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Large families less likely to use formal child care
Families with three or more children under 13 years of age use formal childcare provisions less often than smaller families.
Nearly a quarter of immigrants transfer money to the countries where their families live
Nearly one quarter of households with a foreign background report to have transferred money abroad, predominantly to the countries where their parents, relatives or friends live.
Many Caribbean households consist of extended families
Just over one in ten households in the Caribbean Netherlands comprise relatives in addition to the nuclear family. These extended families in one household are rare in the Netherlands. Nearly half of...
One-family home
Every dwelling that forms the entire property. This includes detached houses, semi-detached houses, farms with dwellings and all terraced houses.
Family-related immigration to the Netherlands, 2007 (Dutch only)
At the request of Berenschot consultancy, Statistics Netherlands' Centre for Policy Related Statistics has composed a set of tables on immigration to the Netherlands of migrants with family-related...
Contributing family worker
A person who works, not on the basis of a an explicit employment contract, in the company or practice of the partner or parents.
Single parent family with at least one under aged child
Private household consisting of one parent and at least one child who is under age and lives at home, without any additional members.
Pupils from high-income families more often fall back to lower level of education
In the school year 2004/’05, more than185 thousand new pupils were registered in secondary education. Three years later, nearly 26 thousand of them attended the middle management vocational track...
Fewer very large families
The number of families with four or more children living at home has dropped dramatically over the past decade. The decline was more substantial among families with a non-western background than...
Twice as many asylum seekers and following family members in 2015 as in 2014
In 2015 a total of 56.9 thousand asylum seekers and following family members applying to be reunited with their families were registered in the Netherlands.
Children from one-parent families more likely to switch to lower school type
Eleven percent of pupils in the first year of one of the vocational tracks of preparatory secondary vocational education (vmbo) who did not repeat a year had advanced to a higher type of education...
One in seven underage children live in a single-parent family
The population of the Netherlands includes 3.5 million underage children. One in seven of these children live with just one parent. This proportion varies strongly between municipalities.
Much fewer families moving house
The number of people moving house in the Netherlands was 45 thousand lower in the first four months of 2009 than in the same period last year.
Low incomes transferred to the next generation in families with non-western background
People who grew up in low-income families – in particular people with a non-western background –often have low incomes themselves.
Syrian immigrants often live in a family setting
A total of 29 thousand Syrians registered as residents of a Dutch municipality in 2014 and 2015. Syrian immigrants are young compared to other recent immigrants in the Netherlands and they often live...