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Until 2007/’08, students in preparatory secondary vocational education (vmbo) could choose one of the four discipline sectors agriculture, health, personal care and welfare, economics, or technology....

The first available data and results of labour market projects funded by the ESF over the period 2014 -2015

‘A breakthrough in how we think about bias’ – that is how professor Jaap van den Herik at Leiden University described Statistics Netherlands (CBS) researcher Quinten Meertens’ PhD thesis...

This research describes the Netherlands’ economic relations with the United Kingdom (UK) from the perspective of both enterprises and international trade

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets rose by 10.3 percent year-on-year in May 2021.

Many women in the Netherlands respond to invitations for preventive screening for cervical and breast cancer. One quarter of men aged 40 years or older are screened for the risk of prostate cancer.

This Internationalisation Monitor focuses on export prices, export quality, trade instruments such as import tariffs, NTMs, trade agreements and companies’ choices with respect to their...

Statistics Netherlands is introducing a new process chain for data collection with the accompanying IT landscape.

In 2017, over 1.7 million people in the Netherlands between the ages of 25 and 65 years participated in a form of adult learning. This concerned formal education such as secondary vocational...

In May 2021, the total volume of goods exports was up by 22.2 percent year-on-year.

Dutch exports of services in the field of entertainment, including royalties, have surged in recent years. Netherlands-based companies are mainly exporting more and more rights for the distribution...

Information security and privacy are permanently high on the agenda at Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

The percentage of children suffering from dyslexia has risen slightly since 2001.

“You can only govern a country, if you know the figures”, is a slogan used by Statistics Netherlands. The slogan also applies to the islands of Bonaire, Saint. Eustatius and Saba,...

Nearly one-quarter of higher education graduates went abroad for their education, mainly those in hospitality.

In May 2016 an international conference was held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Municipalities, provinces and central government in the Netherlands spent nearly 1.5 billion euro on sport in 2008. In the same year they received nearly 0.4 billion euro, for example in rent for...

In 2020 – the year of the coronavirus outbreak – the Netherlands earned 25.6 billion euros from goods and service exports to the UK.

In Q1 2021, turnover in the accommodation and food services sector fell by nearly 4 percent relative to the previous quarter.

ESA transactions government sector; revenue and expenditure on current and capital account, net lending/net borrowing on financial account

Tech subjects are chosen by an increasing proportion of girls in secondary and higher education.

In 2009, the most popular job among women was shop assistant and the most popular job among men was lorry driver. These jobs were also chosen in 1993.