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'LAT partners' choose freedom
8 percent of Dutch people in a relationship are not cohabiting. A quarter of these people wants their relationship to remain this way in the future. Why?
More than one fifth of people living apart engaged in LAT relationship
Part of the people living alone are not single: over twenty percent of adult people and parents living alone are engaged in LAT. LAT relationships are more common among younger than among older...
More old-age pensioners, but the number who are living together with their adult children remains stable
The number of over-40s with at least one parent still alive has risen tremendously over the past decade. Despite the increase, the number of households where adult children are living together with...
More and more people access the internet to find partners
The internet is widely used as a means to find a steady relationship. More than 13 percent of couples who started living together in the past half decade met on the internet. Older and divorced...
People living with a partner are happier
Approximately 9 in 10 adults in the Netherlands feel happy. This applies in particular to people living together with a partner.
Nearly 900 thousand job seekers
In the first quarter of this year, 883 thousand people were looking for a job of twelve hours a week or more. The number has not been this high in the past six years. Nearly half of people willing to...
Emigrants in their fifties and sixties wealthier than same-age Dutch residents
Dutch people who emigrate between the ages of 50 and 70 are on average richer than their peers who stayed in the Netherlands.
Increasing number of boomerang children
An increasing percentage of young adults return to live with their parents for a time after having left home. The main reasons for this increase in the number of ‘boomerang children’ are relationship...
Most students who move elsewhere to study stay in the same part of the country
Annually, 96 thousand 18 to 21-year-olds move to another municipality, often to embark on a study in higher vocational education or university. They often settle in one of the major cities or...
More people living together opt for cohabitation agreements
On 1 January last year, 820 unmarried couples were living together in the Netherlands. More than half had cohabitation agreements.
Wider income gap between single mothers and mothers with partners
The disposable income of single mothers is considerably lower than that of cohabiting or married mothers. The average disposable income of single mothers was 15 thousand euro in 2008, as against...
Three quarters of all young people want to marry
In the first nine months of 2009 there were fewer marriages than the year before. In 2009 as a whole there will be about 72 thousand marriages, 3.5 thousand less than in 2008. This decrease has to do...