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Figures released today show that turnover in the Dutch hotel and restaurant sector was 1.5 percent higher in the second quarter of 2012 than in the same quarter last year. Compared with the first...

Households spent more in July 2005 than in July 2004. The volume of domestic consumption was 0.5 percent greater than in July 2004. This is the second slight increase in a row.

Dutch consumers were far more negative about the economic situation in June than in May, but their willingness to buy improved. Overall, the mood among consumers remained about as negative as in May....

The mood among consumers has deteriorated over the past few months. This was also the case in June.

Since 2005, Statistics Netherlands has been monitoring the state of the Dutch business cycle with the aid of the Business Cycle Tracer (BCT). The BCT is based on 15 indicators. The individual changes...

The number of people switching from one job to another typically increases if the economy is booming and declines if the economy is shrinking. In recent years, more people seem prepared to accept new...

The Dutch long-term interest rate based on the return of the most recent ten-year public loan dropped further to an average of 1 percent in October, i.e. 0.1 percentage point down from September.

Producer confidence in manufacturing industry improved further and was at 1.3 in September, the highest score since March 2005. In August producer confidence was still in the negative range.

Selling prices of Dutch manufacturing industry were 0.5 percent lower in May 2014 than in May 2013. Prices of manufactured products have been down from twelve months previously for well over a year...

The latest figures published show that the number of social security benefits granted to people under the age of 65 has risen by 26 thousand over 2010. The number of social security benefits paid out...

According to the price index of existing owner-occupied houses prices of houses sold in March 2010 were on average 3.5 percent down on March 2009.

The number of job vacancies has never been so high.

Nearly 56 thousand new homes were delivered in 2010, a decrease by more than 32 percent relative to 2009. The number of owner-occupied homes deliverd last year dropped dramatically.

Three people born in the nineteenth century are currently still alive. They belong to the exclusive yet rapidly growing group of centenarians in the Netherlands.

In the second quarter of 2004 turnover in the hotels and restaurants sector was 1.5 percent down on the same quarter last year. In the first quarter turnover dropped by 0.8 percent.

460 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the first quarter of 2006.

In September 2004 the value of the exports of goods was 12 percent higher than in September 2003, reaching 23.2 billion euro. Dutch imports were also up by 12 percent, reaching 19.7 billion euro.

The vacancy indicator provides a quick indication of the trend in job vacancies in the private sector. For the first time in three years, the indicator was positive in April. In May, the indicator...

According to the latest figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment increased by 17 thousand in October 2012 so that 536 thousand people are now unemployed.

Altogether, Dutch hauliers covered 470 million km in Belgium last year. The introduction in 2016 of the kilometre levy on Belgian roads threatens to cost the Dutch road transport sector tens of...