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Children from low-income families less often participated in club activities than children from high-income families in 2006. They also went on holiday less often.

Background file on population and immigration.

Happiness, satisfaction with life, Contacts, social trust, household composition, unofficial hulp

In 2008, 385 thousand Dutch minors were at risk of growing up in poverty. This means that 11.5 percent of children below 18 years of age grow up in families with incomes that do not exceed 120...

One in five underage asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands last year were not accompanied by an adult relative.

After years of decline, the number of single parents dependent on income support has risen since 2008. The increase predominantly occurred among single parents with a non-western background.

Many Syrians and Eritreans have a residence permit and housing, but most depend on social welfare.

In October 2015, the number of newly registered asylum seekers and family members joining asylum seekers increased to 11.7 thousand, more than in any other previous month. The total in September was...

Nearly 15 percent of all underage children in the Netherlands lived in a one-parent family in 2014. Families within which children grow up have changed in the last fifteen years. More 0-17-year-olds...

The number of underage children at risk of poverty has increased in 2011. In the provinces of South Holland and Groningen, more children grow up in poverty than in other provinces. In more than half...

Drop-out rates in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) range from 10 percent after one year in school to nearly 20 percent after four years.

Paid employment accounted for the main income of 68.5 percent of one-parent families in 2007. This is a higher share than in 2005, when nearly 63 percent of one-parent families received most of their...

Slightly over half of Dutch young people between the ages of 15 and 24 occasionally do volunteer work.

Requests for childcare allowances were submitted for 30 percent of children under the age of twelve in 2008.

By the end of 2011, there were 34 thousand underage children who had lost one of their parents and 330 who had lost both parents. Each year, more than 6 thousand underage children are (semi-)orphaned.

The number of children placed under guardianship has increased considerably in recent years. In 2007, 10.6 thousand children were placed under guardianship.

Jobs and wages of employees at enterprises in the Netherlands by locus of control and enterprise size