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4 in 10 adults describe their stepfather as father
Nearly 1 in 5 adults born 1971-1991 did not live with both parents during childhood.Three-quarters went through parental divorce. Over 4 in 10 describe their stepfather as their father, 2 in 10 are...
Fewer young couples getting married
In 2017, 64.4 thousand marriages were contracted and 17.9 thousand civil partnerships were registered in the Netherlands.
Increase social security benefits 22 thousand in 2009
The amount of social security benefits to persons younger than 65 rose by 22 thousand in 2009.
Measuring commercial property prices
Is the ubiquitous vacancy of retail space reflected in its property price developments? And how have the prices of office buildings developed since the credit crisis?
Nearly nine in ten over-65 households have extra incomes in addition to AOW
Altogether, 1.8 million households received old age state pensions (AOW) in 2010. Nearly nine in ten households received supplementary pensions and approximately as many generated revenues from...
Bonaire: purchasing power up again in 2015
In 2015, the median purchasing power of Bonaire’s local population improved by 3.6 percent.
Large income gap between working fathers and mothers
In 2011, the average gross annual wage of female employees was 33 thousand euro, i.e. 55 percent of the average income of their male colleagues who earned 58 thousand euro. The gender income gap is...
Half of social security benefits go to families with children
Nearly half (49 percent) of the 330 thousand people on social security have children, but there are considerable differences between native Dutch and people with a non-western background. Native...
Three quarters of all young people want to marry
In the first nine months of 2009 there were fewer marriages than the year before. In 2009 as a whole there will be about 72 thousand marriages, 3.5 thousand less than in 2008. This decrease has to do...
Number of households will grow by 50 thousand annually until 2025
Until 2025, the number of households in the Netherlands will grow by 630 thousand to 8.2 million, as the household survey conducted by Statistics Netherlands shows. The annual increase by 50 thousand...
Households annually spend 6 thousand euros on leisure activities
According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, Dutch households annually spend 6 thousand euros on leisure activities, i.e. 18 percent of total household spending. They...
Poverty down in 2006 and 2007, but unchanged in 2008
In 2006, 623 households in the Netherlands had a low income. According to the budget-based thresholds 382 households (not-much-but-enough-to-get-by), and 233 thousand households...