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People who consider their own health as poor more often find it hard to make ends meet. They cannot afford a hot meal every other day or heat their houses properly.

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After correction for seasonal effect consumer confidence in the Netherlands is 3 points lower in September than it was in August. Confidence has been around -20 since July this year. This is the...

More than 4 percent in the Dutch population aged 16 years or older were socially ostracised in 2010. This group rarely participates in social activities, hardly has access to institutions, has poorly...

Last year, 12 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over had mental health complaints.

De sociale spanningen indicator is een experimentele tool die een actuele indicatie geeft van de mate van sociale spanning en emoties in de samenleving. De sociale spanningen indicator is een...

Residents of the four major cities in the Netherlands are least likely to feel safe in their own neighbourhood. City centres in particular make people feel uneasy.

Fewer and fewer people in the Netherlands encounter disrespectful behaviour. Discourteous attitudes among shop staff and public employees in particular have decreased

From today, the Netherlands officially complies with the new, highest standards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the compilation and publication of economic and financial statistics.

People working in jobs at elementary or lower level feel less healthy than those employed in higher-level jobs.

If the trend observed in the past three decades with respect to mortality and health is to continue, the age until which people in the Netherlands are free from physical limitations in mobility,...

The life expectancy for 65-year-olds has risen over the past three decades. They live longer and the period, during which they define their health as good after reaching the age of 65 is also longer....

Over one-fifth of the Dutch population aged 18 years or older consider themselves very happy. They rate their degree of happiness with a score of 9 or 10.

Life expectancy without physical limitations and in good self-perceived health is projected to rise until 2040.

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Residents of Bonaire felt safer in 2017 than in 2013.

People in paid employment are generally healthier than people without a job. Of all employed persons, 90 percent rate their health as good or excellent.

A health survey among residents of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba aged 15 and over shows that three-quarters felt healthy or very healthy in 2017/2018.

One of the cornerstones in the description of the economy is the measurement of price increases, or inflation. Alongside actually observed inflation, economists are also confronted by perceived...

We use statistics to build up our knowledge about society. This is an age-old idea of what statistics are for. In the words of Jan Ackersdyck, professor of statistics in Utrecht in the mid-19th...

Analysis of big data is becoming ever more important for governments to facilitate effective

In 2017, 23% fewer crime victims than in 2012. Police recorded crime per inhabitant dropped by 30%.