Life style; personal characteristics
| Characteristics | Margins | Periods | Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older Smoking status Former smokers (%) | Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older Former cigarette smokers Smoking years former smokers (number) | Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older Former cigarette smokers Quitting years former smokers (number) | Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older Drink status Former drinkers (%) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Informal care giver (%) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Hours of informal care per week (number) | Giving informal care, 16 years or older Strained informal care givers (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 33.0 | 19.6 | 22.6 | 11.9 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 15.7 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 31.9 | 19.0 | 21.9 | 11.1 | 13.0 | 10.8 | 13.4 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 34.2 | 20.2 | 23.2 | 12.7 | 14.7 | 14.2 | 18.3 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 31.8 | 19.5 | 22.3 | 12.1 | 13.5 | 12.7 | 16.1 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 30.8 | 18.9 | 21.6 | 11.3 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 13.8 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 32.9 | 20.0 | 22.9 | 12.8 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 18.6 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||
Table explanation
This table contains data on life style of the Dutch population in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics.
Data available from: 2014.
Status of the data: final.
Changes by March 14, 2024:
Data about 2023 have been added.
Figures about laughing gas have been added. The questions about nutrition have changed in 2023.
That is why a new series for nutrition will be started in 2023 and the old series of figures on nutrition (2014-2022) will no longer be added.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2024 will be published in the second quarter of 2025
Description topics
- Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older
- Questions on smoking behaviour are asked to persons aged 12 years or older.
- Smoking status
- Former smokers
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who answered No to the question: Do you ever smoke? and Yes to the question: Have you ever smoked?
- Former cigarette smokers
- Smoking years former smokers
- Number of years that a former cigarette smoker aged 12 years or older has smoked cigarettes.
- Quitting years former smokers
- Number of years since former cigarette smokers aged 12 years or older quitted smoking cigarettes.
- Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older
- The questions on consuming alcohol are asked to all persons aged 12 years or older.
- Drink status
- Former drinkers
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older that answered ‘No’ to the question: ‘Did you ever drink an alcoholic beverage during the last 12 months, such as beer, wine, spirits, mixed drinks or cocktails? Beer without alcohol or containing only little alcohol does not count.’, and ‘Yes’ to the question: ‘Did you ever drink alcohol?’ From 2020, this question has been changed to: ‘Have you ever drunk alcohol in the past 12 months, for example beer, wine, spirits, mixed drinks or cocktails? By this we also mean low-alcohol beer, but not non-alcoholic beer’.
- Giving informal care, 16 years or older
- Informal care (in Dutch: mantelzorg) is care given to an acquaintance in ones surroundings, e.g. a partner, child or friend, if this person is sick for a long time, infirm or handicapped. Informal care can consist of doing housework, washing and dressing, companionship, transportation, arranging financial matters and so on. Informal care is not paid.
- Informal care giver
- Percentage of persons giving informal care. The informal care has lasted for at least three months already, or there must be at least 8 hours of care per week.
- Hours of informal care per week
- The average number of hours of care given per week, by an informal care giver.
- Strained informal care givers
- The percentage of informal care givers who report fairly heavily strained, very heavily strained or being overloaded by that care.