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In 2012, over-60s much more often than younger home owners had interest-only mortgages. More than one third of home owners aged 60 years and older have paid off their mortgage.

Manufacturers anticipate to invest 15 percent more in 2015. They are much more optimistic about the investment climate than in 2014.

In the first quarter of 2010, collectively negotiated (CAO) wages were 1.6 percent higher than one year previously. Since early 2009, the increase in CAO wages was reduced by more than half.

Dutch expenditure on care in 2003 increased by 8.4 percent to almost 57 billion euro. In 2001 and 2002 care expenditure increased by 11.4 and 11.8 percent. Expenditure on health care went up by 8.2...

In 2014, the number of asylum seekers in the European Union increased by more than 40 percent relative to 2013. In the Netherlands, nearly 22 thousand people submitted requests for asylum, more than...

In 2007, an average day out cost 14 euro per person. Adjusted for price changes, this is nearly 11 percent more than in 2002. Altogether, the Dutch spent nearly 13 billion euro on recreational trips,...

More than 78 thousand marriages and partnerships were registered in the Netherlands last year. The number of marriages and partnerships has fallen after 2010. Friday is still the most popular day to...

The trading relationship between Poland and the Netherlands is becoming more and more important. Poland is by far the most important trading partner for the Netherlands of all the countries which...

320 thousand income support benefits were being paid to people up to the age of 65 years at the end of September 2012. This is one thousand more than in the previous quarter, and 6 thousand more than...

In January 2006 households spent 1.5 percent more on goods and services than in January 2005.

More than 27 percent of Dutch employed were working from home part of their regular working hours in 2010.

Early 2011, 4.2 million households in the Netherlands owned the homes they lived in. In more than one million cases, the value of the house was below the mortgage debt level. Since 2008, the...

More children living at home have older parents. Nearly one in three parents with children living at home were in their fifties in 2010.

More and more women, in particular the youngest generations, participate on the labour market. As a result of this development, the distribution of working hours between partners has also changed....

Some 67 thousand new homes were completed in the Netherlands in 2005, 3 percent more than in 2004.

In December, Dutch retailers faced a more than 3 percent loss of turnover compared to December 2008.

In recent years, the Dutch have adopted a more healthy lifestyle. The percentage of smokers and heavy drinkers has marginally declined.

After many years of decline, architects have received more new orders in 2010.

In 2011, the annual wage of employees per job averaged 31 thousand euros; 145 thousand employees in the Netherlands annually earned 100 thousand euros or more in 2011.

On 1 January last year, 820 unmarried couples were living together in the Netherlands. More than half had cohabitation agreements.

In 2017, more following family members than asylum seekers from Eritrea arrived in the Netherlands.

Dutch consumer confidence was up in March 2006 in comparison to February. Consumers were considerably more positive about the economic climate.

Dutch manufacturing companies expect to invest 2 percent more this year than in 2003. The increase in investment in 2004 is dampened by companies in the chemical industry, which expect to spend 37...

Starting from the reporting month of June 2023, new data sources are being used at Statistics Netherlands for CPI-Energy, along with a new method specifically designed for detailed data analysis....

The average retirement age of employees had risen to more than 63 years in 2011.