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A household’s spendable income is the net annual amount it has available to spend. In general terms, it is gross income minus premiums and taxes.

Dutch consumers spent 1.7 percent more in October 2019 than in October 2018.

Statistics Netherlands publishes national trends and indices based on monitoring data from the Nem.

In 2011 wind energy, hydro power, solar power and biomass produced 12 billion kWh of electricity. This is almost 10 percent of the Dutch consumption of electricity and close to the production in 2010.

Provincial authorities have estimated the youth welfare budget for 2011 at 1.1 billion euro, i.e. 11 percent of their total provincial budget. Thus, child and youth welfare is one of the main tasks...

Dutch consumers borrowed 10.4 billion euro in 2007, the same amount as in 2006.

Last year, 59 percent of companies employing 10 at least 10 persons allowed teleworking. The sectors financial services and ICT promote large-scale teleworking.

According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), seasonally adjusted unemployment was reduced by 21 thousand to 653 thousand in November 2013, i.e. 8.2 percent in the...

Turnover in the sector accommodation and food services rose by 2.1 percent in Q1 2018 relative to the preceding quarter.

Online purchases by Dutch consumers in foreign EU webshops, big data research

The Director General of Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Mr Tjark Tjin-A-Tsoi, will be appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Sanquin as of 1 April 2020.

Dutch wind turbines collectively generated 7.6 billion kWh of electricity in 2015.

More and more government data is presented online as open data.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has given its website a fresh new look

This survey covers the weekly publication of the prices for motor fuels at petrol stations. Prices are shown in euros per litre of fuel per day.

Tourism accounts for a substantial part of employment on the islands of Caribbean Netherlands. On Bonaire and Saba, 20 percent of jobs are tourism-related, versus 12 percent on St Eustatius. The...

In 2011 over half million Dutch parents received child care allowances. The costs of child care per parent averaged close to 7,300 euro. The parents themselves paid nearly 2,000 euro of this. The...

The average burden of taxes and social insurance contributions in the European Union (EU) was 39 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011, but there are considerable differences between...