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The sector hotels and restaurants improved 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2012 relative to the same period one year previously.

In the second quarter of 2013, the sector hotels and restaurants realised a turnover growth of 0.6 percent relative to one year previously.

In January 2006 households spent 1.5 percent more on goods and services than in January 2005.

Dutch inflation was 1.6 percent in October 2007, i.e. 0.3 percentage points up on September.

Prices of existing owner-occupied dwellings sold in May 2012 were on average 5.5 percent down on May 2011. According to the price index of existing residential property – a joint publication by...

Household spending on goods and services rose by 2.0 percent in April 2007 relative to April 2006. It is the most substantial increase so far this year.

In the period March-May 2008 an average of 313 thousand people was unemployed. This equals 4.1 percent of the labour force. A year earlier the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent.

Retail turnover grew by 3.0 percent in February relative to the same month last year. Price increases in the retail sector averaged more than 2 percent, turnover volume increased nearly 1 percent.

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year public loan, averaged 3.3 percent in June 2011, i.e. 0.1 of a percentage point down on May. The interest rate...

The amount of hours worked in temp jobs increased for the fourth time in a row. In the first quarter of 2011, it grew by nearly 6 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.

Adjusted for seasonal variation, there were 123 thousand unfilled vacancies at the end of December last year, i.e. 10 thousand fewer than one quarter previously.

According to the latest figures, retail turnover improved 0.5 percent in May 2011 relative to May 2010. This is entirely due to an average retail price increase of 2.7 percent.

In the first six months of 2011, more than 58 thousand people left the Netherlands, i.e. nearly 5 thousand more than in the same period last year.

In the first quarter of 2013, turnover generated by the sector hotels and restaurants was 1.7 percent down from one year previously.

On average, 390 thousand persons were unemployed in the period June-August 2009, i.e. 5.0 percent of the labour force, as against 3.8 percent one year earlier.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment reached 403 thousand in the period August-October 2009, breaking the 400 thousand barrier for the first time in nearly three years.

Economic growth in Utrecht and Flevoland exceeded 4 percent in 2007, as against 3.5 percent nationwide. Flevoland maintained its leadership position, but has to share it with Utrecht.

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 2.9 percent in July 2010. The rate remained unchanged relative to the preceding month.

Since 2010, CBS has increasingly used scanner data in calculating indices for the consumer price index (CPI).

The retail turnover was 4.0 percent lower in February 2010 than in the same month last year.

The mood among consumers has lifted in July. The consumer confidence index stood at -14,  versus -18 in June. Confidence improved after a gradual decline in the preceding months.