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The role of causal modelling in official statistics
Causal modelling is of interest to augment the interpretation of data published by national statistical institutes. An exploration of the relevant methods as well as a case study in the domain of...
Over 1 in 3 young Ukrainian refugees are in education
A total of 36 percent of Ukrainian refugees aged 15-22 in the Netherlands were in education on 1 October 2023
Education; education expenditure and CBS/OECD indicators
Education expenditure and (inter)national indicators. Government, households, companies, foreign, per education sector, % GDP.
Government; expenditure on education and student grants, loans since 1900
Government expenditure on education Per education sector, on student grants, loans and allowance, % GDP
Government Finance Statistics; key figures
Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt of the general government sector, in million euros and as a pecentage of GDP.
School size by type of education and ideological basis
Number of schools and pupils in the Netherlands School size, type of education and ideological basis
Synthetic data opens up possibilities in the statistical field
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...
Vacancies (new and filled); government and education
Vacancies, new vacancies and filled vacancies eight government sectors
Ensuring the quality of statistics using scientific methods
CBS uses scientifically proven methods to guarantee the quality of its products and services.
More women than men in higher education for 23 consecutive years
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.
CBS invests in statistics on climate change impacts
Collecting climate data should be just as routine for statistical institutes around the world as collecting data on the population or the economy.
An attempt to measuring fossil fuel subsidies by way of official statistics
The international statistical guidelines provide little guidance on how to account for fossil fuel subsidies. In this report we explore the already published estimates and make an attempt to define a...
Developing a material flow monitor for the Netherlands from national statistical data
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...
Statistics Netherlands reviews the year 2023
Statistics Netherlands reviews the year 2023.
Statistics on nature play crucial role in national and international policy
The figures published by CBS on nature in the Netherlands play an important role in all sorts of societal discussions, including the current debates on nirogen and biodiversity.
Caribbean Netherlands; pupils primary and students secondary education
Participants Gender, chararcteristics, region
Less overweight and obesity among children of higher educated parents
In the period 2018-2021, 12 percent of children aged 2 to 11 were overweight and 3 percent severely overweight (obese).
International reference work covers diverse business statistics expertise
A truly international reference work, with 36 chapters covering the latest state of play in all facets of business statistics production.
Young people relatively often choose secondary vocational education
After secondary education, young people up to the age of 25 are more likely to attend secondary vocational education (MBO) than higher vocational education (HBO) or university (WO).
The COVID-19 pandemic: how did it affect statistics?
On 27 February 2020, the first patient testing positive for coronavirus was reported in the Netherlands; the first COVID death was reported on 6 March.
International trade in goods statistics changed as of 2023
The international trade in goods statistics describe the monthly development of the import and export of goods.
Young technicians four times as often male
In 2022, there were 609 thousand young people (aged 15 to 34 years) in the Netherlands who had completed a technical education.
People with low education and migration background have lowest levels of well-being
People in the Netherlands with low levels of education and those with a migration background have lower levels of well-being than those with higher education and those without a migration background.
International experts apply yardstick to Statistics Netherlands
Just recently, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) was the subject of an official Peer review, executed by the European Statistical System (ESS).
Students worked 11 hours a week on average in Q3
In the third quarter of 2023, two-thirds of pupils in secondary education aged 15 or older had a part-time job.