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CBS Urban Data Centre Eindhoven bearing fruit
The results of the cluster analysis will help Eindhoven municipality formulate more targeted policies for the different target groups
Private sector invests 1.7 billion euro in vocational education
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...
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Unemployment down, but fewer people employed
According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), unemployment fell by 7 thousand in March. The decline was largely due to the fact that many people withdrew from the...
More highly educated young women than men
Who are better educated in the age category 30-39? Men or women?
Employee sickness absence increased further in 2019
Last year, absenteeism in the public and the private sector due to illness or injury rose to 4.4 percent.
Fewer people claiming benefits
For the first time in ten years, the number of people in the Netherlands claiming a social benefit has decreased across the board.
Highest increase consumer prices in almost 5 years
For the first time after September 2013, the price increase was above 2 percent.
Less beer exported in 2017
Beer production rose and beer exports declined in 2017.
Fewer social security claimants find work
The proportion of social security claimants who found a new job declined further last year. Since the start of the survey in 2007, the proportion has never been so low.
Energy consumption hardly changed in 2017
In 2017, total energy consumption in the Netherlands stood at 3,150 petajoules (PJ), more or less equal to consumption in 2016.
Dutch public debt below EMU target
For the first time in six years, government debt falls below 60 percent of GDP (EMU target).
Piet Daas endowed professor of Big Data at TU/e
Creating big data statistics is very different from creating statistics based on surveys
Greenhouse gas emissions slightly down in 2017
In 2017, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were 1 percent lower than in the previous year.
University bachelors graduate sooner
The share of bachelor students at universities graduating within 5 years has grown substantially. Female students still graduate sooner than their male counterparts, but men are in the process of...
Fewer unemployed
In the period February-April 2010, unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 459 thousand.
Less coal used in production of electricity
In 2016, power stations consumed less coal for the first time since 2011. Coal consumption was 10 percent down on 2015.
More deaths among cyclists than car occupants in 2017
In 2017, more cyclists than car occupants died in traffic accidents, of whom 1/4 on an e-bike.
Labour participation; position in the household
Labour force, unemployment, labour participation Position in household, sex, age
Less nitrogen and phosphate excretion from livestock manure
In 2021, the total amount of nitrogen excreted by Dutch livestock stood at 471 million kg.
Unemployment further up
An average of 430 thousand persons were unemployed in the period November 2009-January 2010, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.