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Large rise in number of hotel guests
Dutch hotels accommodated 19.2 million guests in 2010, 7.7 percent more than in 2009. The number was nearly the same as in record year 2007.
Manufacturing capacity utilisation increasing again
Following an unprecedented relapse in the first half of 2009, capacity utilisation in the Dutch manufacturing industry started to rise again at the beginning of 2010. The manufacturing industry in...
Labour force
People: - who have paid work (employed labour force), or - who don't have paid work, recently looked for work and are directly available for it (unemployed labour force).
Private sector more cautious about investing in knowledge and know-how
Due to the economic crisis, the Dutch private sector invested less in knowledge and know-how in 2009 than in 2008. Although the economy showed signs of recovery in 2010, investments in knowledge and...
Substantial increase male life expectancy
The life expectancies at birth for Dutch men and women were 79.2 and 82.9 years respectively in 2011. Male life expectancy has improved rapidly and as a result, the life expectancy gender gap has...
Net labour participation rate
The percentage of the employed labour force in the population (labour force and not in the labour force).
Unemployment rate
The unemployed labour force as a percentage of the (employed and unemployed) labour force.
More and more digital TVs
Seven in ten households have a digital television set; the rate is three times as high as half a decade ago. TVs with Internet access are also becoming more and more common in Dutch households.
More spending on care mainly due to larger care volume
In 2011 the rise in the Dutch care volume was primarily responsible for the rise in care expenditure. The Dutch care volume grew faster in 2011 than in 2010.
People feel less unsafe
The proportion of Dutch aged 15 years and older who occasionally felt unsafe in 2011 was marginally lower than one year previously. The proportion who reported they had been victims of common crime...
More state-owned shares, more dividend
The financial crisis forced the Dutch government to intervene in the affairs of a number banks and insurance companies at the end of 2008. Among other things, this intervention resulted in a...
Labour force (12-hours threshold)
People: - who have paid work for twelve hours or more (employed labour force (12-hours threshold)), or - who don't have paid work or for less than twelve hours per week, recently looked for work for...
Renewable energy in the Netherlands 2011
The report Renewable energy in the Netherlands 2011 describes the contribution of renewable energy sources to the Dutch energy supply from 1990 to 2011.
Non-employed labour force (12-hours threshold)
People who don't have paid work or work less than twelve hours per week.
Inflation rate further up
In October 2009, the Dutch inflation rate stood at 0.7 percent, an increase by 0.3 percentage points compared to September.
Not in the labour force
People who don't have paid work, who haven't recently looked for work of are not directly available for it.
Unemployed labour force
People who don't have paid work, recently looked for work and are directly available for it.
House prices 6.3 percent higher in January
In January 2020, prices of owner-occupied dwellings (excluding new constructions) were on average 6.3 percent higher than in the same month one year previously.
Recession pushes down sea shipping rates
Prices in Dutch sea shipping were 15.5 percent lower in the first quarter of this year compared with the previous quarter. Shipping companies have substantially reduced rates for container transport...
Fewer victims of common crime
This year, 26 percent of the 15-and-over population in the Netherlands reported that they had been victimes of common crime, as against 29 percent two years ago; the number of offences experienced by...
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Non-employed labour force
People who don't have paid work.