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The balancing item covers current transactions between resident and non-residents, that is, transactions involving goods, services and income. The latter include primary income (capital gains and...

Material of little value to the company that the company wants to dispose of (Environmental Management Act, C.1, art. 1.1). Exceptions are: radioactive waste; hazardous waste registered with the...

The SOI is the standard classification of educational programs in the Netherlands. An SOI sector is the focal area of a program. It comprises the following sectors: general, pedagogy, humanities...

A group of participants in the economic process with the same position and function in the economy. The residential units that make up the total economy, according to the European system of national...

All enterprises and institutions active in the Netherlands are included in a collective labour agreement (CAO in Dutch) sector. The division into CAO sectors is based on the position of employees in...

The place in the classification of educational programs by level according to the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI) 2003. This level is based on the minimum educational attainment...

The classification of surrounding address density based on five categories: - extremely urbanised: 2,500 addresses or more per square kilometre; - strongly urbanised: 1,500 to 2,000 addresses per...

An enterprise with direct foreign investments is an enterprise in which an investor from another country owns at least 10 percent of the regular shares or votes or their equivalent. This relates to a...

Goods acquired for the purpose of reselling them without further processing. Includes costs of single use packing material, import duties, costs of temporary storage. Excludes discounts, bonuses,...

In January 2021, altogether 4,387 people died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

In civil law: decision by a judge that does not lead to a temporary or permanent settlement of a conflict, or final decision by a judge on a petition. In administrative law: one-sided decision by an...

All costs connected with employing workers. These include compensation of employees, training costs and a number of other costs. The compensation of employees consists of two components: wages and...

The institutional sector of the economy that makes most of its output available for free or for prices that are not economically significant. The costs are mainly financed from payments by units from...

As a result of the economic crisis, unemployment in the non-western population in the Netherlands has risen in 2009 for the first time since 2005.

The classification of occupations used by Statistics Netherlands until 2012 is based on type of work. In the 1992 classification the level and field of the required skills are the main criteria. The...

Revenues minus costs not related to normal operational management, such as costs resulting from reorganisations, book profits and losses from the sale of a company or other assets, including ...

A legal person in which two or more persons (members) bind together for a certain purpose. Any profits the association makes may not be divided among the members, but must be used for the purpose...

The category gross wages and salaries refers to employees on the payroll and includes - wages including employees' contributions to social insurances minus sick pay; - bonuses, holiday allowances,...

The regular payment in money that belong to the gross wage applicable for social insurance schemes plus the value of the untaxed vacation certificates and savings schemes, the employee’s contribution...

Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an institution or private household in the Netherlands.

Contributions by the government meant to increase the pension schemes reserves are recorded as other capital transfers of the government to pension funds. Subsequently these amounts are imputed to...

The association looks after the interest of the museum sector and acts as the representative organ of Dutch museums. The museum is active in stimulating museum visits and developing knowledge and...

The result of the exceptional income minus the exceptional expenses. Exceptional income includes profits that do not come out of regular business transactions. For instance differences in exchange...

The law provides older and partially disabled persons who were formerly self-employed with a minimum guaranteed income, when their income is permanently below the social minimum and who have ended...

The number of years a person of a certain age can expect to live in good health, assuming that the age specific chances on mortality and ill-health remain constant. Good health can be defined in four...