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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recently released a new handbook, ‘Synthetic Data for Official Statistics’, to help get statistical institutes started in producing their own...

Distances to and number of facilities: healthcare, retail, leisure, schools and culture per municipality, district and neighbourhood

Distances to and number of facilities: healthcare, retail, leisure, schools and culture per municipality, district and neighbourhood

In 2023, 89 percent of persons aged 12 years and over said they take steps to protect their personal data online.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) developed a Material Flow Monitor (MFM) that captures national resource extraction, imports and exports, product flows between economic sectors, as well as emissions and...

This report presents data on monetary ecosystem values for the Nethelands (2013-2021) and provides guidance on their interpretation and statistical use.

Businesses with a growth or decline in turnover Business activity and business size

Number of aircraft movements, passenger arrivals, passengers departures, Caribbean Netherlands airports (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba)

Distances to and number of facilities: healthcare, retail, leisure, schools and culture per municipality, district and neighbourhood

Some 90% of all the products traded around the world are transported by ship.

On 14 March 2023, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) organised a Green Deal Workshop to focus on key issues such as climate change, energy, the environment and nature and their associated challenges and...

On 23 September 2022, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) published the results of research that made it possible to split the income and expenditure of non-financial corporations (NFCs) into those of...

Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

At the request of the Dutch House of Representatives, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes the Monitor of Well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) annually on Accountability Day in...

In the 2021/’22 academic year, universities and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands had altogether 443,000 female students attending against 393 thousand male students.

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....

Of all natural resources that were deployed in the Dutch economy in 2020, 13 percent consisted of recycled materials. This percentage is virtually the same as in 2014. In terms of recycling, the...

Data protection legislation came into effect in 1988, with the Personal Data Protection Act. Legislation had already been adjusted prior to this to prevent census data being used for purposes other...

It’s hard to remember a time before unmanned aircraft – drones – took to the skies.

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

Collecting climate data should be just as routine for statistical institutes around the world as collecting data on the population or the economy.

In 1960, CBS was growing rapidly and it struggled with staff shortages. The large building on Oostduinlaan had become too crowded: CBS itself had expanded significantly, and staff from other...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently been working on a new classification according to origin for migrants in the Netherlands and for migrant children who were born in the Netherlands.

The third Sensor Data Challenge took place on 22 and 23 April 2021.

The COVID-19 crisis has brought with it a great need for reliable data, and national statistical offices (NSOs) are playing an important role in this regard.