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Population Outlook 2050: more people with a migration background
The number of inhabitants with a migration background is highly likely to increase until the year 2050.
Holidays to Paris at lowest level in 10 years
In holiday year 2016, the number of holidays spent in Paris by Dutch tourists was at its lowest level in ten years.
Provinces invest 1.1 billion euro in youth welfare
Provincial authorities have estimated the youth welfare budget for 2011 at 1.1 billion euro, i.e. 11 percent of their total provincial budget. Thus, child and youth welfare is one of the main tasks...
Trends in the Netherlands: focus on images and infographics
Corporate news article Trends in the Netherlands: focus on images and infographics
Relatively high population growth due to migration
The Netherlands had nearly 17.1 million inhabitants on 1 Januari 2017, over 110 thousand up from 1 January 2016.
Half of the Surinamese Dutch population is second generation
Nearly half of all Dutch people of Surinamese origin were also born in the Netherlands. These are primarily the children of Surinamese people who migrated to the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Maritime data: big data source with great potential
A European project group led by Stastistics Netherlands is conducting a study on AIS-data
Substantial part of school drop-outs return to school after period of non-attendance
In school year 2009/’10, approximately 30 percent of pupils who had left school prematurely in 2004/’05 had returned to school or otherwise obtained a basic qualification.
Price level measurement Caribbean Netherlands 2015 - brief survey description
The one-off publication on the relative price levels of consumptive expenditure in Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (the Caribbean Netherlands). It concerns the price levels of a representative basket...
High-tech industry exports almost €22 bn in goods
Exports of high-tech products
Many women prefer urban environment
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...
Record exam passes for mbo students
These are a few conclusions from the Jaarboek onderwijs in cijfers 2011, an annual report with statistics on education in the Netherlands (published in Dutch only) released today.
Fewer women to receive 'kitchen sink subsidy'
In 2007 over 1.1 million people received the general levy discount, as against 1.3 million at the moment of introduction in 2001. In nine out of ten cases, the recipients of this subsidy mockingly...
Job and language competence important factors for identification
Command of the Dutch language is an important identification factor for people with a non-western background. Participation on the labour market is also conducive to identification with the...
Spark: more computing capacity for big data productions
with Spark enables researchers and statisticians to process large amounts of data at high speed
Syrian immigrants often live in a family setting
A total of 29 thousand Syrians registered as residents of a Dutch municipality in 2014 and 2015. Syrian immigrants are young compared to other recent immigrants in the Netherlands and they often live...
Nearly 13 million eligible voters on 15 March
Around 13 million Dutch residents will be entitled to vote in the general election on 15 March 2017.
Inflation rate historically low in 2006
The inflation rate over 2006 averaged 1.1 percent, unprecedented since 1989.
CBDS promotes international knowledge exchange
real-time and regional statistics (e.g. Urban Data) and the use of new data sources such as Big Data
Inaugural speech Prof. Wendy Smits on flexible labour
new statistics for better mapping of the flexible labour phenomenon
Nearly 1.1 million dual nationalities in the Netherlands
On 1 January 2008, there were 1.08 million people in the Netherlands with at least one foreign nationality, i.e. nearly three times as many as on 1 January 1995. Nearly half of them also have the...
Civil court judges hear one million cases
Although the media and the public are mostly interested in criminal court cases, the number of cases heard by civil court judges is much higher. Dutch civil courts handled 1 million cases in 2008,...
Some 241 thousand people have no medical insurance
On 1 May 2006, some 241 thousand people in the Netherlands were not insured for the costs of medical care. This 1.5 percent of the Dutch population.