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Time use of young people (Dutch only)
At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), Statistics Netherlands' Centre for Policy Related Statistics has composed a set of tables on the time use of young people in...
Top sectors employ over 1.6 million people
The so-called top sectors include more than 260 thousand businesses. Together, they accounted for more than one third of total output value in 2010. Two thirds of spending on innovation projects by...
Medical care consumption by older people in the low-income brackets
In 2006 more 55 to 80-year-olds living on long-term low incomes consulted medical specialists and physiotherapists than people in the same age category with incomes above the low-income threshold.
North Holland has largest proportion of school drop-outs
With 4.7 percent, the province of North Holland had the highest proportion of premature school leavers in the school year 2006/’07.
Time use of young people; historical series 2004 - 2009 (Dutch only)
At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), Statistics Netherlands' Centre for Policy Related Statistics has composed a set of tables on the time use of young people in...
Substantial part of school drop-outs return to school after period of non-attendance
In school year 2009/’10, approximately 30 percent of pupils who had left school prematurely in 2004/’05 had returned to school or otherwise obtained a basic qualification.
Reversal of consumer confidence among highest incomes
Consumer confidence in the Netherlands has fallen substantially in the space of one year: from -5 in the first quarter of 2011 to -36 in the second quarter of 2012. Among people with the highest...
Most students who move elsewhere to study stay in the same part of the country
Annually, 96 thousand 18 to 21-year-olds move to another municipality, often to embark on a study in higher vocational education or university. They often settle in one of the major cities or...
Integration a step forward with the second generation
The second generation, born in the Netherlands, is starting to become the face of the population with a non-western background in Dutch society
Children of divorced parents start living together at younger age
Children of couples who married young often start living together when they are young. Children of divorced couples also start living together at a younger age.
Seven out of ten Caribbean Dutch in employment
In 2016, 6.7 percent of Bonaire's labour force were unemployed. On St Eustatius: 7.1 percent; on Saba 3.3 percent.
Online shopping increasingly popular
Last year, 9.3 million Dutch 12 to 74-year-olds bought goods and services online, i.e. half a million more than one year previously. The proportion of Internet users who have never bought or ordered...