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The composition of families in the Netherlands has changed in the last ten years. More parents are not married and there are fewer large families.

In November 2011, retail turnover was more than 1 percent up on November 2010.

Many first-year students in higher professional education (hbo) in the Netherlands in 2012/’11 who opted for the shorter two-year programme are graduates from senior secondary vocational education...

Dutch households spent substantially more in April. Compared with April last year, household consumption was 3.8 percent higher.

More and more employees in the Netherlands have a temporary employment contract that offers the likelihood of a permanent appointment. Most of them are younger employees

The so-called top sectors include more than 260 thousand businesses. Together, they accounted for more than one third of total output value in 2010. Two thirds of spending on innovation projects by...

In recent years, the number of people from Eastern European EU countries living in the Netherlands has risen rapidly, but relatively few receive social security or unemployment (WW) benefits. By the...

Jobs Employee characteristics, job characteristics, migration background

The tax deduction for home owners amounted to more than 33 billion euro in 2011. The tax advantage for home owners totalled more than 14 billion euro.

Last year, the Netherlands exported more than 395 billion euro worth of goods and services. The value of imports amounted to 354 billion euro, resulting in a trade surplus of over 41 billion euro,...

Just over half of women with under age children had a part-time job in 2007. This is more than in 2006.

In Q1 2021, turnover in the accommodation and food services sector fell by nearly 4 percent relative to the previous quarter.

Life expectancy in the Netherlands is increasing, but people also enjoy more years without physical limitations.

More than 400 thousand houses in the Netherlands are unoccupied; 190 thousand (2.5 percent of the dwelling stock) remain occupied for more than eighteen months.

In Q1 2021, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions showed a year-on-year increase of 1.4 percent. This is mainly due to higher natural gas consumption for heating and higher electricity production.

Last year, more than six in every ten over-15s indicated to have confidence in the military, i.e. slightly more than in 2012. People have more confidence in police and judiciary, but less confidence...

Many first year students in higher professional education (hbo) in the Netherlands in 2012/’11 who opted for the shorter two-year programme are graduates from senior secondary vocational education...

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.

Nearly 10 thousand partnerships were registered in 2010 versus more than 2 thousand in 2001. Since 2001, the number of registered partnerships has risen continually.

In November 2011, retail turnover was more than 1 percent up on November 2010.

In May 2021, the average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 16.5 percent up on May 2020.

Dutch retailers generated 0.3 percent more turnover in August than one year previously.

Dutch potato farmers expect to lift more than 5 billion kilos of ware and seed potatoes in 2004, 11 percent more than in 2003. In 2003 the potato crop was substantially smaller because of the dry...

Dutch households spent 1.2 percent more on goods and services in February this year than in the same month last year.

The longer an educational programme takes to complete, the more a diploma will cost. However, the price of a diploma correlates a lot more with the previous education routes of students than the...