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Regional innovation in the Netherlands, Community Innovation Survey 2010 (Dutch only)
Custom-made tables on innovation by region. Final version. To compile these tables, Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy Related Statistics has regionalised the Community Innovation Survey (CIS...
Green space never far away in the Netherlands
For 89 in every 100 Dutch residents, a green space, e.g. a park, a public garden, an open natural space or a wooded area is within a distance of 1 kilometre.
Demography in districts of Bonaire, yesterday and today
In the last decade the population of Bonaire has grown by almost 50 percent. In the preceding thirty years, the increase of 10 percent per decade was much smaller. The population growth is mainly the...
Highest economic growth in North Brabant, Utrecht and Flevoland
According to the latest figures, nearly all provinces achieved economic growth last year. North Brabant, Utrecht and Flevoland enjoyed the fastest economic growth, but in the province of Zeeland the...
France third largest market for international road transport
Dutch hauliers carried nearly 6 million tons of goods from the Netherlands to France in 2010, making France the third largest market for international road transport after Germany and Belgium....
Majority of Dutch Caribbean population born on former Netherlands Antilles
The majority of the Dutch Caribbean population were born on one of the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles. In most cases, they were born on the island where they currently live or on an...
Income data by 4-digit postcode area, 2009 (Dutch only)
This publication contains information on disposable household income by 20%-groups per 4-digit postcode area, municipality, district and neighbourhood. For each 20%-group, the number of persons and...
Dutch Caribbean population exceeds 21 thousand
The Dutch Caribbean population comprises more than 21 thousand people, i.e. 15.7 thousand on Bonaire, 3.6 thousand on St Eustatius and 1.8 thousand on Saba.
People who stay behind in regions where the population is diminishing are less well-off
In regions where the population has shrunk over the period 2005-2008, people’s socio-economic conditions have worsened.
Record exam passes for mbo students
These are a few conclusions from the Jaarboek onderwijs in cijfers 2011, an annual report with statistics on education in the Netherlands (published in Dutch only) released today.
Refugees in the Netherlands 2010 (publication 3) (Dutch only)
Concluding report on various demographic, regional and socio-economic characteristics of refugees in the Netherlands in 2010. Commissioned by: VluchtelingenWerk Nederland.
9 percent of cannabis coffee shops in the vicinity of schools
The coalition agreement stipulates that cannabis coffee shops must be located at a distance of at least 350 metres from the nearest school. Last year, 58 coffee shops in the Netherlands were located...
Towards sustainable choices - a nationally and globally sustainable Finland
Sustainability Report of Finland (2007)
Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2009. An update of the UK Government Strategy indicators
Sustainability Report of UK
No increase asylum seekers from Arab countries to the Netherlands
Political and social upheaval in the Arab region have lead to 7.6 thousand asylum applications in the first four months of this year in the countries of the European Union (EU), nearly twice as many...
Sharp rise in Dutch Caribbean inflation in second quarter
Inflation on the islands making up the Dutch Caribbean was substantially higher in the second quarter of 2011 than in the first quarter. The rate was highest on St Eustatius, at 10.5 percent, up from...
National Landscape conservation areas cover one fifth of the Netherlands
The 20 National Landscape conservation areas in the Netherlands cover nearly 900 thousand hectares, i.e. more than 20 percent of the total Dutch land area.
Unemployment down
According to the latest figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment totalled 392 thousand in June 2011, a reduction by 9 thousand from May.
Diversity in the workplace, 2009 (Dutch only)
Data for the diversity index were compiled about jobs providing the top 10 gross annual incomes, the in and outflow of these jobs, and the total number of jobs. The data are broken down by sex, age,...
Sustained expansion built-up area
The Netherlands is still an agricultural country, if land use is taken into account.
Shorter average distance to nearest after-school care facility
The average distance to the nearest after-school care facility was 900 metres in the Netherlands in 2010.
Two in three Bonaire residents work
In 2010, 10.7 thousand people aged 15 years or older lived on Bonaire; 7.1 thousand of them had a job, which puts the labour participation rate for the island at 66.6 percent.
Amsterdam has highest proportion of long-term low incomes
Households who have been living on low incomes for four years or more are mainly found in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. Four in ten municipalities with the greatest risk of long-term poverty...
High proportion of benefit recipients in provinces of Limburg and Groningen
The number of people relying on social security varies widely across the Dutch provinces.