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We use statistics to build up our knowledge about society. This is an age-old idea of what statistics are for. In the words of Jan Ackersdyck, professor of statistics in Utrecht in the mid-19th...

Globalisation and digitisation make it increasingly difficult to measure the economy.

ESA transactions government sector; revenue and expenditure on current and capital account, net lending/net borrowing on financial account

Renewable energy, final use and avoided fossil energy and avoided CO2 wind, solar, hydro, geothermal energy, aerothermal heat and biomass

In Q4 2020, gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.1 percent relative to the previous quarter. In 2020, the economy shrank by 3.8 percent year-on-year.

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in March has hardly changed compared to the previous month.

In the period December through February, the number of people aged 15 to 74 in paid employment grew by an average of 13 thousand per month. The number of employed stood at more than 8.9 million at...

Import and export value of goods; according to SITC classification (3 digit) and country (groups).

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports today that similar to previous months, the economic situation in the Netherlands has improved further on nearly all accounts .  In November 2015, most...

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in January 2015 is about the same as in December, but the economic recovery is still fragile.

The economic situation according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer has become less unfavourable in August.

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...

Bankruptcies by region and company characteristics: legal form, number of employees, life time, main activity, regions

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

CBS: organisation, mission, anual plans, history

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs launched the ‘CBS/EZ Departmental Data Centre’

According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), which is based on currently available data, gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 8.5 percent in Q2 2020 relative to Q1...

Employment data, business returns, business costs and profits Economic sectors (SIC'93) in services

This study is carried out jointly by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Integration and Statistics Netherlands. The report with the outcomes and conclusions of the study, Het wonen overwogen,...

CBS and DNB will better match their respective mandatory surveys for companies serving as reporting agents

CBS mapping goods flows

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in mid-April is slightly less favourable than in the previous month.