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CBS launching Center for Big Data Statistics
Statistics Netherlands is focusing more and more on the use of big data for official statistics production.
Take offs and landings
The take offs and landings of airplanes at a given airport.
Travelling time per trip
Average time measured in minutes someone spends on a trip during one day
Push-towing
Shipping where one or more dumb barges are pushed by a centrally steered push boat.
Kilometres abroad
The total distance travelled (in km) abroad by vehicles with a Dutch registration plate.
Active inland fleet
All vessels participating in national and/or international shipping on inland waterways in a given year.
FAQs
FAQs
Car availability
Having a car at one’s disposal given the number of driver’s licences and cars in a household.
More immigrants than emigrants
In the first six months of 2008, the population increased by nearly 30 thousand, because more people arrived in the Netherlands than left the country.
International mercantile shipping
Loaded and empty sea vessels entering Dutch ports to load and/or unload cargo and/or passengers.
Transport for hire or reward
The transport of goods and/or people for money and on account of third parties.
Cargotonkilometre
Unit of measurement for transport capacity, representing the transport of a tonne (1000 kilograms) of load capacity over one kilometre.
Load capacity
The maximum permissible cargo weight that can be transported by a single vehicle, expressed in tonnes of 1000 kilograms.
Potential labour force remains in tact thanks to the people over 65
With the proposed raising of the age at which people are entitled to General Old Age Pension (AOW), the number of people aged over 65 in the potential labour force will reach 0.8 million in 2040.
Calendar
Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 20-24 April 2009 (Week 17).
Calendar
Week 17 (23-27 April 2007)
Merchant fleet
All ocean vessels specially intended for the transport of goods and/or passengers or vessels specially adapted for a commercial role.
Kilometres by Dutch vehicles
The total distance travelled (in km) in the Netherlands and abroad by vehicles with a Dutch registration plate.
Nomenclature of Territorial Statistical Units
The regional division prescribed by Eurostat for regional statistics.
User of public transport
Someone who made used of public transportation for at least one trip on the day of the survey.
Gross tonnage
The measure for the total cubic capacity of the ship in accordance with the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships of 1969.
Small delivery van
A commercial vehicle equipped for freight transport of which the empty weight plus the loading capacity do not exceed 3500 kilograms.
International goods transport
Goods transport between the Netherlands and abroad, where either the place of loading or the place of unloading is outside the Netherlands.
Tug boat
Motor boat with a capacity of at least 37 kW, designed or refitted to tow towing barges, push boats or platforms, but not for transporting freight.