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frequently asked questions about IHD

According to the flash estimate of inflation carried out by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the inflation rate stands at 3.7 percent in July 2024.

Structure of national net lending/borrowing Annual data

Young adults in the Netherlands face a variety of economic challenges: employers are giving out more temporary contracts, income growth is stagnating, students have to take on more debt, there’s an...

Smoking, alcohol, height and weight, contraceptive pill Sex, age, educational level

How did the economy and labour market perform in the first quarter of 2025? CBS economist and researcher Frank Notten gives a summary.

People in the Netherlands aged 65 or older ate the most healthily in 2023.

The sixth edition of the web publication The Netherlands in Numbers has been released today.

This report presents an examination of available sales figures for biocides in countries neighbouring the Netherlands and of the conditions a national sales register would have to meet in the...

Natural capital encompasses the natural resources that society and the economy rely on, such as soil, water, air, and the ecosystems associated with their plants and animals.

The inflation rate stood at 3.2 percent in June 2024, according to the flash estimate of Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

One of the tasks of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is to look at the major challenges that we face as a society.

Import,production,earnings,fte Type of enterprise,final output

News about the transition to the new CBS Microdata Portal

A revision incorporates the latest insights from the various (new) statistics and information sources used for the national accounts. The revision means that a new (level) estimate of the national...

How does economic growth in the Netherlands affect well-being in poorer countries in the Global South?

In 2023, the Dutch agricultural sector generated 6.7 percent more income relative to the previous year. Animal output decreased slightly (-0.7 percent), while crop production saw a relatively sharp...

This year, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) launched an awareness campaign in the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, St Eustatius, and Saba) to highlight the importance of data to the general public.

This paper focuses on the analysis and classification of respondents’ stated reasons for (probable) refusal to share smartphone‐sensor data based on two closely related questionnaires fielded in...

Statistics on the number of households on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (Caribbean Netherlands)

Statistics Netherlands increasingly utilises transaction data from retail chains in its CPI. The multilateral Geary-Khamis index method is used for computing inflation figures, combined with a...

Enterprise births; enterprise deaths; enterprise population SIC 2008; legal forms

We present an index decomposition analysis (IDA) of changes in primary abiotic material use. In this framework there are four factors underlying changes in the resource consumption: substitution of...

This study proposes a GreenTransition-module for business tendency surveys. It describes managers’ assessments, expectations, plans and constraints about the green transition of their enterprise.