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Labour participation and economic independence of women increase in spite of crisis.

In the first quarter van 2012 there were over 570 thousand self-employed service providers in the Netherlands without personnel. Almost half was highly educated, and the most common profession was...

The number of residential building permits issued in 2006 exceeded 96 thousand, the highest number in nearly a decade.

The population of the Netherlands increased by 83 thousand persons from mid 2009 to mid 2010.

Museums; size, visits and personnel, per region and province Museums; size, visits and personnel

Dutch judges pronounced 32.6 thousand divorces in 2007. A total of 34.7 thousand underage children were involved in these divorces.

The number of new houses completed last year rose by 10 percent to more than 80 thousand.

By the end of September last year, the parents of nearly 40 thousand under age youths – more than one and a half times as many as a decade ago – were (partly) deprived of parental authority.

In 2008, the average, first-generation, non-western woman was more than one year older when she had her first child than in 1996. The average age for native Dutch women to become first-time mothers...

In 2007, an average day out cost 14 euro per person. Adjusted for price changes, this is nearly 11 percent more than in 2002. Altogether, the Dutch spent nearly 13 billion euro on recreational trips,...

Light mopeds have increased much faster in number than heavier mopeds in recent years. At the start of 2011 there were 475 thousand light and 527 thousand heavier mopeds in the Netherlands.

The amount of partial AOW benefits has tripled over the past two decades.