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Over 6 in 10 working parents in the Caribbean Netherlands with children under age 12 used formal childcare at least once every week in 2022.

Four out of 10 parents of children under the age of 18 would prefer to divide work and care tasks equally.

In 2021, childcare benefits were paid for over 1 million children. The number of children with parents receiving a childcare allowance has been rising since 2015, although growth has levelled off in...

In 2019, expenditure on care and welfare, including child care, amounted to 106.2 billion euros.

Three-quarters of Dutch children below the age of 3 was in childcare in 2014, the highest share of all EU countries.

The Dutch government cut back on child care allowances in the period 2009-2013.  The subsequent higher child care costs have resulted in young children spending fewer hours in formal child care....

Last year, total spending on care rose by 1.6 percent, i.e. less than in prior years. This is partly due to the fact that the growth in medicine consumption slowed down and the average price level of...

In 2013, the number of children attending day care centres has fallen for the second year in a row. On 31 December 2011, 322 thousand 0 to 3-year-old children attended day care centres versus 284...

The Dutch tax authorities paid out over 2.4 billion in child care compensation in 2012. This is about 400 million less than in 2011.

In 2011 over half million Dutch parents received child care allowances. The costs of child care per parent averaged close to 7,300 euro. The parents themselves paid nearly 2,000 euro of this. The...

Dutch child care costs rose to 3.9 billion euro in 2011. Nearly 40 percent of the Dutch population feels that financing child care is primarily a task of the parents themselves.

Use of childcare facilities by quarter, neighbourhood and type of childcare in the municipality of Deventer. Commissioned by: Deventer municipal authorities.

Use of childcare facilities by quarter and type of childcare in the municipality of Den Bosch. Commissioned by: Buitenhek Consultancy.

Use of childcare facilities in the Netherlands by municipality and type of childcare.

Use of childcare facilities by quarter and type of childcare in the municipality of Amsterdam. Results are available on request.Commissioned by: Amsterdam municipal authorities.

Use of childcare provisions by district in the municipality of Den Bosch. Commissioned by: Buitenhek management & consult.

Use of childcare provisions by district in the municipality of Lansingerland. Commissioned by: Buitenhek management & consult

Some 264 thousand workers in the Netherlands were entitled to parental leave in 2009. Only 79 thousand actually took this leave.

The Dutch government spent nearly 10 billion euro on income-dependent allowances for housing, care and childcare in 2009. This is half a billion more than in 2008.

Childcare provided by day care centres, after-school care and voluntary care were the main types of childcare in 2009 for more than half of the 1.4 million households in the Netherlands with one or...

The number of parents receiving childcare allowances is rising continually. In 2009, there were more than half a million recipients, an increase by 11 percent relative to one year previously.

The Centre for Policy Related Statistics has been commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam to compute provisional results for the use of official child care provisions in the districts of...

Mothers working long hours, more often use formal child care facilities than mothers with small jobs.

In 2007, 60 percent of Dutch households where the mother had attained a high education level made use of childcare facilities. This is nearly twice as often as for households where the mother was...