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Altogether 17 different main goals have been set by the UN for sustainable development

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...

News article CBS and The Hague unite ambitions in a new UDC

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...

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...

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

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...

infrastructure, data processing and privacy protection

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...

The Netherlands is well matched with the other leading nations in ICT. Telework has expanded rapidly: half of all companies in the Netherlands facilitate telework. More and more Dutch people buy...

This publication contains the results of Eurostat’s International Sourcing Survey for Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The figures refer to 2007.

facts-based operations approach and collaborative team spirit

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...

Compilattion of water accounts

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...

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...

Background information to: Adequate measurement of the economy CBS studying issues around measurement of the new economy

Dutch consumption of renewable energy levelled off in 2007.

How do Dutch enterprises act in response to resurgent global protectionism and to what extent has their trade been affected by (raised) import tariffs?

Dutch ports handled a total of nearly 570 million tons of goods in 2014. Nearly half (48 percent) was carried by coastal shipping also referred to as short sea shipping. The rest of the goods were...

Time-based diary surveys collect data over specified time intervals and impose a heavy response burden.

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