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Dossier Historical series
Dossier Historical series
The Caribbean Netherlands in figures 2013
The booklet ‘The Caribbean Netherlands in figures’ provides a brief overview of key figures concerning the economic and social situation in the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, St...
Export value of goods (trade)
The value of all goods, including costs insurance freight (CIF) up to the Dutch border. The goods are domestically produced or imported.
Taxes on products
Taxes payable per unit produced or traded. They are related to the value and volume of the product and apply to produced and imported products.
Redundancy Pay Fund
Fund paying out unemployment benefits for a maximum of six months for employees who worked in the branch of industry right before they became unemployed.
Company course
A training or course financed in part or in total by the employer. Courses within secondary vocational training (bbl) are not included.
Brown coal (incl. sub-bituminous coal)
Coal with a calorific value less than 23,865 megajoule per kilogram and a content of volatile matter of more than 31 percent (ash-free dry weight).
Coal tar
A tough black liquid mass. It is used in the preservation of iron, underwater treatment, underground constructions in concrete or steel, the outsides of ships, wooden sheds, barges and boats.
Employee
A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.
Pension benefits
Private social security benefits of old- age pension insurance, life insurance or insurance against disability taken out by employers for their employees at pension funds and life insurance companies.
Inventories
Assets consisting of goods and services produced in the current or earlier period which are kept on for sales, use in the production process or another future use.
Employer-paid social insurance premiums
The part of social insurance premiums paid by employers.
Entrepot flow
Transit goods at customs stored for a definite period in a bonded warehouse (a storage space in the Netherlands for goods on which import duties and levies still have to be paid.)
Purchase value not elsewhere classified
Purchase value of commodities, services etc. not elsewhere classified.
Premium transfer
A premium from the salary/ benefits paid by the employer or social security institution as a compensation for social security premiums paid by the employees or recipients of benefits.
Social security contributions
The contributions paid by employers to social security. These include imputed and actual social premiums and actual pension premiums.
Communication costs
Walkie-talkies, (mobile) phones, fax machines, Internet, e-mail, messenger services, etc.
Compulsory social premiums
Premiums employers and employees have to pay on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions) , ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment)
Dutch Standard industrial classification (SBI 2008)
The Dutch classification of economic activities used by Statistics Netherlands since 2008 to list companies by their main activity.
Compulsory social contributions
Premiums payable by the employer on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions), ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment) as well as premium transfers.
Dutch Standard industrial classification (SBI) 1993
The Dutch classification of economic activities used by Statistics Netherlands since 1993 to list companies by their main activity.
Costs of services provided by others
Costs of banking (excluding interest and exchange rate loss) + insurance premiums paid (not elswhere classified) + costs of accountants/administration/advice/ legal advice/ computer services by...
Recession
Stage of the economic cycle characterised by decreasing growth in economic activities. This is measured as a decreasing growth of the volume of the gross domestic product or a growth that is below...
Primary coals
Solid, fossil fuel existing of carbonized rests of vegetal origin. Hard coal, brown coal and peat are primary forms of coal, which means the coal is not transformed in coal products, the secondary...
Business cycle
The up and downturns of the economy within a five to ten year period. Usually there are the following phases.: recovery, boom, recession, and depression.