Search results

Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.

Early this year, 90 thousand employees living in Belgium or Germany were working in the Netherlands. The number of cross-border commuters has increased considerably over the past decade.

More than 146 thousand students passed their final exams in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) in the Netherlands in 2008/’09. This increase, 35 percent compared with ten years...

Turnover in the business services sector was down again in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with twelve months previously. The fall was also larger than in the preceding quarter. Although opinions...

Euthanasia should under certain circumstances be allowed, according to 87 percent of the adult population in the Netherlands.

The mood among Dutch consumers was less negative in July than in June. The consumer confidence indicator improved by 8 points to reach -32. The consumer confidence indicator had reached an...

320 thousand income support benefits were being paid to people up to the age of 65 years at the end of September 2012. This is one thousand more than in the previous quarter, and 6 thousand more than...

New figures show that 314 thousand people younger than 65 years were claiming income support benefit at the end of September 2011.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) provides reliable statistical information and data to produce insight into social issues, thus supporting the public debate, policy development and decision-making while...

The volume of exports of goods increased by nearly 1 percent in November relative to twelve months previously. In October, exports shrunk for the first time in nearly two years. The volume of imports...

Dissertation on factors that explain why some adolescents are more likely to leave school early than others. Theoretical frameworks and methodology from sociolological, economic, criminologic and...

Inflation on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba has hovered around zero percent for nearly two years.

The number of welfare benefits paid to people aged under 65 in the second quarter of 2006 was down by nearly 5 thousand.

Some 700 thousand people in the Netherlands say they have plans to live abroad for a period of at least eight months.

The increase in collectively negotiated wages (CAO) was 2.0 percent in 2007. The wage increase is the same as in 2006, although there is a difference.

There were 13 fewer bankruptcies in March 2020 than in the previous month. The trend has been relatively stable in recent years.

Greenhouse gas emissions were 6 percent higher last year than in 2009 and have risen for the first time in seven years. Greenhouse gas emissions are only 1 percent below the level of 1990, the base...

In 2010, a schooling path ending in a university master’s degree in the Netherlands cost 153 thousand euro. It is the first time that the costs are lower than in the previous year.

Labour price index; wage costs per hour worked Branches SIC 2008

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has decreased.

Dutch consumer spending on goods and services was equal in April compared to April 2015.