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The intentional ending of a person’s life by someone other than the person involved at his or her explicit request.

The maximum permissible cargo weight that can be transported by a single vehicle, expressed in tonnes of 1000 kilograms.

The number of nursing days in a given period divided by the number of patients admitted.

Final decision in a court case where the suspect/parties appeared in court. Sentence by default.

Heat produced by incineration of waste, combustion of wood and gas produced by fermentation of organic material.

The value, expressed in monetary terms, of the total yield of a livestock or crop minus certain specific costs.

Unit of measurement for transport capacity, representing the transport of a tonne (1000 kilograms) of load capacity over one kilometre.

Shipping according to a time table on a regular route with transport capacity on offer publicly (or scheduled services)

Area in use for social and cultural provisions such as hospitals, universities and museums.

Situation of a person without paid work, who recently looked for work and is directly available for it.

The complex of measures that aim to guarantee some continuity in household spending capacity.

Country where an immigrant used to live before moving to the Netherlands

Area used for daytime recreation, such as zoos, open air museums, and amusement parks.

Methods used for the calculation of the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios 2016-2018

The up and downturns of the economy within a five to ten year period. Usually there are the following phases.: recovery, boom, recession, and depression.

The costs made to achieve the operating profits, that is the purchase value of the turnover, labour costs, and depreciation on assets, and other business expenditure.

A job for which there is a permanent contract and for which a fixed number of hours was agreed that is less than the number of hours in a full day’s or working week.

The yields of investments of pension or life insurance provisions which are seen as income from property received by policyholders from insurance companies, who pay the imputed pension and life...

Premiums payable by the employer on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions), ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment) as well as premium transfers.

One of the two tracks in secondary vocational training introduced by the WEB (Adult and Vocational Education Act). In this track students spend 60 percent of their time of practical training within a...

Stage of the economic cycle characterised by decreasing growth in economic activities. This is measured as a decreasing growth of the volume of the gross domestic product or a growth that is below...

Trends in the Caribbean Netherlands 2020 provides updated as well as new information, covering some aspects of life in the Caribbean Netherlands

Someone who agrees to work for another person or company from home – outside the direct control of the other party - for a preset amount, not using more than two helpers from outside the family.

Someone who died as a result of a sudden traffic-related accident on the public road involving at least one moving vehicle. People who die after 29 days following the accident are no longer counted...

Regulation allowing employers to be exempt from having to pay the legal minimum wage or the normal collective labour agreement wage to employees who perform clearly below the required level due to...