Trade and industry; employment and finance per sector, SIC 2008
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
This table shows relevant economic data for trade and industry sectors, e.g. the number of persons employed, costs and revenues, turnover and other financial results. The figures can be divided by a number of sectors/ branches according to Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities 2008 (SIC 2008).
Data available from: 2009.
Status of the figures:
All data in the table are definite.
Changes as of May 6, 2024:
Figures of 2022 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Results are made available circa 15 months after the year under review. In March/April 2025, new figures will be published for 2023.
Description topics
- Jobs
- A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.
A distinction is made between jobs of employees and jobs of self-employed persons.- Employee
- A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.
- Employed person
- Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an
institution or private household in the Netherlands.
- Labour volume persons employed
- The volume of labour input in the production process, in terms of hours worked or full-time equivalents.
- Employee
- A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.
- Employed person
- Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an
institution or private household in the Netherlands.
- Operating returns
- The results from normal business activities, this is the sales of goods
and services, the value of stock changes, the activated production for the company, subsidies and damage claims.
Since 2007, wage cost subsidies are no longer included.- Total
- Net turnover
- Business returns, excluding VAT (value added taxes) from the selling of goods and services to customers. Turnover is calculated after deduction of discounts, bonuses, returnable deposits and on-charged freight costs
Customers could be private persons and companies outside (the Dutch part) of the concern.
- Other revenues
- Revenues that are not part of net turnover.
These are:
- the value of changes in stock, including work in progress;
- payments for personnel on loan;
- activated production for the company;
- subsidies and export restitutions;
- compensation for damages.
- Operating costs
- The costs made to achieve the operating profits, that is the purchase value of the turnover, labour costs, and depreciation on assets, and other business expenditure.
Since 2007, wage (cost) subsidies are no longer included in net
operating returns. Therefore, wage (cost) subsidies are deducted from operating costs.- Total
- Purchase value of sales
- The costs of raw materials and semi-manufactured goods, packaging materials, trading goods, wages for work hired for the production of the goods and services used in the production within the reporting years.
- Total
- Costs of raw and auxiliary materials
- The costs are the total of the value of the initial stock plus the costs
of the purchased materials minus the value of the closing stock
Including import duties, costs of transport, import levies European Union,
transport insurance and temporary storage.- Total
- Initial stock of raw and auxiliary mater
- Initial stock of raw and auxiliary materials and packing material.
The value on the balance sheet of raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products), packing material at the start of the period under review.
- Purchased raw and auxiliary materials
- The value of purchased raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products) and packing material for single use in the production process.
Includes import duties, costs of transport, import
levies European Union, transport insurance and temporary storage.
Excludes discounts, bonuses, goods returned, returned packing, VAT and received repayments of import duties, excises and levies.
- Closing stock raw and auxiliary mat.
- Closing stock of raw and auxiliary materials and packing material.
The value on the balance sheet of raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products), packing material at the end of the period under review.
- Costs of commodities
- Costs of commodities sold in the year under review.
Commodities purchased for the purpose of resale without any
further processing,including import duties, costs of transport, import
levies European Union, transport insurance and temporary storage
The costs are the total of the value of the initial stock plus the costs
of the purchased commodities minus the value of the closing stock- Total
- Initial stock of commodities
- The value on the balance sheet of commodities at the start of the period under review.
- Purchased commodities
- Goods acquired for the purpose of reselling them without further
processing. Includes costs of single use packing material, import duties, costs of temporary storage.
Excludes discounts, bonuses, goods returned, returned packing and received repayments of import duties, excises and levies.
- Closing stock of commodities
- The value on the balance sheet of commodities at the end of the period under review.
- Payments to subcontractors
- Costs of outsourced activities, including costs of any materials supplied by the subcontractor.
- Purchase value not elsewhere classified
- Purchase value of commodities, services etc. not elsewhere classified.
