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Statistics Netherlands (known in Dutch as ‘Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek’ or CBS) is a name that the majority of Dutch people are familiar with.

R&D expenditure, source of funding, type of cost, implementation sector

The Netherlands received more than 2.9 billion euros in funding from the European Commission in 2022

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently published its updated Statistical Disclosure Control Guide, which sets out the policy rules for protecting respondents’ privacy in its publications.

Persons employed, FTE, R&D expenditure, company size, branch (SIC 2008)

Employed persons, years of work, enterprises with in-house R&D activities Sectors, businesses, institutions, institutions of higher education

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...

Collecting climate data should be just as routine for statistical institutes around the world as collecting data on the population or the economy.

In September 2024, a delegation from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine paid a study visit to Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS) has a highly diverse workforce that includes people of different ages, nationalities, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientation from various educational backgrounds...

The Dutch area of the North Sea is our country’s largest nature reserve, but it is also used intensively by maritime traffic and for wind farms, for example.

CBS uses scientifically proven methods to guarantee the quality of its products and services.

Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt of the general government sector, in million euros and as a pecentage of GDP.

Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt of the general government sector, in million euros and as a pecentage of GDP.

The international statistical guidelines provide little guidance on how to account for fossil fuel subsidies. In this report we explore the already published estimates and make an attempt to define a...

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...

The tables presented in this file are a supplement to the article “CBS switches to new method for calculating energy prices in the CPI”, published on 30 June 2023.

Causal modelling is of interest to augment the interpretation of data published by national statistical institutes. An exploration of the relevant methods as well as a case study in the domain of...

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

Mixed-mode adaptive survey designs have become a standard in many survey settings. Also the combination of mixing modes and adapting effort has been elaborated and applied. However, the focus has...

This paper shows how Statistics Netherlands managed the unexpected loss of CAPI respondents in social surveys during COVID-19. It covers efforts to reduce response loss, quantifies the impact of...

On 23 May 2024, CBS and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) published the first results of the revision of the Dutch macroeconomic statistics

The figures published by CBS on nature in the Netherlands play an important role in all sorts of societal discussions, including the current debates on nirogen and biodiversity.

On 27 February 2020, the first patient testing positive for coronavirus was reported in the Netherlands; the first COVID death was reported on 6 March.

Statistics Netherlands reviews the year 2023.