Income and spending

Income and spending

1. Consumer confidence unchanged
2. Foreign guests spend record 9 billion euro in the Netherlands
3. Consumption continues to grow fast
4. Credit card use continues to increase, but more slowly
5. Consumer confidence closely matches sentiments at the stock exchange
6. Dutch drinking less coffee
7. Consumer confidence marginally down
8. Robust growth consumption
9. Most women earn less than their partners
10. Increase purchasing power at 65
11. Beer: production and exports up, consumption down
12. Women's pension build-up still trailing
13. Consumer confidence unchanged
14. Household consumption grows 2.1 percent
15. Born poor .
16. Widowhood hits women harder than men
17. Large differences in spending between young and old
18. Nearly one billion euro saved in life course schemes
19. Randstad residents have highest disposable income
20. Modest consumption growth in May
21. More women economically independent
22. Households had a lot more to spend in 2006
23. The Netherlands relatively wealthy nation
24. Average income Dutch household approximately 50 thousand euro
25. Upward trend in household spending continues in April
26. Marginal decline purchasing power in 2005
27. Modest rise in consumption in February
28. Poorest neighbourhoods in the north and east
29. Three times as many income support benefits in problem districts
30. One in nine income support claimants is 27 or younger
31. More manufactured cigarettes, fewer hand-rolled cigarettes smoked
32. Lower natural gas consumption keeps down consumption growth
33. One million households receive rent rebate
34. Poverty mainly found in four largest cities
35. Smaller income differences within conurbations
36. Household consumption up again