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Most Dutch agree on home mortgage interest deduction
Voters hardly disagree on a ban on same-sex marriages, abolition of the mortgage interest deduction and tax cuts. They do disagree on the issues of development aid and illegal immigration.
From 2016 more detailed insight into developments in consumer prices
From 2016 a more detailed classification of goods and services ECOICOP will be put into use for the National and European consumer price indices CPI and HICP.
More than one in three employees prepared to work until the age of 65
By the end of last year, more than one third of employees indicated they were ready to work until the age of 65. Considerably fewer people (only 12 percent) were prepared to continue to work beyond...
Caribbean Netherlands, Bonaire: employed population; economic activity 2010
Employed population Bonaire by economic activity
Wo bachelors require more time than hbo bachelors
In the Netherlands, students can obtain a bachelor’s degree in higher vocational education (hbo) and university (wo). Hbo students have one year extra to obtain their bachelor’s degree than...
Collectively negotiated wages 1.6 percent up in 2012
Collectively negotiated wages rose by 1.6 percent last year, i.e. 0.5 percentage points more than in 2011. The inflation rate over 2012 was 2.5 percent and has been above the increase in collectively...
Sharp drop in first year teacher training students
There has been a 20 percent drop in students entering teacher training at the hbo level over the last five years. Particularly the interest in training to become an elementary school teacher has...
Nearly 6 percent of Dutch dwellings uninhabited
On 1 January 2008 5.7 percent of the just over 7 million dwellings in the Netherlands were not officially inhabited. This does not mean that they are vacant, but that nobody is officially registered...
Collectively negotiated wage increase highest since the end of 2009
In the first quarter of this year, collectively negotiated (CAO) wages increased by 1.8 percent. The wage increase is the highest since the end of 2009, but is still far below the level of inflation.
Young people in low-income households more often overweight
Approximately 15 percent of 2 to 25-year-olds struggle with overweight. Young members of low-income households are more often overweight and have more GP contacts than their counterparts in the...
Employed labour force is ageing
The average age in the employed labour force has risen further in 2011 to just over 41 versus 36 in the early 1990s. Men in their fifties for the first time outnumbered men in their thirties.
Average weekly working hours hardly changed in recent years
The employed labour force in the Netherlands comprised nearly 7.4 million people in 2010. On average, they worked 34.4 hours a week versus 36.7 hours in 1996.
Unemployment up
According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, seasonally adjusted unemployment increased by 15 thousand in December 2013 to reach 668 thousand, i.e. 8.5 percent of the...