Four in ten natives of Rotterdam (302 thousand) are still living in the town where they were born, so...
Municipal revenue from dog registration fees projected at 58 million euro
Municipal revenue from dog registration fees is projected at 58 million euro. Dog registration fees are more common in large cities than in rural municipalities and more often in the western than in...
Integration Agreements and Firm Internationalization
Economic Integration Agreements (EIAs) can be powerful instruments for countries to stimulate the international activity of their firms.
Health-related R&D; labour volume and expenditure, 2003-2007
Research & Development activities measured in terms of labour volume and expenditure (in sector of performance)
Consumer confidence continues to rise
Dutch consumer confidence in September 2006 improved relative to August. Opinions held by Dutch consumers on the economic climate as well as their willingness to buy improved.
Overnight accommodation; capacity per region and type '00-'11
Overnight accommodation; capacity per region and type of accommodation
Consumer confidence improves further
Dutch consumer confidence improved marginally in February. The confidence index climbed 2 points to reach -10. The improvement was entirely due to an increase in consumers’ willingness-to-buy....
Electricity supplied to data centres, 2017-2019
Electricity supplied to data centres, 2017-2019
How to protect privacy in open data
Authorities publishing open data have an obligation to protect the privacy of individual citizens and companies
Modest growth Dutch economy compared to preceding quarter
The Dutch economy improved by 0.2 percent in the second quarter compared to the preceding quarter. Quarter-on-quarter economic growth had also been 0.2 percent in the first quarter.
Economy hardly improves
According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation improved slightly in November compared with October, although the recovery is still fragile. In the period between...
Consumers less pessimistic
The mood among Dutch consumers improved in August. The consumer confidence index rose by 5 points from -38 in July to -33 in August. Consumers were considerably less negative about the economic...
How to protect privacy in open data
More and more government data is presented online as open data.
Dutch increase in senior secondary vocational education passes larger than in European Union
More than 146 thousand students passed their final exams in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) in the Netherlands in 2008/’09. This increase, 35 percent compared with ten years...
Number of residents from Central and Eastern Europe up by 11 percent
Last year, the number of citizens from Central and Eastern Europe in the Netherlands increased from 160 thousand to 177 thousand. Another 75 thousand CEE citizens are estimated to work in the...
Domestic biomass consumption
Biomass consumption decreased between 2000 and 2006, then increased in 2007 and 2008 partly due to increased imports of cereals, oleaginous products, food products and wood.