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People experience a fairly short period of happiness when they become first-time parents. After the baby is born, the feeling of happiness gradually fades and 1 to 2 years after childbirth it appears...

In 2019, expenditure on care and welfare, including child care, amounted to 106.2 billion euros.

The Dutch government spent 2.2 billion euro less on disability benefits for young people (Wajong benefits) in 2010. This accounts for one fifth of the country’s total spending on disability benefits.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.6 percent higher in June than in the same month last year.

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 20 - 24 June 2011 (Week 25).

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 22-26 March 2010 (Week 12).

In November 2020, there were 378 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 4.0 percent of the labour force.

In week 25 (15 to 21 June inclusive), 84 companies and institutions including sole proprietorships were declared bankrupt.

In 2010 Dutch passenger cars averaged 13.3 thousand kilometres a year in the Netherlands and abroad. This is 2.1 percent less than in 2009.

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 21 - 25 March 2011 (Week 12).

Week 20 (14-18 May 2007)

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 22-26 September 2008 (Week 39.

Last year, nearly 15 thousand first-time requests for asylum were submitted in the Netherlands, an increase by 11 percent relative to 2008. More than half of asylum seekers came from Iraq or Somalia.

IIn week 21 (working week 18 to 22 May inclusive), 85 companies and institutions including sole proprietorships were declared bankrupt.

Unemployment has fallen for the fifth consecutive month in September.

An assessment of the contribution of the Dutch public export credit insurance facility to Dutch GDP and employment

Providers of business services were slightly less optimistic in May about their future turnover than in April.

In August, the number of business services providers expecting turnover to increase in the next three months outnumbered those expecting a decrease. The balance was + 9 in August versus - 4 in July.

Collectively agreed (CAO) wages rose by 3.3 percent in 2008 relative to one year previously. The increase is much more substantial than in 2007, when wages rose by 2.1 percent.

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 22 - 29 September 2014 (Week 39).

At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs data have been complied on participation in the labour market of 20 - 64 year-olds.

In January, confidence among Dutch consumers has hardly changed.

Persons suspected of criminal activities one and a half times as often fall victim to criminal offences as people who have never been suspected of criminal activities.