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At the request of RWI (Council for Work and Income), Statistics Netherlands has composed a set of tables with information on the size and composition of the unutilised supply of labour among people...

335 thousand people in the Netherlands were claiming income support at the end of September 2004. This is 3 thousand fewer than at the end of the previous quarter. The number started to fall in the...

Number of employee jobs International trade in goods, ownership of company (UCI)

Turnover of removal companies in the Netherlands was 4 percent lower in the third quarter of 2010 than in the third quarter of 2009.

Amount of waste collected by the municipal authorities broken down by province, size class and degree of urbanization

In school year 2013/’14, 70 thousand pupils (5 percent) received special needs primary education or attended a special needs primary school in the Netherlands. A new law on appropriate...

Patents, patent applications EPO and NLOC Size class of applicant

In October, 536 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed after adjustment for seasonal effects, i.e. 17 thousand more than in September. Currently, 6.8 percent of the Dutch labour force are...

In 2007, nearly 120 thousand households (just under 2 percent of the total number of households in the Netherlands) had lived on the minimum social income level for a period of at least four years.

For the third in a row, the inflation rate was stable at 2.5 percent in March 2012.

Macro-economic statistics published by Statistics Netherlands must be consistent. The figure for GDP calculated according to the income approach, for example, must be the same as the figure...

Dutch inflation dropped to 1.0 percent in May, i.e. 0.1 percentage points lower than in April. At the same time, the inflation rate in the eurozone has risen.

As of April 2018, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has made upward adjustments of a few percent to the Consumer Price Index (CPI and HICP) for men’s, women’s and children’s clothing.

The purchasing power of the employed labour force in the Netherlands rose by 2.5 percent in 2009. This is larger than the increase in 2008.

In October, 500 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt. This is 130 fewer than in September this year, but still substantially more than...

Happiness, satisfaction with life, Economic self-reliance, financial independence

Transport; jobs, labour volume, costs and revenues, financial results Land, water and air transport, warehousing and services for transport

According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, the inflation rate has risen to 2.8 percent in May. In April, consumer prices were on average 2.6 percent up from one year...

Collectively negotiated wage rates in the Netherlands were 1.2 percent higher on average in the second quarter of 2010 than twelve months previously. This is the smallest rise since 2005.

In recent years, the importance of the households sector in measuring economic welfare has increasingly been recognised, and the development of additional indicators to measure inequalities is...

Dutch inflation was down to 1.5 percent in July 2007.