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Individuals are not legally required to take part, but of course, we hope that you will be willing to do so.

Statistics Netherlands is subject to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a law that helps protect the privacy of citizens.

Statistics Netherlands has its own Data Protection Officer (DPO) who supervises the application of and compliance with the GDPR within the organisation.

Your name and address were chosen at random from a large database that includes all households in the Netherlands: the Personal Records Database.

Statistics Netherlands complies with the strictest data privacy requirements, and to ensure that this continues to be the case, an annual review is conducted by an external organisation.

Much of the data that we have made available is increasingly being used by civil servants at a municipal, provincial and national level

The professional independence of Statistics Netherlands is essential in order to ensure trust in public statistics.

How can I process the data I collect about citizens both safely and with integrity

The objective of the seminar was to bring together researchers from statistical offices and academic scientists in order to exchange knowledge and present the latest methods and techniques in the...

This monitor offers an insight into the range and number of existing cyber security issues, and what businesses and individuals are doing to counter them

all businesses and public authorities in the European Union are required to monitor which data they collect and why, and how long data are kept on record.

the latest developments in the content and the methodology of statistics.

infrastructure, data processing and privacy protection

independent audits of statistical processes

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs launched the ‘CBS/EZ Departmental Data Centre’

Statistics Netherlands is focusing more and more on the use of big data for official statistics production.

More and more government data is presented online as open data.

Statistics Netherlands recently opened its doors to share its knowledge about Open Data with various authorities.

Increasing amounts of government data are published online as open data.

Authorities publishing open data have an obligation to protect the privacy of individual citizens and companies

Statistics Netherlands recently opened its doors to share its knowledge about Open Data with various authorities

Measures we have taken to safeguard your privacy.