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Minimum wage
The legal minimum on 1 January for the wage of a fulltime employee.
Dependent labour force
The section of the labour force pertaining to people working in paid employment.
Tourism in Dutch Caribbean in 2015
This publication contains an account of tourism on the islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint-Eustatius in 2015.
Rhine and Meuse river
Waterways originating from the river Rhine and the river Meuse, including their tidal rivers.
ZFW
Abbreviation of the Dutch law: Compulsory health insurance act (ZFW).
Reduced working hours
A reduction of working hours based on the Buitengewoon Besluit Arbeidsverhoudingen 1945 art 8.1.
Partner (household)
Someone who forms a couple with someone else in a private household.
Passenger-kilometre
Unit of measurement for transport of persons, representing the transport of a passenger over one kilometre.
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).
Trend follower
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.
Person with a Dutch background
Person of whom both parents were born in the Netherlands.
Other private social benefits
These are benefits paid by employers out of special reserves, which are segregated from their other reserves.
Saving (of a sector)
The part of the disposable income of a sector that is not used for consumer spending.
Degree of capacity utilisation of machinery/installations
The degree to which a company used its means of production.
Land use, classification
Functional classification of mutually exclusive categories which together encompass the entire surface of the Netherlands.
Heavy drinker
Someone who drinks six glasses of alcohol or more a day at least once a week.
Arts student
Someone who has signed up for a course in the arts of more than twenty weeks.
Early retirement fund
Foundation carrying out the early retirement scheme for a given company or branch of industry.
Labour relationship
The distinction between jobs with a fixed contract and jobs where the contract is flexible.
Economically independent
Situation in which personal income from primary sources exceeds 70 percent of the net minimum wage.
Producer confidence
Mood indicator for short-term developments in industrial production based on the opinions and expectations of producers.
Biogas
Gas derived through active fermentation of organic material from sewage purification (sewage gas), landfill gas and other biomass fermentation.