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Increase government spending to combat effects of climate change
In 2010, the Dutch government spent nearly 1.3 billion euro on actions to address climate change. Important in this respect are energy-saving projects and the promotion of renewable energy sources,...
More health care provided with fewer hospital beds
In the period 1972-2006, the number of beds and patient days in general and university hospitals declined considerably. Simultaneously, the number of hospital admissions and treatment and nursing...
Requests for legal aid and reason request by characteristics
Requests for legal aid and reason make a request for legal aid; sex, age, level of education, socio - economic group
Dutch hauliers cover 470 million kilometres on Belgian roads
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...
Provincial budget for road maintenance and construction 1.2 billion euro
The provincial road maintenance budget amounts to 1.2 billion euro in 2011, i.e. more than one and a half times as high as in 2005.
Inflation down to 1.1 percent in March
Inflation fell further in March 2004, to 1.1 percent . This is the lowest value since August 1989. The decrease was mainly caused by lower prices for food, non-alcoholic drinks and clothes and shoes....
Ten percent fewer people without medical insurance in 2010
On 1 May 2010 136 thousand people living in the Netherlands were not insured for medical costs. This is 10 percent fewer than twelve months previously.
Inflation rate up to 1.2 percent in October
The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.2 percent higher in October than in the same month last year.
Inflation down slightly in September
Consumer price index put Dutch inflation at 3.1 percent in September. This is slightly down on August’s 3.2 percent. The decrease was mainly the result of developments in petrol prices.
New dwellings; input price indices 2000=100
Input price index (2000=100) new houses total, wage and building material components
Inflation rate 1.3 percent in 2020
In 2020, consumer prices in the Netherlands rose by 1.3 percent on average relative to the previous year.
Modest rise again for collectively agreed wages in 2011
The increase in collectively negotiated wage rates was again modest in 2011. Just as in 2010, wages rose by 1.3 percent on average.
Private sector invests 1.7 billion euro in vocational education
In 2006, the public sector spent 1.7 billion euro (5 percent of total spending on education and 0.3 percent of the GDP) on apprenticeship training programmes and other combinations of education and...
Collectively negotiated wages 1.6 percent up in 2012
Collectively negotiated wages rose by 1.6 percent last year, i.e. 0.5 percentage points more than in 2011. The inflation rate over 2012 was 2.5 percent and has been above the increase in collectively...
Modest wage increase in first quarter of 2011
In the first quarter of this year, collectively negotiated (CAO) wages were 1.1 percent up on one year previously, the lowest wage increase since 2005. The highest increase in CAO wages (1.5 percent)...
Schools have less money left
Educational institutions had less money left in 2008 than in 2007. Schools for secondary vocational education (mbo) recorded a negative result for the first time in ten years.
Netherlands Housing Research 2012
Last year, more than 7.1 million households in the Netherlands not belonging to the institutional population were living in homes they rented or owned; 59 percent were owner-occupiers. The ratio...