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Nearly three quarters of the Dutch population aged 12 and over currently own one or more devices that are connected to the internet and transfer data to one another without human intervention.

The third Sensor Data Challenge took place on 22 and 23 April 2021.

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.

Production chains play a major role in the Dutch economy, but they are vulnerable to disruptions.

You have to deal with inflation every day. But how do you actually measure that? We do this with an index, the so-called CPI, consumer price index. This includes the price development of all goods...

On 14 March 2023, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) organised a Green Deal Workshop to focus on key issues such as climate change, energy, the environment and nature and their associated challenges and...

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.

Just recently, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) was the subject of an official Peer review, executed by the European Statistical System (ESS).

It’s hard to remember a time before unmanned aircraft – drones – took to the skies.

The Netherlands in numbers (2021 edition) answers 36 questions about our country by means of images and text.

How do you encourage residents to get involved in their local community?

This paper discusses how Statistics Netherlands managed to respond quickly with a range of new outputs following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. First, it describes the innovation process and...

The statutory task of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is to carry out high-quality statistical research for the government sector and academia.

In the first six months of 2020, nearly 80 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over used the internet to search for health information, book appointments with their general practitioner...

Society’s need to describe complex phenomena - such as the consequences of an economic crisis - is growing exponentially.

Monday 12 September marked the launch of the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen

At the UDC, data from the Municipality of The Hague can be combined with CBS’s data

Smart ways of monitoring solar power.

Monday 12 September marked the launch of the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen.

facts-based operations approach and collaborative team spirit

smart way in which sensors can be used to measure people’s health, lifestyle and living conditions

Corporate news article on Technology festival: smart solutions for society

(big) data and smart software as a means to create solutions to various social problems

Nearly all households in the Netherlands have access to the internet. Desktop computers are losing ground to mobile devices. Nearly half of Dutch households own at least one tablet computer.

Dutch ports are the backbone of the Dutch economy. To stay ahead of international competition, data traffic is playing an increasingly critical role. ‘Ports used to be all about goods, ships and...