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In 2007, bookshops again sold more books, newspapers and magazines. Though there is an increase in online buying, bookshops remain the most important sales channel, accounting for 55 percent of total...

Dutch inflation was 2.3 percent in September, just as in July and August. Prices for air tickets had an upward effect on inflation in September, but prices for new cars had a downward effect. On...

List of of international trade in services classifications.

Rents of residential property were raised by 2.8 percent on 1 July 2009, the most substantial increase since July 2004. The harmonisation accounts for 0.4 percentage points of the rent increase.

Building costs, wages and materials

In February the turnover of the Dutch manufacturing industry was again higher than a year before. Compared to February 2004 turnover was up by 6 percent. The turnover increase is virtually the same...

In September 2004 turnover of the Dutch manufacturing industry was 9 percent up on September last year. This was mainly due to higher selling prices. Production fell in the period August – September...

The number of jobs of employees was 89 thousand (1.1 percent) lower in the fourth quarter of 2012 than twelve months previously. In the first three quarters of 2012, too, the number of jobs was lower...

The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for October 2010 stood at 410 thousand, i.e. 2 thousand fewer than in September.

After correction for seasonal effects, 379 thousand people were unemployed in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2007.

Adjusted for seasonal variation, 400 thousand persons (5.1 percent of the Dutch labour force) were registered as unemployed in February 2011. The number of unemployed remained stable in February.

Dutch retailers realised 1.4 percent more turnover in the third quarter of 2010 than in the same period last year.

In the third quarter of 2012, 82 thousand jobs of employees were lost relative to the third quarter of 2011, i.e. a decline by 1.0 percent.

In the first quarter of 2009 there were 23 thousand more jobs of employees than in the same quarter of 2008. This brought the number of jobs to 7.9 million.

In December 2018, prices of owner-occupied dwellings (excluding new constructions) were on average 8.4 percent higher than in the same month in 2017.

The carriage of goods by inland waterways has risen by 3 percent last year. Total turnover increased, but has as yet not reached the pre-recession level.