- Personnel costs
- This category comprises expenses like
- gross wages and salaries of employees, including social
security and pension scheme contributions
- payments for temporary workers and hired personnel
- costs of schooling and training
- recruitment and selection costs
- canteen costs
- costs for health and safety provisions
- working clothes
- anniversary celebrations, etc.- Total
- Gross wages and salaries
- The category gross wages and salaries refers to employees on the payroll
and includes
- wages including employees' contributions to social insurances minus sick pay;
- bonuses, holiday allowances, thirteenth month payments and dismissal payments
- allowances for commuter traffic
- contributions to savings schemes
- Insurance premiums and other costs
- Employers' social contributions: The premiums paid by employers to social security on the gross wages.
These include imputed and actual social premiums and actual pension premiums, and payments made directly by the employer.
other social insurance costs:
- contributions to health insurance;
- costs of staff relocation and housing;
- costs of child care, etc.- Total
- Employer-paid social insurance premiums
- The part of social insurance premiums paid by employers.
From 2021 onwards this subject is only available as part of the 'Insurance premiums and other costs
- Other personnel costs
- Other personnel costs
This category includes:
- payments for temporary workers and staff on secondment;
- costs of schooling and training;
- recruitment and selection costs;
- canteen costs;
- costs for health and safety provisions;
- costs for work clothes;
- anniversary celebrations, etc.
- Other operating costs
- The sum of the energy costs, transport costs, housing costs, costs of machinery, inventory, installations etc, other personnel costs, sales costs, communication costs, service costs and other costs not specified elsewhere.
- Total
- Costs of energy use
- The costs of fuels used to power an energy source, for light and/or heat.
Not included are the costs of fuels used by means of transport or that are
used as raw materials, and also the costs for the use of water and the
costs for technical or compound gasses.
- Housing costs
- Including rent, lease and repair and maintenance of housing and premises,
cleaning services and insurance premiums water consumption, furniture, etc
- Equipment and inventory costs
- Rent and lease of machinery, equipment and computers (excluding software)
and (office) furniture and equipment.
- Transport costs
- Costs related to means of transport, including
- rental costs and lease costs
- repair and maintenance
- costs of insurances and road tax
- fuel costs.
- Sales costs
- Costs of sales and promotion, including advertising, commercial fairs,
representation, goodwill, travel and hotel costs and costs of research and
development by third parties.
Since 2006 costs of research and development by third parties are
included in the group 'Costs of other services'.
- Communication costs
- Walkie-talkies, (mobile) phones, fax machines, Internet, e-mail, messenger
services, etc.
- Costs of other services
- Costs of services provided by others not classified elsewhere.
These costs include:
- banking costs (excluding interest costs and currency losses)
- insurance premiums paid to third parties (not classified elsewhere)
- research and development costs by third parties, - -
- accountancy, legal aid and assistance, etc.
- ICT services provided by third parties, including hardware and software
- separately paid transport costs
- costs of waste disposal and waste processing
Since 2006 costs of research and development by third parties are
included in this group.
- Other liabilities
- This category includes costs and payments for activities like licenses,
copyright, royalties, lease and rent of software, overhead costs and
taxes, office supplies, etc.
- Depreciation fixed assets
- Depreciation of durable means of production, e.g. machinery buildings,
transport equipment, computers and software due to normal usage and
economic obsolescence. Depreciation of intangible assets, e.g. costs of
research and development, acquisition of intellectual rights and goodwill.
- Operating results
- Operating returns minus operating costs.
- Net financial income
- Total revenues and profits minus costs and losses of:
- interest;
- participations;
- dividends;
- loans;
- investments;
- other financial items. - Balance of provisions
- The additions to provisions minus released provisions such as run-up and reconstitution funds, maintenance reserves, guarantee provisions, etc.
- Net extraordinary income
- Revenues minus costs not related to normal operational management, such as costs resulting from reorganisations, book profits and losses from the sale of a company or other assets, including tangible and intangible fixed assets. Depreciation of questionable debtors also is included in this item.
- Pre-tax results
- The sum of the operating results, the financial results, the balance of
provisions and extra-ordinary results.