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Adjusted for seasonal variation, 571 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in December, an increase by 19 thousand relative to November. Unemployment has risen almost continuously for...

On average, the Dutch evaluate the safety of their neighbourhood as quite satisfactory.

Last year, 4 thousand young people – nearly one fifth of all young participating in Halt programmmes − were referred to Halt in relation to fireworks offences.

The Annual report on integration 2012 presents and overview of integration in Dutch society of people with a foreign background in terms of their socio-economic and socio-cultural position.

Shelf stacking, delivering newspapers and shop assistant are the most popular jobs secondary school pupils do next to their study.

As more married and unmarried couples with children decide to split up, the number of single parents in the Netherlands continues to grow.

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...

Prices of existing owner-occupied residential property sold in August 2010 were on average 0.4 percent lower than in August 2009. Since February 2009, house prices have been continuously lower than...

The building contract value of orders received by architects rose by just over 37 percent on average in the first half of 2014. These orders also helped push up turnover of architects’ bureaus,...

This paper describes the jobs that started in 2008 or 2009 by people claiming a social security benefit or who were not entitled to a benefit but were looking for a job. Commissioned by the Ministry...

Residents of multicultural neighbourhoods are relatively positive about police performance.

These and other facts are presented in De Nederlandse Samenleving 2012, Statistics Netherlands’ report on society in the Netherlands (available in Dutch only). The book gives a picture of prosperity...

This report includes results on the composition of the category of employed living on long-term low incomes and the factors which determine why people are trapped in a long-term low-income situation....

Adjusted for seasonal variation, 650 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in April 2013, an increase by 7 thousand relative to March this year.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 2.7 percent higher in June than in the same month one year previously.

Prices in the hotel and restaurant sector have risen by more than 40 percent since 1998.