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Complementing official health statistics with internet search indices
This study investigates if and how internet search indices can contribute to a quantitative picture of health (related) topics in the Netherlands.
More than 200 thousand victims of skimming or phishing
Last year, 1.5 percent in the Dutch population aged 15 years and older (more than 200 thousand individuals) fell victim to identity fraud while using ticket machines, cash dispensers or browsing the...
The internet essential for fifty thousand businesses
More than 50 duizend businesses in the Netherlands rely on the internet for their revenues.
The digital economy 2009
Dutch ICT skills continue to increase and more and more people in the Netherlands are using mobile devices to access the internet. At home, laptops are increasingly replacing desktop computers, and...
Measuring online platforms
Measuring online platforms: definitions, actors and statistical challenges
Dutch among top online shoppers in Europe
Around seven in ten Dutch people aged 16-75 years shopped online in 2011. This figure reflects the continuing increase in online shopping in the Netherlands, and places the Netherlands among the top...
The Netherlands in the European top in internet banking
Nearly 4 in 5 Dutch people aged 16-75 do their banking online. This brings the Netherlands to the top of the European Union.
Measuring the internet economy with big data
A discussion paper on measuring the internet economy in the Netherlands in 2016-2018 with big data. This study repeats a similar study from 2016 for the year 2015.
Establishing the accuracy of online panels for survey research
Establishing the accuracy of online panels for survey research
The Internet of Things, 2020
Supplementary tables with percentage shares of the population aged 12 and over who used and did not use the Internet of Things (IoT) at home in 2020
CBS, Google and Dataprovider develop new method to measure internet economy
The resulting new method is to shed further light on the size of the internet economy in the Netherlands.
Increase in online shopping among older generation
The number of people in the Netherlands making online purchases has increased further. So far in 2018, 78 percent of Dutch consumers say they have made a purchase via the Internet, as against 76...
Fewer newspaper subscriptions
In 2008 about 50 percent of the Dutch indicated that they had a newspaper subscription in their household. In 1997 this was 62 percent.
Dutch internet skills above EU average
The Dutch population aged 16-74 years became more skilled in using the internet between 2010 and 2013. The level of internet skills in the Dutch population is higher than average in the European Union
More purchases being made online
Dutch consumers increasingly use the Internet to make everyday purchases
Three percent of online buyers and sellers victims of fraud
In 2012, 3 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 years or older reported that they had been a victim of online fraud when buying or selling goods or services online. This is the equivalent of...
The ESS report 2012
This first edition of the ESS Report provides information on the organisation and structure of the ESS and some of its key achievements and initiatives in 2012. It examines an increasingly important...
Dutch couples increasingly meet online or at work
More and more Dutch couples are meeting via the internet or at work, while fewer people met on an evening out or on holiday in the last ten years.
Retail turnover up in March
Dutch retail turnover was 2.2 percent higher in March 2012 than in the same month last year.
Retail turnover growth 0.8 percent
According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, retail turnover was 0.8 percent up on one year previously in January 2012.
11 percent more online purchases in first half of 2020
In the first half of 2020, 71 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over – around 10.7 million people – purchased something online.
No home internet access for 1.2 million Dutch people
The Netherlands has the highest percentage of households in the European Union with home internet connections. Only one in eight Dutch people have either no access to the internet from their own home...