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Employee who is not a civil servant but whose salary is linked to civil servants’ salaries.
Sickness absence rate
The ratio between the number of cases of sick leave and the number of employees.
Pension premiums
Premiums paid on the basis of collective contracts with pension funds or life insurance companies.
Social benefits in cash
Benefits paid by social insurance institutions, financed by premiums (unemployment, disability, sickness, old age).
Reduced working hours
A reduction of working hours based on the Buitengewoon Besluit Arbeidsverhoudingen 1945 art 8.1.
Other taxes on production
Taxes on production payable by the producers regardless of the volume or value of the products sold.
Rhine and Meuse river
Waterways originating from the river Rhine and the river Meuse, including their tidal rivers.
Passenger-kilometre
Unit of measurement for transport of persons, representing the transport of a passenger over one kilometre.
ZFW
Abbreviation of the Dutch law: Compulsory health insurance act (ZFW).
Arts student
Someone who has signed up for a course in the arts of more than twenty weeks.
Land use, classification
Functional classification of mutually exclusive categories which together encompass the entire surface of the Netherlands.
Producer confidence
Mood indicator for short-term developments in industrial production based on the opinions and expectations of producers.
Early retirement fund
Foundation carrying out the early retirement scheme for a given company or branch of industry.
Steel oven gas
Gas derived as by-product from the processing of iron to steel in steel ovens.
Other private social benefits
These are benefits paid by employers out of special reserves, which are segregated from their other reserves.
Biogas
Gas derived through active fermentation of organic material from sewage purification (sewage gas), landfill gas and other biomass fermentation.
Duration
The weighted average time of the payment of interest and redemption of a group of bonds.
Saving (of a sector)
The part of the disposable income of a sector that is not used for consumer spending.
Labour relationship
The distinction between jobs with a fixed contract and jobs where the contract is flexible.
Heavy drinker
Someone who drinks six glasses of alcohol or more a day at least once a week.
Economically independent
Situation in which personal income from primary sources exceeds 70 percent of the net minimum wage.
Support unit (creative ed.)
Institutions performing work for the coordination and support of classes in schools and community centres.
Profit from enterprise
Fiscal profit from enterprise plus the allowance for wealth and investments
Towing barge
Vessel designed for shipping freight, without its own mechanical propulsion but specially designed to be towed.
Degree of capacity utilisation of machinery/installations
The degree to which a company used its means of production.