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Once in every four calendar years a leap day is intercalated. The year 2008 is a leap year, but the extra day appears to have little effect on the economy.

In 2013, the number of children attending day care centres has fallen for the second year in a row. On 31 December 2011, 322 thousand 0 to 3-year-old children attended day care centres versus 284...

The Dutch retail sector recorded 11 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales, however, went down by 0.5 percent.

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has increased. There were 41 more bankruptcies in February than in the previous month.

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 Good health and well-being. SDG 3 ensures healthy lives and promotes well-being for everyone. Everybody must have the opportunity to live in good...

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

On average, European hauliers made 158 thousand international road transport trips carrying loads across one or more European borders every day in 2014. Dutch transport companies accounted for more...

In January 2023, CBS will start publishing the CPI a few days earlier. Why is that, and what does it mean?

Dutch people aged 12 years or older – including those who never drink - drink 1 unit of alcohol a day on average.

According to Statistics Netherlands, 524 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) were declared bankrupt in September 2014, 59 more than in the preceding month. The increase was...

In August 2004, turnover in the Dutch retail trade was down by 5.6 percent on August 2003. This decrease is largely due to a less favourable shopping day pattern in August 2004 compared to 2003....

In January 2023, the average daily output of the Dutch manufacturing industry was 2.9 percent lower than in January 2022.

Compensation of employees, wages, labour volumes of employees economic activities, full-time and part-time jobs

The economic climate in February is more negative, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

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.

Although most children in the Netherlands grow up with two parents, one in seven children experience the divorce of their parents. After a divorce, the contact between children and their fathers...