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As a consequence of the credit crisis, falling share prices have resulted in continued losses for Dutch pension funds and insurance companies since the third quarter of 2007.

Nearly 960 thousand people in the Netherlands were self-employed in 2009, of whom 630 thousand did not employ others. In spite f the economic crisis they hardly worked less last year.

Men have more positive emotions than women: they are more calm and composed, and are often happier. Women find life more meaningful

In the period 2006-2008, nearly 10 thousand businesses – 16.7 percent of all businesses in the Netherlands employing 10 or more people – have innovated their products. The proportion of businesses...

The Dutch hold a positive attitude towards saving. In April 2011, the proportion of Dutch consumers who thought their financial situation would allow them to put money aside in the next 12 months was...

Dutch retail turnover in May was nearly 2 percent down on May 2009.

As a result of the economic crisis, unemployment in the non-western population in the Netherlands has risen in 2009 for the first time since 2005.

The volume of domestic consumption was 0.7 percent smaller in February 2004 than in February 2003. This was the twelfth month in a row that consumption expenditure was lower than twelve months...

The loading of oil products for fuelling ships, and airplanes in border crossing traffic.

In October, the number of business services providers anticipating turnover growth in the next three months largely outnumbered those anticipating a decrease.

According to the latest figures released by Statistics Netherlands, seasonally adjusted unemployment fell to 683 thousand in August, i.e. 8.6 percent of the labour force.

At the end of 2011 nearly 230 thousand people in the Netherlands were in reintegration programmes provided by municipal government. This is more than 17 thousand fewer than twelve months previously.

The number of years someone of a certain age still is expected to live, according to a life table.

The decrease in the number of marriage migration came to an end in 2008. Just as in 2007, 8 percent of people in the Netherlands with a foreign background who married, did so with a partner who...

A group of people born in the same year.

Storage space in the Netherlands for goods on which import duties and levies still have to be paid.