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Unemployment among highly-educated 25 to 35-year-old men has increased significantly after 2009. Last year, more than 6 percent of them were unemployed. The rate was nearly twice as high as among...

Forecast for the population of the Caribbean Netherlands by island of residence, age and region of birth, for the years 2022-2050.

In the school year 2004/’05, more than185 thousand new pupils were registered in secondary education. Three years later, nearly 26 thousand of them attended the middle management vocational track...

The Dutch retail sector recorded 11 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales, however, went down by 0.5 percent.

In 2006, the public sector spent 1.7 billion euro (5 percent of total spending on education and 0.3 percent of the GDP) on apprenticeship training programmes and other combinations of education and...

In 2007, schools in the sector subsidised education spent 800 million euro on temps, a quarter more than one year previously. In the preceding years, costs of temporary staff have risen more rapidly...

Developments, expectations and opinions of businesses Sector/Branches, size classes

Latest data contributing to worldwide monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 Gender equality. SDG 5 advocates equal treatment of and an equal position in society for men and women. In...

The UDC Leiden studied how many children attending primary school and living in Leiden have an elevated risk of educational disadvantage.

The place in the classification of educational programs by level according to the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI) 2003. This level is based on the minimum educational attainment...

The place in the classification of educational programs by level according to the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI) 2003. This level is based on the minimum educational attainment...

Dutch act that came into force on 1 January 1996, aiming to co-ordinate the various types of secondary vocational education, apprenticeship system, adult general secondary education, adult basic...

The first three quarters produced a positive budget balance of 7 billion euros.

Publications on small, special focus groups call for accurate application of statistical disclosure control. To that end, perturbative methods may be useful. Proper communication thereof is...

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 Climate Action. SDG 13 aims to tackle climate change caused by humans. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries agreed to restrict global warming...

In 2017, 4 percent of young people in the Netherlands were neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET). This percentage is fairly stable and lower than in other EU countries.

Boys more often than girls get in contact with youth care and rehabilitation programmes and girls are doing better in education. A reverse situation occurs on the labour market. Young men are more...

More than 146 thousand students passed their final exams in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) in the Netherlands in 2008/’09. This increase, 35 percent compared with ten years...

Statistics Netherlands announced today that children adopted from China perform better at school than non-adopted children; 15-year-old children with a Chinese background more often attend...

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In 2021, the number of newly issued car driving licences was 7.8 percent higher than in the previous year. Altogether 178 thousand new licences were issued. This was still 17.7 percent lower than in...

About a quarter of pupils who leave school without a diploma returned to school in later years; some of them will therefore attain a basic qualification as yet.

In March, 357 thousand people aged 15 to 74 years were unemployed.

In the period 2001–2009, an average 14 percent of Dutch adults had mental problems. Mental problems are most frequently found in women, over-75s and lower educated.