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One of the most fascinating and longstanding CBS statistics is the population census of the Netherlands.

Censuses are the oldest official statistic produced by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

Census tables were published in 2004 (for the 2001 census). Census taking had become desk work, thanks to the use of registers (e.g. the Municipal Records Database). No more enumerators going out...

Once every ten years, there is a special day within CBS: the day when, after a long and concerted effort, the most recent census is finalised.

(Subtitled in English ) A history of the oldest official statistics of Statistics Netherlands: the Population Census. How we once went from door to door with pink and blue sheets of paper to know how...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) celebrates its 125th anniversary this month.

Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration

Without warning, the census of 28 February 1971 turned out to be the last. It was a success – generating 4,500 pages of tables, explanatory notes and analyses in 38 volumes, including 18 census...

While in past decades censuses were held every ten years, under legislation currently being drafted, after 2024, the census is set to be held on an annual basis and the number of variables on which...

Few statistical offices were as advanced as CBS. Only Denmark and Finland conducted their censuses in the same way, using registers. Unique for the Netherlands was that it used survey data to fill...

Counting at 'grid square level' is new for this census and contains much more detailed information than at municipal level. The grid of 1 by 1 kilometre squares cuts right through municipalities, but...

Censuses are the oldest official statistics produced by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and they are a treasure trove of demographic and socio-economic information.

Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration

Overview of new population classification based on country of birth, i.e. the Netherlands or a foreign country classified into continents. Replacing the former classification based on migration...

Immigrants in the population, expatriates, sum and balance transfer of knowledge broken down by region

How data determine who are the people of Europe

The use of Big data in official statistics requires methodological innovations.

The book “Dutch Census 2011” gives some key figures of the Netherlands, a global historical comparison with earlier Dutch Censuses, a comparison of some results with other European...

Blaise CAI software

Statistical data confidentiality high on the agenda

In Croatia, Bosnia and North Macedonia, the population census is still carried out in a traditional fashion, using pen and paper

Population censuses have a centuries-long tradition.

The European Bird Census Council held its 19th congress Bird Numbers in Cluj, Romania on 16-21 September 2013. On the occasion of this congress, attended by some 250 participants form across Europe,...

On 1 Jan 2018, the IJsselmeerpolders had 404,000 inhabitants.