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The value of all goods brought into the Dutch economy for consumption. This is the case when import duties and national taxes have been paid. For imports from EU countries this is the value of the...

Week 15 (9-13 April 2007)

Many older people in the Netherlands still remember times of food shortage. Today’s supermarkets, specialist food shops and market stalls sell an unprecedented range of products. At the same time,...

The ratio between the number of cases of sick leave started in the observation period and the number of employees. The duration of the observation period influences the reporting frequency which...

Primary income distribution refers to income formation that results directly from the production process, and the distribution of it over the production factors (labour, capital) and government...

The premiums paid by employers to social security on the gross wages. These include imputed and actual social premiums and actual pension premiums, and payments made directly by the employer.

Pupil in regular primary education who belongs to a disadvantaged category. In order to calculate the financial contribution to schools, each pupil is assigned a weight. Special needs pupils are...

Introduced on 1 April 2001 when the Immigration Law of 2000 came into force. The permit is valid for a maximum of five years. The permit indicates whether or not the holder has a work permit, and if...

or persons and households this is wage and salary including employee-paid and employer-paid premiums for social insurance, bonuses, save-as-you-earn deductions and remuneration for labour carried out...

The balance of payments received and made due to services and income transactions with other countries. This consists of the export surplus, the balance of wages paid by and received from other...

An institution engaged in the following activities: - providing credit through supplying cash loans, credit by purchasing in instalments or deferred payments, revolving credit and credit card...

The compensation of banks for financial intermediation, i.e. the acquisition, transformation and issuing of financial assets. The compensation for these services is implicitly included in the...

Valuing the flows and stocks in an accounting period at the prices of a previous period. This makes it possible to decompose the changes in the value of the flows and stocks into price and volume...

Non-residential care, support, or recreation provided for disabled people during the day. The aim is to increase and maintain the independence and integration of disabled people by social and...

Sub sector of the institutional sector government. This section of the government consists of the state's governing bodies and other central institutions whose competence covers the entire economic...

The standard hourly wage is calculated by dividing the weekly wage by 1/52 of the annual contractual working hours. In it the weekly working hours, the number of official holidays (six calendar days...

October’s inflation rate dropped marginally to 2.6 percent.

In 2008, nearly 60 percent of women participated on the labour market. After 2005, female labour participation has annually risen by 2 percentage points.

The latest figures show that the inflation rate remained stable in August. Consumer prices were on average 2.6 percent higher than one year previously, just as in July.

A building intended for housing which, from a construction perspective, is intended for permanent housing by a private household. It meets all criteria applicable to dwellings, except for having a...

Units with a complete administration but without legal status that behave like corporations. They supposedly have independent power of decision. These are mainly fairly large enterprises without...