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In 2017, 4 percent of young people in the Netherlands were neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET). This percentage is fairly stable and lower than in other EU countries.

Dissertation on how and under which conditions divorce and remarriage alter the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in the Netherlands.

Dutch consumer spending was 1.0 percent up in August 2016 from August 2015. Spending on services rose considerably.

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.

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

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...

In the first quarter of 2004 the number of unemployments benefits (WW) grew again and totalled 311 thousand at the end of March but the growth rate is slowing down. The number of benefits paid under...

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...

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...

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 Dutch inflation rate rose to 1.4 percent in October. That is 0.4 percent points higher than in September. The increase is mainly due to price developments in car fuels, fresh vegetables and...

The increase in collectively negotiated wage rates was again modest in 2011. Just as in 2010, wages rose by 1.3 percent on average.

At the beginning of 2015, nearly 300 thousand cars in the Netherlands were aged 25 years or older, 14 thousand fewer than one year previously. The number of 25 to 40-year-old diesel and LPG-powered...

In this paper the question is addressed how alternative data sources, such as administrative and social media data, can be used in the production of official statistics. Since most surveys at...

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.

In November 2020, altogether 3,174 people died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

In Q2 2020, turnover in the motor vehicle and motorcycle industry was over 25 percent lower than in the same quarter last year. This is the largest contraction in more than 25 years.

The average age in the employed labour force has risen further in 2011 to just over 41 versus 36 in the early 1990s. Men in their fifties for the first time outnumbered men in their thirties.

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