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Simulation studies of sampling methods to spread or reduce response burden faced by businesses through participation in CBS surveys.

Statistical output, e.g. totals or means of a target variable, are often published for subpopulations that are defined by categorical domain variables (such as categories of educational level,...

An analysis of firm and worker contributions to the foreign acquisition wage premium in the Netherlands.

Starting from the reporting month of June 2023, new data sources are being used at Statistics Netherlands for CPI-Energy, along with a new method specifically designed for detailed data analysis....

Area and yield per vegetable Area, yield, kind of vegetable

Data protection legislation came into effect in 1988, with the Personal Data Protection Act. Legislation had already been adjusted prior to this to prevent census data being used for purposes other...

Using Kalman equations, we derive straightforward formulas for the total imputation variance for several imputation methods commonly used in regression analysis and (un)equal probability sampling...

area and yield per crop province

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) regularly asks Dutch people to participate in one of its surveys. A survey is conducted by random sampling. This video explains what this entails. Would you like to know...

Deaths by medical end-of-life decision, age and cause of death

One of the most fascinating and longstanding CBS statistics is the population census of the Netherlands.

Few statistical offices were as advanced as CBS. Only Denmark and Finland conducted their censuses in the same way, using registers. Unique for the Netherlands was that it used survey data to fill...

Number of stages, distance and time travelled per stage/person per day modes of travel, travel purposes, age and sex

Census tables were published in 2004 (for the 2001 census). Census taking had become desk work, thanks to the use of registers (e.g. the Municipal Records Database). No more enumerators going out...

Total transport performance in passenger kilometres modes of travel and region characteristics

Area and yield per crop Province

Seasonally adjusted vacancies only totals

CBS launched a communication offensive to highlight the importance of the census. Leaflets were delivered to four million households, television and radio broadcasts informed the public about the...

A truly international reference work, with 36 chapters covering the latest state of play in all facets of business statistics production.

Discussion paper about a method to estimate detailed mobility trends corrected for discontinuities

Average distance travelled per trip, average time travelled per trip modes of travel, purposes of travel and region characteristics

Percentage traffic participation, public transport participation personal characteristics,

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) celebrates its 125th anniversary this month.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recently released a new handbook, ‘Synthetic Data for Official Statistics’, to help get statistical institutes started in producing their own...

Young adults in the Netherlands face a variety of economic challenges: employers are giving out more temporary contracts, income growth is stagnating, students have to take on more debt, there’s an...