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Overtime
Hours worked extra over and above the normal working hours and fully paid.
Minimum wage
The legal minimum on 1 January for the wage of a fulltime employee.
Dependent labour force
The section of the labour force pertaining to people working in paid employment.
Woods and open nature area
Area in use as woods, dry or wet open natural area.
Final consumption for energetic purposes
Final use of energy as a source of power or heat.
Economically independent
Situation in which personal income from primary sources exceeds 70 percent of the net minimum wage.
Labour relationship
The distinction between jobs with a fixed contract and jobs where the contract is flexible.
Passenger-kilometre
Unit of measurement for transport of persons, representing the transport of a passenger over one kilometre.
ZFW
Abbreviation of the Dutch law: Compulsory health insurance act (ZFW).
Other private social benefits
These are benefits paid by employers out of special reserves, which are segregated from their other reserves.
Partner (household)
Someone who forms a couple with someone else in a private household.
Social benefits in cash
Benefits paid by social insurance institutions, financed by premiums (unemployment, disability, sickness, old age).
Producer confidence
Mood indicator for short-term developments in industrial production based on the opinions and expectations of producers.
Reduced working hours
A reduction of working hours based on the Buitengewoon Besluit Arbeidsverhoudingen 1945 art 8.1.
Pension premiums
Premiums paid on the basis of collective contracts with pension funds or life insurance companies.
Saving (of a sector)
The part of the disposable income of a sector that is not used for consumer spending.
Early retirement fund
Foundation carrying out the early retirement scheme for a given company or branch of industry.
Person with a Dutch background
Person of whom both parents were born in the Netherlands.
Sickness absence rate
The ratio between the number of cases of sick leave and the number of employees.
Degree of capacity utilisation of machinery/installations
The degree to which a company used its means of production.
Rhine and Meuse river
Waterways originating from the river Rhine and the river Meuse, including their tidal rivers.
Land use, classification
Functional classification of mutually exclusive categories which together encompass the entire surface of the Netherlands.
Trend follower
Employee who is not a civil servant but whose salary is linked to civil servants’ salaries.
Arts student
Someone who has signed up for a course in the arts of more than twenty weeks.