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Less paid into company savings schemes
Dutch employees deposited a total 783 million euro in accounts for life course savings schemes in 2008. This is more than 7 percent less than in 2007.
No further fall in job vacancies
The number of job vacancies did not fall further in the fourth quarter of 2003. After correction for seasonal effects, there were 100 thousand job vacancies at the end of December 2003. This is 7...
Slight job increase
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.
Dutch economy shrinks by 1.1 percent
According to the first provisional estimate, the Dutch economy shrank by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year.
Economic growth -0.7 percent in 2003
Dutch economic growth was minus 0.7 percent in 2003. The last time the gross domestic product decreased in the space of one year was in 1982. GDP was 0.4 percent down in the fourth quarter of 2003 on...
SDG 5 Gender equality
Latest data contributing to worldwide monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 Gender equality. SDG 5 advocates equal treatment of and an equal position in society for men and women. In...
CBS Urban Data Centre / The Hague
CBS and the municipality of The Hague are collaborating in a CBS Urban Data Centre / The Hague as of 26 September 2017.
Emissions to air on Dutch territory; road traffic
Air pollution, emissions and emission factors of road traffic by vehicle category, fuel type and road type
Provinces invest 1.1 billion euro in youth welfare
Provincial authorities have estimated the youth welfare budget for 2011 at 1.1 billion euro, i.e. 11 percent of their total provincial budget. Thus, child and youth welfare is one of the main tasks...
Increase collectively agreed wages slows down further
In the third quarter of 2009, CAO wages were 2.4 percent higher than one year previously. The increase is evidently lower than in the first two quarters.
Costs of social security amount to 179 billion euro in 2010
In the Netherlands, 179 billion euro ((30 percent of the total amount earned by all Dutch together) was spent on social security last year. Unemployment benefits rose most rapidly by 12 percent...
Household consumption up in the third quarter
The volume of domestic household consumption in the third quarter of 2004 was up by 0.6 percent on the same quarter of 2003. This increase occured mainly at the start of the quarter.
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.
6% of international graduates set up a company here
Six percent of international alumni from Dutch universities set up a company in the Netherlands.
Standard Industrial Classifications
The Dutch Standaard Bedrijfsindeling (SBI 2008) is based on the activity classification of the European Union (NACE) and on the classification of the UN (ISIC).
CBS Urban Data Centres: local policy insights
CBS Urban Data Centres: local policy insights
Sustained decline unemployment
Unemployment declined by an average of 6 thousand a month over the past three months and stood at 463 thousand in March.
Retail turnover over 3 percent up in 2018
The Dutch retail sector achieved 3.3 percent turnover growth in 2018. In the month of December, turnover grew by 2.3 percent.
Surinamese and Antillean parents most frequent recipients of childcare allowances
Requests for childcare allowances were submitted for 30 percent of children under the age of twelve in 2008.
Relatively many young women with a doctorate
At the end of 2005 72 thousand people in the Netherlands had a PhD. This is less than one in a thousand people.
Drenthe's economy suffered most during recession
The economy in the province of Drenthe deteriorated most during the recession period 2008-2012, the province of North Brabant performed best in the face of the recession. The sectors manufacturing...