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Half of the self-employed are service providers without personnel
In the first quarter van 2012 there were over 570 thousand self-employed service providers in the Netherlands without personnel. Almost half was highly educated, and the most common profession was...
Share of teleworking employees growing
Over the past years, the share of employees working from home has risen to nearly one in three in 2012. Half of employees could take leave whenever they wanted and more than one in five could set...
Spending on security growing faster than GDP
Spending on security governance in the Netherlands rose by more than 6 percent per year on average in the period 2002-2008. This was nearly one and a half times the growth rate of the gross domestic...
Netherlands drifting further behind in R&D
In 2009, the Dutch public sector spent 0.88 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), i.e. the total value of all goods and services produced in the Netherlands, on R&D. The average for the EU 27...
Criminal law; key figures 1994-2016
Key figures criminal law: subdistrict court cases, district court cases and settlements under the Mulder Act
Consumer price increase remains at 1.2 percent in May
The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.2 percent higher in May than in the same month last year.
Number of overnight tourists up to 46 million in 2019
The number of guests staying in Dutch overnight accommodations rose to 46.3 million in 2019.
More parents receive childcare allowance
Last year, 462 thousand parents in the Netherlands received a childcare allowance, 77 thousand more than in 2007. Total costs of childcare amounted to 3.2 billion euro; parents received 2.6 billion...
Well-educated women have highest life expectancy
Lower educated people not only live shorter lives, their healthy life expectancy is shorter too. On average, men with only primary education enjoy no more than 50 years in good health, whereas...
Inst. investors; investments excluding shares in investment funds 1998-2017
Investments of institutional investors. Institutional investors; shares in Dutch investment funds.
Dutch patent applicants and applications
The statistics on patent applicants and applications from the Netherlands describe which companies from the Netherlands are applying for patents, broken down by company class, size class, country of...
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Substantial increase tourist tax revenue over the past five years
In 2013, tourist tax is anticipated to put 162 million euros in the municipal coffers, i.e. an increase by 36 percent relative to 2008. The higher revenue is mainly due to higher rates.
Richer households cause more greenhouse gas emissions
The production of goods and services bought by households cause greenhouse gas emissions. On average a household in the Netherlands causes over 22 tons of CO2 equivalents in emissions.