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More and more women in European Parliament
Share of women in European Parliament and national parliaments Key words: Summary: The share of women in the European Parliament has risen steadily in recent decades. In 1979, when direct voting for...
Retail trade on the way up
Statistics Netherlands announced today that retail turnover was 3.4 percent up in April 2014 from the same month last year. For Dutch retailers, this is the largest turnover growth since November...
One quarter of people living alone are not single
One in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.
Downturn wood industry less dramatic than in last quarter 2012
In the second quarter of 2013, turnover generated by the wood industry was 11 percent down from the second quarter of 2012, but the downturn was less dramatic than in last year’s fourth quarter.
Investments down after eight months of growth
The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was 4.3 percent down in June 2014 from June 2013. According to Statistics Netherlands, investments in residential and non-residential property and...
Many natives of Rotterdam live elsewhere
On 1 January 2004, there were 770 thousand people in the Netherlands who were born in Rotterdam. Four in ten natives of Rotterdam (302 thousand) are still living in the town where they were born, so...
Mining and quarrying; employment and finance, SIC'93, 2006 - 2008
Persons employed, costs and revenues, turnover and other financial result Branches (SIC'93) mining and quarrying
Consumption almost unchanged in August
The volume of domestic consumption was 0.1 percent larger in August 2004 than twelve months previously. In July it was 1.7 percent higher than in the same month last year. The average growth in July...
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Inflation rate slightly up
Dutch inflation was 1.6 percent in September, i.e. 0.1 percentage points up on August.
Consumer prices rising less rapidly
The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.6 percent higher in February than in the same month last year.
Household spending over 2 percent up in May
Dutch consumers spent 2.4 percent more in May 2019 than in May 2018.
Economic outlook less negative in mid-August
The economic situation according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer has become less unfavourable in August.
Household spending almost 2 percent up in October
Dutch consumers spent 1.7 percent more in October 2019 than in October 2018.
Household consumption over 3 percent up in March
Dutch household consumption was 3.3 percent up in March 2018.
Consumer prices 2.6 percent up in November
The consumer price index (CPI) was 2.6 percent higher in November than in the same month last year.
Consumer spending up by more than 2 percent in June
Dutch consumer spending was more than 2 percent up in June 2017 from June 2016.
Consumer spending slightly up
Consumers spending slightly up
Steady growth consumer spending
Steady growth consumer spending
High public deficit not uncommon
Based on data over the first three quarters of 2011, the Dutch public deficit was 4.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), i.e. the market value of all goods and services produced in the...