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Smart Services Campus Heerlen: breeding ground for new productivity and innovations
Monday 12 September marked the launch of the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen.
The Macroscope project: easier large-scale research using CBS microdata
Quicker, easier and more comprehensive - researchers who make use of microdata from Statistics Netherlands will soon benefit from a major upgrade.
Public awareness campaign This is us!
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has launched a campaign to improve public awareness about data. CBS is responsible for collecting data and compiling statistics for the Caribbean Netherlands. It produces...
CBS visits primary schools on Bonaire to teach children about data
This year, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) launched an awareness campaign in the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, St Eustatius, and Saba) to highlight the importance of data to the general public.
How can we support the victims of crime better?
What is the impact of crime on its victims?
Young CBS talent wins innovation award
Close to 40 ideas were submitted for the innovation award. The jury selected four.
Toward a data-driven European economy
The European Data Forum in Eindhoven brought together big data experts
How resilient is the Netherlands?
On 19 May 2021 CBS published the Monitor of Well-being & Sustainable Development Goals 2021, which provides a broad description of the trends in well-being in our country.
Dutch government policy from the perspective of the SDGs
In May 2016 the Dutch Cabinet presented its approach to implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Netherlands.
CBS tightens criteria for remote access to CBS databases
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) asked a committee of independent scientific experts to investigate external researchers’ use of remote access to consult CBS’ databases.
Statistics Netherlands, city of Eindhoven join forces to launch first CBS Urban Data Center
CBS and the city of Eindhoven have embarked on a unique joint project
Climate change is firmly on the agenda in Zwolle
What existing data can be used to adapt to climate change, and what new data in this field does the region of Zwolle need most?
CBS launching Center for Big Data Statistics
Statistics Netherlands is focusing more and more on the use of big data for official statistics production.
European study: uniform data validation rules
a European research programme aimed at improving data exchange by a uniform set of validation rules
Innovating statistics with data challenges
The end of last year saw the second edition of the Big Data Meets Survey Science conference online: the BigSurv20.
Coronavirus pandemic increases urgency of new data sources for CBS
Society’s need to describe complex phenomena - such as the consequences of an economic crisis - is growing exponentially.
Quinten Meertens’ breakthrough in how we think about bias
‘A breakthrough in how we think about bias’ – that is how professor Jaap van den Herik at Leiden University described Statistics Netherlands (CBS) researcher Quinten Meertens’ PhD thesis...
CBS rises to 2nd position in open data inventory
Open data makes public government (open) data easily reusable and improves government transparency
CBS constantly looking for new data sources
In order to carry out its statutory task, CBS is constantly looking for new data sources
A plea for consistent income inequality figures
There is a lot of social debate about income inequality. Has income inequality increased over the longer term or not?
SAE 2016: Small Area Estimation in current statistical practice
The focus of this year’s conference was on the application of small area estimation at national statistical offices.
Canada, UK and Sweden replicate innovation lab
Interacting and sharing ideas on an international scale
Sensor Data Challenge 2021: experimenting with smart sensors
The third Sensor Data Challenge took place on 22 and 23 April 2021.
The Circular Economy: towards a lower use of resources
a statistical overview of the circular economy’s effects on the environment and raw material consumption
CBS and Utrecht University start innovative survey network
For a number of years now, CBS has been collaborating intensively in many areas with Dutch universities