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Statistics Netherlands aims to produce high quality statistics. To do this it collects a vast amount of data on persons, households and companies. It is important that interviewers used to collect...

After correction for seasonal effects, consumer confidence in the Netherlands is 4 points lower in October than in September. This is the second month in a row that consumer confidence has fallen; in...

The inflation rate in the Netherlands dropped further in October to 1.6 percent, the lowest rate in three years.

CBS-expert Marjolijn Jaarsma on the latest figures about export, investment and employment The publication 'Dutch Trade in Facts and Figures, 2020' provides current and relevant information about the...

The composition of families in the Netherlands has changed in the last ten years. More parents are not married and there are fewer large families.

The Dutch popluation has been less affected by crime in recent years. At the end of 2008, one in four people in the Netherlands said they had been the victim of a criminal offence in the previous...

To describe the labour force in the Netherlands per month. The unemployed labour force is the key characteristic.

An average 386 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the period May-July 2009. This is the equivalent of 4.9 percent of the labour force.

Inflation in the Netherlands was 1.2 percent in April 2014, as against 0.8 percent in March. The increase was mainly caused by price developments for motor fuels.

The volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was 3.8 percent lower in August 2014 than in August 2013. According to Statistics Netherlands, investment in residential and non-residential property...

In 2009, the value of fixed capital formation in the Netherlands was 19 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The investment ratio was exceptionally low.

The most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands show that the inflation rate in December was 1.7 percent. In November, consumer prices were 1.5 percent higher than one year previously.

The sickness absence rate among employees in the Netherlands was 4.1 percent in the second quarter of 2011.

Major metropolitan areas in the Netherlands routinely face the problem of sudden increases in crowding in town and city centres.

Inflation in the Netherlands was 1.4 percent in January versus 1.7 percent in December. Dutch inflation has slowed down considerably after a 3.1 peak in July 2013. In January, the lowest level in...

The number of job vacancies remained high in the Netherlands in the third quarter of 2008.

Nearly 15 percent of all underage children in the Netherlands lived in a one-parent family in 2014. Families within which children grow up have changed in the last fifteen years. More 0-17-year-olds...

According to figures released this week by Statistics Netherlands, the percentage of people in the Netherlands reporting that they have diabetes has risen substantially since the beginning of this...

The annual gender ratio at birth for the Netherlands is 105 boys to every 100 girls. This ‘male surplus’ is still reflected in young adults: there are more 20 to 24-year-old men than women in the...

After the Fins, the Swedes and the Danes, the Dutch are Europe’s most optimistic consumers. The relatively high level of consumer confidence in the Netherlands was mainly based on positive...

Inflation in the Netherlands was 2.0 percent in February, i.e. 0.1 percentage points up on January.

Nearly all households in the Netherlands have access to the internet. Desktop computers are losing ground to mobile devices. Nearly half of Dutch households own at least one tablet computer.

After correction for seasonal effects, consumer confidence in the Netherlands is higher in December 2005 than in November.

The average distance to the nearest after-school care facility was 900 metres in the Netherlands in 2010.

An average 321 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the period December 2007- February 2008. This is the equivalent of 4.2 percent of the labour force.