Search results

The Centre for Policy Related Statistics has been commissioned by childcare foundation Nijmegen to compute results for the use of official child care provisions, broken down by various...

Childcare provided by day care centres, after-school care and voluntary care were the main types of childcare in 2009 for more than half of the 1.4 million households in the Netherlands with one or...

The number of parents receiving childcare allowances is rising continually. In 2009, there were more than half a million recipients, an increase by 11 percent relative to one year previously.

The Centre for Policy Related Statistics has been commissioned to compute further provisional results for the use of official child care provisions, broken down by various characteristics, among...

The Centre for Policy Related Statistics has been commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam to compute provisional results for the use of official child care provisions in the districts of...

Mothers working long hours, more often use formal child care facilities than mothers with small jobs.

In 2007, 60 percent of Dutch households where the mother had attained a high education level made use of childcare facilities. This is nearly twice as often as for households where the mother was...

In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.

One in four Dutch children were cared for in an official day-care provision in 2007. This is more than in 2006, when one in five children were in official childcare.

One in five mothers who do not work or who have a part-time job want to work for more hours a week. Their reason for not doing so is hardly ever a shortage of suitable childcare.

In 2006, 490 thousand children, i.e. one in five, in the age category under 13 attended facilities like childcare, after-school care or care provided by registered host parents.

The inflation rate over 2006 averaged 1.1 percent, unprecedented since 1989.

Spending on health care and welfare in the Netherlands amounted to 61.5 billion euro in 2005. This is 2.8 percent more than in 2004.

The total amount on save-as-you-earn accounts was halved in 2005. Many employees saving through these schemes made use of the opportunity to withdraw their money prematurely.

In March 2005 the volume of domestic household consumption was 0.2 percent down on the same month last year. The slightly reduced consumption level is entirely caused by a cutback in spending on...