Big data has received increasing attention across several disciplines in recent years. In official statistics, big data potentially enables us to produce statistics cheaper, faster, and on a higher level...
Time-based diary surveys collect data over specified time intervals and impose a heavy response burden.
This paper describes the search for a sensor system that is accurately and validly capable to recognise physical activity and its intensity. Different methods to estimate the intensity of physical activity...
CBS now makes statistics about road traffic intensities purely on the basis of road sensors
Innovative research has been carried out to see whether data from Rijkswaterstaat’s Information and Safety System (IVS) can be used to improve the added value and production value of inland shipping in...
The use of non-probability data as a primary data source in official statistics is currently an active field of research.
Description of activities of Center for Big Data Statistics
The third Sensor Data Challenge took place on 22 and 23 April 2021.
The research focuses primarily on surveys using mobile devices
CBS and the city of Eindhoven have embarked on a unique joint project
Expansion of maritime statistics: sea routes and cargo
Hay fever index
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has compiled a new population forecast based on recent data for the municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands. This paper outlines the most important findings and differences...
The end of last year saw the second edition of the Big Data Meets Survey Science conference online: the BigSurv20.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is constantly looking for new methods and techniques to meet the steadily growing demand for statistical information.
Society’s need to describe complex phenomena - such as the consequences of an economic crisis - is growing exponentially.
According to the European Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation stood at 13.6 percent in August, as reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). This was 11.6 percent in July.
The COVID-19 crisis has brought with it a great need for reliable data, and national statistical offices (NSOs) are playing an important role in this regard.
Inflation according to the HICP stood at 11.6 percent in July, as reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). It stood at 9.9 percent in June.
According to the HICP, the Dutch inflation rate stood at 10.2 percent in May 2022. This was 11.2 percent in April.
Employed persons, jobs, hours worked, also with seasonal correction employee or self-employed, economic activity
The area of land in use for housing, industry and infrastructure increased by 200 square kilometres from 2013 to 2020. The area of land in use for agriculture shrank by 244 sq km. The total area of nature...
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is continuously innovating, also in the field of business data collection. We are permanently on the look-out for new data sources and alternative ways of collecting data,...
Last year, 1,859 people took their own lives. This is 36 more than in 2020. There was a decrease in suicide deaths among women (-31) against an increase among men (+67).