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Sustainability Monitor of the Netherlands 2014

On all three islands making up the Dutch Caribbean, inflation was lower in the third quarter of 2012 than in the previous quarter. On Bonaire inflation was 2.3 percent, on St Eustatius it was 4.6...

In 2008, more than half of people in the Netherlands who use the internet use it to listen to the radio or watch TV, and nearly half download newspapers.

Key figures criminal law: subdistrict court cases, district court cases and settlements under the Mulder Act

In the second quarter of 2004, the Dutch retail trade saw its turnover go down by 2.7 percent compared to the same quarter of 2003. It is the fifth quarter in a row that the turnover of Dutch retail...

The total value of assets of pension funds and insurance companies hardly changed in the second quarter of 2004 from the first quarter. These institutions owned assets worth a total 830 billion euro...

Value added tax was introduced in the Netherlands in 1969. In that year it generated just over 2.5 billion euro in revenue; nearly 40 years later VAT revenue amounted to nearly 43 billion euro.

In 2004 turnover in the Dutch retail trade was down by 2.1 percent on 2003. It is the second year in a row that the turnover of retailers fell. The prices in the shops were 1.5 percent lower than in...

In February 2006, households spent 2.6 percent more on goods and services than a year earlier. It is the highest growth rate in recent years.

Dutch retailers generated 1.5 percent more turnover in January this year than twelve months previously. Retail prices were 2 percent up. Petrol stations largely accounted for both the increase in...

Retail turnover in the second quarter of this year was 5.1 percent down on the second quarter of 2008.

Household spending on goods and services was 2.3 percent down in January 2013 from January 2013. Domestic household consumption has been continuously down from twelve months previously for eighteen...

Dutch retailers generated almost 2 percent less turnover in October than one year previously.

In December, Dutch retailers faced a more than 3 percent loss of turnover compared to December 2008.

Household spending on goods and services was 2.0 percent down in April 2012 on April 2011. The decline was approximately the same in March (1.8 percent). Consumer spending has been continuously below...