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An increasing percentage of young adults return to live with their parents for a time after having left home. The main reasons for this increase in the number of ‘boomerang children’ are relationship...

Requests for childcare allowances were submitted for 30 percent of children under the age of twelve in 2008.

The monitor on diversity in youth policy, commissioned by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, has been developed by the Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy...

This paper presents information on young people (15-26 years) in the Netherlands in 2008. Among other things, it looks at young people in education, with a job and receiving social benefits?

In 2007 over 1.1 million people received the general levy discount, as against 1.3 million at the moment of introduction in 2001. In nine out of ten cases, the recipients of this subsidy mockingly...

Households with underage children received an extra 2,824 euro compensation on average through income and tax measures for families in 2007.

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.

Paid employment accounted for the main income of 68.5 percent of one-parent families in 2007. This is a higher share than in 2005, when nearly 63 percent of one-parent families received most of their...

People who grew up in low-income families – in particular people with a non-western background –often have low incomes themselves.

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...

Children from low-income families less often participated in club activities than children from high-income families in 2006. They also went on holiday less often.

On 1 May 2006, some 241 thousand people in the Netherlands were not insured for the costs of medical care. This 1.5 percent of the Dutch population.