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Two students share 'Statistics Netherlands Award 2008'
Students Matthieu Brinkhuis and Jesper Tijmstra have received the ‘Statistics Netherlands Award 2008’.
Dutch inflation rate stable in March
March’s inflation rate of 2.2 percent was the same as in February. Since September 2007, food prices have forced up inflation.
Better insight in the economy through more frequent revisions
Measuring the economy is one of the core tasks of Statistics Netherlands. This is done according to an agreed set of international guidelines and methods, assuring that the figures of the various...
Hefty increase in income support benefits
The number of people in the Netherlands claiming income support rose substantially in the first quarter of 2005. The number of unemployment benefits rose slightly, and the number of disablement...
Inflation rate down to 4.4 percent in March
The consumer price index (CPI) was 4.4 percent higher in March than in the same month last year.
Employment situation and income of graduates from intermediate vocational education (mbo), higher professional education (hbo) and university (wo) in school year 2005/'06 (Dutch only)
Custom-made tables on the employment situation and income in 2007 and 2011 of graduates from intermediate vocational education (mbo), higher professional education (hbo) and university (wo) in school...
Life expectancy forecast for 65-year-olds: 20.96 years in 2030
According to current projections by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), life expectancy at the age of 65 will stand at 20.96 years in 2030.
Fewer pesticides used in vegetable growing
Between 2000 and 2008, the use of chemical pesticides in vegetable growing, in the open and under glass has dropped sharply.
Inflation unchanged at 1.1 percent in August
Consumer price index, consumer prices were on average 1.1 percent higher in August 2004 than in August 2003. This is the same rate as in July. Cheaper potatoes, vegetables and petrol curbed inflation...
Health care practices
To publish national statistical results regarding the income statements of enterprises (practises) of health care practitioners.
Online shopping increasingly popular
Last year, 9.3 million Dutch 12 to 74-year-olds bought goods and services online, i.e. half a million more than one year previously. The proportion of Internet users who have never bought or ordered...
Sharp drop in first year teacher training students
There has been a 20 percent drop in students entering teacher training at the hbo level over the last five years. Particularly the interest in training to become an elementary school teacher has...
Equivalent full load hoursfor heating of reversible air-air heat pumps
The actual use of air to air heat pumps for heating is very uncertain.
Resilience ‘here and now’
To what extent would the Netherlands be able to absorb a major shock in the short run? Would people still be able to maintain their livelihood, and how about the most vulnerable groups?
Rise in unemployment, stagnation in participation (Dutch only)
This paper presents information on participation in the labour market of 20-64 year-olds in the Netherlands in 2010. Commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.
Consumer prices 1.7 percent up in June
The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.7 percent higher in June than in the same month last year.
Seven percent of young people have never had a job
In 2023, 7 percent of the Netherlands' 2.2 million young people aged 15 to 24 had never been in paid work
Electricity supplied to data centres, 2017-2019
Electricity supplied to data centres, 2017-2019
Unemployment further down
In the fourth quarter of 2015 unemployment declined by an average of 7 thousand a month, whereas the downward trend stalled in August and September. In December 588 thousand people in the Netherlands...
Higher labour participation rate over-55s
The labour participation rate among 55 to 65-year-olds has increased considerably over the period 2001-2008.
€25.5 billion revenue from exports to the UK
In 2018, the Netherlands earned 25.5 billion euros in exports of goods and services destined for the United Kingdom, up 4 percent on 2017.
3.6 million one-person households in 2050
The number of one-person households will have mounted up to 3.6 million in 2050, an increase by 1 million compared to the current situation. Over the next two decades, the annual increase will be 30...