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Thirty percent of Amsterdam households own their home.

In comparison with the rest of the EU, the Dutch are relatively active participants in ‘lifelong learning’. Training for work or leisure is more popular among highly educated and those working in...

The one-off publication on the relative price levels of consumptive expenditure in Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (the Caribbean Netherlands). It concerns the price levels of a representative basket...

Costs of and number of employees with internal and external courses by branch of industry and size of enterprise

Health care and welfare cost nearly 60 billion euro in 2004. This is 4.3 percent more than 2003. Spending on care still rose by as much 10 percent annually in the period 2001-2003. The decrease in...

The EU’s share in the US goods trade has increased since 2013. In the first nine months of 2015, the share was 18.5 percent of total US goods trade.

The Netherlands’ Safety Monitor (Veiligheidsmonitor-VM) monitors the attitudes and experiences of the general population of the Netherlands regarding habitability and safety of the neighbourhood,...

Nearly 16.8 million people were living in the Netherlands on 1 January 2013, an increase by 48 thousand relative to one year previously. On balance, 13 thousand people from abroad settled in the...

Dutch people rate their life satisfaction at 7.8, taking them to fifth place within the EU.

After four years of decline, the purchasing power of the Dutch population improved by 1.5 percent in 2014. All population groups saw their spending power rise in a period of slow economic recovery....

Over the past three months, more people in the Netherlands who were not actively looking on the labour market have begun seeking employment, but often without success. The number of people in the...

Lage inkomens, kans op armoede en uitsluiting 2009. It describes recent developments in poverty and constraints in social and financial aspects.

In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.

Nearly 950 thousand persons received long-term care in 2012. Due to the ageing population, the number of long-term care recipients has increased dramatically over the period 2004-2012. Because the...

Producers’ confidence in the manufacturing industry is 6.1 in April 2006. This means manufacturers are about just as optimistic as in March.

Dutch central government paid just over 10.4 billion euros in income-related allowances for housing, health care and children in 2013. Spending on care allowances, in particular, rose, to 5.1 billion...

In the first quarter of 2009 there were 23 thousand more jobs of employees than in the same quarter of 2008. This brought the number of jobs to 7.9 million.

Turnover in the business services sector was smaller in the third quarter of 2013 than twelve months previously; the slight increase in turnover measured in the second quarter was unable to continue....

In 2013 nearly one in five registered crime suspects was a foreigner. Over half of this group, one in ten crime suspects, had no fixed abode within the Netherlands. They were tourists, seasonal...

In 2025, there will be 8 million households in the Netherlands, an increase by 800 thousand relative to early 2007.

According to the first provisional estimate, the Dutch economy shrank by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year.