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On 10 March 2023, the Council of Ministers approved the new Multi-annual Programme of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) for the years 2024-2028.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has made plans for the future based on discussions with stakeholders. The results are described in this Multi-annual Programme for 2024-2028.

In Dutch society, more and more decisions are being made by automated systems that use algorithms.

In 2021, people in the Netherlands were more pessimistic about the future society than in 2018.

Whereas the population of farmland birds in the Netherlands has declined, dragonfly distribution has increased.

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.

Employed and not employed, want to work, reasons to not want to work Sex, age, level of education

Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

Employed labour force Sex, characteristics, economic activities

Labour force, unemployment rate, labour participation Sex, age, level of education

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.

Perceived health, chronic disorders Sex, age, educational level

The price of energy, which has risen sharply over the past year, is in the news every day.

How can we make the algorithms used by the government as fair as possible, and what role could proper archiving play in that process?

Smoking, alcohol, height and weight, contraceptive pill Sex, age, educational level

On Wednesday 20 October 2021, Professor Frank Pijpers gave his inaugural lecture on Empirical explorations of a complex society at the University of Amsterdam.

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).

Labour force, unemployment rate, labour participation Sex, age, level of education

GP, specialist, dentist, fysiotherapist, hospitalisation, medicine use Sex, age, educational level

One of the two tracks in secondary vocational training introduced by the WEB (Adult and Vocational Education Act). In this track students spend 60 percent of their time of practical training within a...

Article about the official launch of the ‘Rijks Data Science Programme’,

The route most students take at university to get their master’s degree cost 148 thousand euros in 2012. This is the standard route including failing classes and delays. The shortest possible route...

Many first year students in higher professional education (hbo) in the Netherlands in 2012/’11 who opted for the shorter two-year programme are graduates from senior secondary vocational education...