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Area for daytime recreation
Area used for daytime recreation, such as zoos, open air museums, and amusement parks.
Area for social and cultural provisions
Area in use for social and cultural provisions such as hospitals, universities and museums.
Social security
The complex of measures that aim to guarantee some continuity in household spending capacity.
Euthanasia
The intentional ending of a person’s life by someone other than the person involved at his or her explicit request.
Standard gross margins
The value, expressed in monetary terms, of the total yield of a livestock or crop minus certain specific costs.
Liner traffic
Shipping according to a time table on a regular route with transport capacity on offer publicly (or scheduled services)
Judgement in a defended case
Final decision in a court case where the suspect/parties appeared in court. Sentence by default.
Cargotonkilometre
Unit of measurement for transport capacity, representing the transport of a tonne (1000 kilograms) of load capacity over one kilometre.
Unemployed
Situation of a person without paid work, who recently looked for work and is directly available for it.
Nursing day average
The number of nursing days in a given period divided by the number of patients admitted.
Energy from waste
Heat produced by incineration of waste, combustion of wood and gas produced by fermentation of organic material.
Load capacity
The maximum permissible cargo weight that can be transported by a single vehicle, expressed in tonnes of 1000 kilograms.
Country of origin
Country where an immigrant used to live before moving to the Netherlands
Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI) 1998
The classification of educational programs by level and field used by Statistics Netherlands since 1998 developed for use in statistics and research and for administrative purposes in the Netherlands.
Social assistance benefits in cash
Income transfers by government or non-profit institutions to households on the basis of social security legislation. These are not financed by specific premiums but by general tax revenues.
Block or day release programmes
One of the two tracks in secondary vocational training introduced by the WEB (Adult and Vocational Education Act). In this track students spend 60 percent of their time of practical training within a...
Part-time job
A job for which there is a permanent contract and for which a fixed number of hours was agreed that is less than the number of hours in a full day’s or working week.
Business cycle
The up and downturns of the economy within a five to ten year period. Usually there are the following phases.: recovery, boom, recession, and depression.
Operating costs
The costs made to achieve the operating profits, that is the purchase value of the turnover, labour costs, and depreciation on assets, and other business expenditure.
Costs of services provided by others
Costs of banking (excluding interest and exchange rate loss) + insurance premiums paid (not elswhere classified) + costs of accountants/administration/advice/ legal advice/ computer services by...
People working from home
Someone who agrees to work for another person or company from home – outside the direct control of the other party - for a preset amount, not using more than two helpers from outside the family.
Wage dispensation
Regulation allowing employers to be exempt from having to pay the legal minimum wage or the normal collective labour agreement wage to employees who perform clearly below the required level due to...
Recession
Stage of the economic cycle characterised by decreasing growth in economic activities. This is measured as a decreasing growth of the volume of the gross domestic product or a growth that is below...
General Disablement Benefits Act (AAW)
Law rescinded on 1 July 1998 and replaced by WAZ and Wajong. It was a compulsory insurance for the entire population against the financial consequences of long-term disablement.
Property income distributed to insurance policy holders
The yields of investments of pension or life insurance provisions which are seen as income from property received by policyholders from insurance companies, who pay the imputed pension and life...