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Economic impact of COVID-19
The recent coronavirus outbreak affects virtually all people in the Netherlands. Certainly, the effects will also be visible in statistics that are being produced by Statistics Netherlands in the...
Which SMEs are ready for big data?
small and medium-sized enterprises ready for new services based on big data
Innovation and Research & Development
In 2000 European government leaders set the joint goal that by 2010 the European Union (EU) would be the most important knowledge economy of the world.
The need for timely official statistics
This paper discusses how Statistics Netherlands managed to respond quickly with a range of new outputs following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. First, it describes the innovation process and...
Business confidence hits record high
The Dutch business confidence index is at a record high.
Economic growth 0.6 percent in Q2
Economic growth 0.6 percent in Q2
Environment costs of enterprises > 20 employees; key figures, 1985-2012
Investments and net annual costs of environmental measures Mining and quarrying, Manufacturing and Public utilities
Health-related R&D; labour volume and expenditure, 2003-2007
Research & Development activities measured in terms of labour volume and expenditure (in sector of performance)
Green growth
The government has requested Statistics Netherlands to monitor greening of the Dutch economy
Perceived inflation back in line with observed inflation
One of the cornerstones in the description of the economy is the measurement of price increases, or inflation. Alongside actually observed inflation, economists are also confronted by perceived...
US companies account for 12 percent of turnover
Subsidiaries with a US parent company account for some 12 percent of total private sector turnover in the Netherlands.
Complexity and simplification of networks
Quantification of the complexity of networks and methods to simplify networks by focusing on their essence.
Vessel kilometre
Unit of measurement representing the movement of a vessel over one kilometre.
Employee savings scheme
Fiscally attractive legal measure to stimulate saving among employees.
Travelling time per trip
Average time measured in minutes someone spends on a trip during one day
Cargotonkilometre
Unit of measurement for transport capacity, representing the transport of a tonne (1000 kilograms) of load capacity over one kilometre.
Social security
The complex of measures that aim to guarantee some continuity in household spending capacity.
Full-time equivalent (fte)
A measure of labour volume, calculated by converting all full-time and part-time jobs to full-time jobs
Temporary guardianship
Measure in which a specialised judge for youth cases provides authority for a minor when the minor is not under parental authority or when this authority is not exercised.
Industrial production index
A key economic indicator for the developments of production in industry. The index measures the volume changes of the gross value added at basic prices of a given base year.
National Accounts 2018
The national accounts are the official statistics that provide an overview of the Dutch economy.
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...
Reference year for social benefits
Measure for the average number of benefits in a given period, calculated as the number of days in a year in which benefits were paid divided by the number of working days in that year.
€14 bn government surplus after first three quarters
The Dutch central government realised a budget surplus of more than 14 billion euros over the first three quarters of 2019.
Does balancing of survey response reduce nonresponse bias
Recently, representativeness indicators, or R-indicators, have been proposed as indirect measures of nonresponse error in surveys.