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Happiness, satisfaction with life, Economic self-reliance, financial independence

In 2008, there were more than 640 thousand self-employed without personnel (ZZP workers) in the Netherlands. Their number has risen sharply over the past twelve years but in the second quarter of...

Some 60 thousand new dwellings were completed In 2003. This is 11 percent less than in 2002 and the lowest number of dwellings completed since 1953. The worst seems to be over, however, since the...

Happiness, satisfaction with life, Urbanisation

In the third quarter of 2010 there were 708 thousand self-employed people without personnel in the Netherlands, up 27 thousand on the previous year. The economic crisis slashed the number of...

Brief survey description Integral income and wealth statistics

In recent years, the number of men in their 40s who become fathers has continually grown. In 2006, about 24 thousand babies were born whose fathers were in their 40s, i.e. 14 percent of all babies...

In the Netherlands people entitled to benefits received 159 billion euro in social security payments in 2008. This is the equivalent of about 27 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, which is what...

Entrepreneurship, firm turbulence, fast growing enterprises, propensity towards entrepreneurship and self - employment rate broken down by region

The population of the Netherlands increased by 83 thousand persons from mid 2009 to mid 2010.

In the first quarter van 2012 there were over 570 thousand self-employed service providers in the Netherlands without personnel. Almost half was highly educated, and the most common profession was...

Dutch judges pronounced 32.6 thousand divorces in 2007. A total of 34.7 thousand underage children were involved in these divorces.

The number of residential building permits issued in 2006 exceeded 96 thousand, the highest number in nearly a decade.