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Adoption
Acceptance as a legitimate child following a court decision in consequence of the application of a couple or single person who wishes to adopt the child, or under The Hague Adoption Convention of...
Unemployment benefits
Benefits based on one of the following regulations : - the Unemployment insurance act (WW) - the Unemployment Provisions Act (WWV) - the State Group Regulation for unemployed Persons (RWW) - the Act...
Taxes on production and imports
Compulsory payments, in money or kind, imposed by the national government or institutions of the European Union or by foreign governments because of the production of goods and services, employing...
Credit card credit
'Form of credit where a borrower can withdraw money or purchase goods and services to a pre-agreed amount (credit limit). The withdrawal of cash and purchase of goods and services takes place by...
National Assistance Act (ABW)
Law rescinded on 1 January 2004 and replaced by the Work and Social Assistance Act (WWB) . It was a social provision for financial support to people who did not have the means to support themselves....
Terms of employment
All conditions agreed upon by employer and employee which are observed when they enter into a labour agreement, either on an individual or on a collective basis. These terms are regulated by law in a...
Misdemeanour
Punishable offence of a less serious nature, mentioned as such in the Penal Code. The classification of punishable offences is important in procedural law (absolute competence and legal remedies) and...
Consumer confidence
The indicator providing information on the confidence and expectations consumers have about developments in the Dutch economy. Together with the indicators on economic climate and willingness to...
Adult and Vocational Education Act (WEB)
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...
User criteria
Ownership refers to all purchases of new or second hand material fixed assets that became available for production during the reporting year and will be used for more than one year, that were...
Non-commercial services
Services that are not primarily engaged in profit making. SIC sections O-U. These include: public administration and defence; compulsory social security; education; health and social work; other...
Ownership criterion
Ownership refers to all purchases of new or second hand material fixed assets that became available for production during the reporting year and will be used for more than one year, that were...
Percentage of cases solved
The total number of crimes solved in a given period expressed as a percentage of the number of crimes of the same sort recorded by the police in that period.
Capital account
The capital account records acquisitions less disposals of non-financial assets by resident units and measures the change in net worth due to saving (final balancing item in the current accounts) and...
Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI 2006)
The classification of educational programs by level and field used by Statistics Netherlands since 2006 developed for use in statistics and research and for administrative purposes in the Netherlands.
Contractual social premiums
The employer’s contribution paid in the framework of insuring pensions for employees and the premiums for additional disablement and unemployment insurance, sick leave benefits and social funds...
Primary income (NA)
All income a resident sector receives for participating directly in the production process and due to ownership of assets. Or for making the material non-produced asset available to another...
Sickness Benefits Act (ZW)
The law insures employees against the expense from sickness and labour disability. The law applies when there is no legal obligation to continue paying wages.
Nursery school and primary education
Education for children aged 4 to 12 after which they start secondary education. Until 1985 this was called pre-school and elementary school. It includes special needs education.
Trade union federation
The umbrella organisation of trade unions that engages as a social partner in the negotiations at the national level in the Stichting van de Arbeid, Sociaal-Economische Raad, Sociale...
Accounting rules
Rules for the decentralised government in the area of financial accounting, on the basis of which interested parties can form an informed opinion about the financial situation of the decentralised...
Administrative entry
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from...
Field of education SOI 2006
The place of educational programs in the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (SOI) 2006 based on the economic sector, area of working live or scientific area on which the program focuses.
Bankruptcy
State declared by the court when a debtor has ceased all payments after which the assets and income of the bankrupt are ceased as a possible compensation to the creditor(s).