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The ESS report 2015
After more than three years of intense discussions, agreement was finally reached on a revised version
Annual Report Youth Monitor 2017 Summary
Annual Report Youth Monitor 2016 Summary
Secondary data collection
Statistics Netherlands aims to make as much use as possible of data sources that have been collected by others (i.e. not by Statistics Netherlands). Secondary data collection is the process of...
Classifying businesses by economic activity
Exploring the suitability of web-based text mining to classify businesses by economic activity
World Data Forum: from data to policy
The first World Data Forum was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 15 to 18 January this year.
The digital economy 2009
Dutch ICT skills continue to increase and more and more people in the Netherlands are using mobile devices to access the internet. At home, laptops are increasingly replacing desktop computers, and...
CBS and The Hague unite ambitions in a new UDC
News article CBS and The Hague unite ambitions in a new UDC
Data editing: detection and correction of errors
Both surveys and registrations nearly always contain errors. If these errors result in bias in the results, it is in the interest of Statistics Netherlands to detect and correct them. Error detection...
DG Statistics Netherlands advises Prince Charles
Altogether 17 different main goals have been set by the UN for sustainable development
Seasonal adjustment
Many time series at Statistics Netherlands suffer from seasonal or working-day effects. Energy use by households, for example, will be higher in the winter than in the summer. In the interpretation...
Representative outliers
Representative outliers are extreme values in a sample, which are assumed to have been observed correctly, and for which it is assumed that the population contains other similar elements. This report...
CBS and city of Zwolle join forces
infrastructure, data processing and privacy protection
Statistical disclosure control
Statistics Netherlands is required by law to protect the privacy of its respondents as well as it can. This process, called statistical disclosure control, can be carried out in various ways. This...
Predictive inference for non-probability samples
Non-probability samples provide a challenging source of information for official statistics, because the data generating mechanism is unknown. Making inference from such samples therefore requires a...
Smart data use wins Zwolle Smartest Inner City award
facts-based operations approach and collaborative team spirit
International election observation and assessment of elections
On 8 and 9 April 2011, an international Expert Meeting took place on the monitoring and assessment of elections. It was the first time election observers from the academic world, politics and...
Annual Report Youth Monitor 2016 Summary
Annual Report Youth Monitor 2016 Summary
Physical water accounts for the Netherlands
Compilattion of water accounts
Technology festival: smart solutions for society
Corporate news article on Technology festival: smart solutions for society
Towards a better health expectancy
Statistics Netherlands (SN) has been publishing figures on health expectancy (HE) for several years. So far we have published about various variants of health expectancy, broken down by various...
Amount saved in life course schemes increases for the first time
Last year, employees saved 908 million euro in life course schemes, an increase by over 10 percent relative to 2008. They withdrew more than 164 million euro in 2009, over 35 percent more than in the...
Explosive growth in use of CBS open data
More than 3.2 million CBS open data retrievals in the second quarter of 2018 alone
Business panels
The primary goal of business panels is to obtain estimates of the turnover, including estimates of the changes of the level of the turnover. Panels can also be used for obtaining observations on...