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This paper presents information on young people (15-26 years) in the Netherlands in 2009. Among other things, it looks at young people in education, with a job and receiving social benefits....

Altogether, Dutch educational institutions had 127 million euro in the coffers in 2009. The financial surplus of schools was reduced over the past years.

Table with background characteristics of women aged 15 to 64 years, who were not claiming benefit, not employed and not in full-time education in 2006. The table complements an earlier publication...

Despite having paid jobs, 370 thousand households in the Netherlands were living below the poverty line in 2009.

In school year 2009/’10, approximately 30 percent of pupils who had left school prematurely in 2004/’05 had returned to school or otherwise obtained a basic qualification.

Study of the background characteristics of women aged 15 to 65 years, who were not claiming benefit, were not employed and were not in full-time education in 2006.The tables are available on request...

Commissioned by the Agency of Social Affairs and Employment, the Centre for Policy Related Statistics has compiled figures on the jobs of ESF participants. The figures show how many participants had...

The Dutch inflation rate stayed the same in October. Consumer prices were on average 1.6 percent higher than the year before, as was the case in September.

In recent years, the wage gap between men and women has gradually narrowed. Young men’s gross wages are on average approximately 10 percent higher than the wages of their female counterparts.

Reintegration support is an important tool to increase the number of people moving from a social benefit to work. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) measures the results of this...

At the request of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy Related Statistics has calculated figures on jobs and top incomes in the workplace for...

Shelf stacking, delivering newspapers and shop assistant are the most popular jobs secondary school pupils do next to their study.

The Centre for Policy Related Statistics was commissioned by the Nethelands Institue for Social Research to specify the share of cultural minority students in secondary school for school year...

Nearly 94 percent of 25 to 35-year-old higher educated no longer attending any form of education were employed in 2009. With 89 percent, the employment rate was also high among higher educated with a...

In the third quarter of 2009 there were 140 thousand jobs of employees less than in the third quarter of 2008. This is the biggest drop in over 25 years.

In 2008 spending on education totalled 37.6 billion euro. This is 2.4 billion euro more than in 2007.

Household spending on goods and services was 3.4 percent lower in September than in September 2008. In August, spending dropped by 3.8 percent. Domestic household consumption has been lower than one...

In the first six months of 2009, unemployment grew in those sectors where the number of male employees is relatively high, e.g. business services, manufacturing industry, trade and transport and...

Consumer confidence has built up over the past three quarters. People were far less negative about the economic situation in the next twelve months.

International education in the Netherlands is much more expensive than regular education and is largely funded with parental contributions.

Unemployment in the young population is rising rapidly; from 9.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to 11.4 percent in the same period this year. Young people are often the first to suffer the...

Students in Dutch higher education earned an average 5,250 euro in 2008, either through a job or through their own company.