Netherlands - Primary Industries Employment

For the Netherlands, employment of employees and self-employed persons, with detail on jobs, full-time equivalent (FTE) employment, and hours worked. Quarterly and annual.

Active:

• National accounts framework: ESA 2010
• Activity classification: SIC 2008, the local adaptation of NACE Rev. 2
• Measurement: Thousands of persons (Ths. #)
• Adjustments:
  • Seasonally adjusted (SA)
  • Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequencies:
  • Quarterly
  • Annual
• Start dates:
  • 1995Q1
  • 1995
• Geo coverage: National

Predecessors:

• 1995Q1 to 2018Q1 ("_18")
• 1995 to 2016 ("_16")
• ESA 95 - 1995Q1 to 2014Q1 ("_E95")

Definitions

Employed person

Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an institution or private household in the Netherlands.

Jobs

A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.

Full-time equivalent (fte):

A measure of labour volume, calculated by converting all full-time and part-time jobs to full-time jobs.

Hours worked

The number of hours actually worked by someone with a paid job.

Employee

A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.

Self-employed person

According to the labour accounts someone is self-employed if they provide an income by working for their own account and risk in their own company or in an independent profession, or by working in the company as a family member.

Standard Industrial Classification 2008 (SIC 2008)

The Dutch heirarchic classificaiton of economic activities is used by Statistics Netherlands to classify private sector entities by main activity. The SIC 2008 is the bersion used since 2008. 'Sector of industry' or 'branch' is the common term used to define the businesses sharing the same main activity. Statistics Netherlands uses the classification by main activity, the so-called Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). Businesses in a sector of industry or branch may also be engaged in other activities (subsidiary activities). The SIC 2008 includes various levels indicated by a maximum of five digits. The four-digit level corresponds to the classification employed by the European Union (NACE). The first two digits correspond to the United Nations classification (ISIC).

Seasonal correction

The removal of annually recurring patterns from the figures which are normal for a particular time of year.

In June 2014, Statistics Netherlands began reporting data per the ESA 2010 framework. Data 1995Q1-2014Q1 and 1969-2012 are reported following ESA 95, and all figures are final. Currently, the source reports only data 2010-present in terms of ESA 2010; initially, all national accounts figures 2001-2010 are provisional, and the revision was not yet completed for years before 2011.

Further reading

At the source:

• survey methodology
• Table 84166ENG: Employment; quarterly; National Accounts (1995Q1-2024Q1)
• Table 84164ENG: Employment, economic activity, sex, NA (1995-2022)

Attribution

Some passages above were taken directly from the source, Statistics Netherlands.

• Apr 2012 - Initial version.
• Jul 2014 - Framework advanced to ESA 2010.
• Sep 2018 - Change in national accounts methodology.
• Jan 2025, Phillip Thorne - Properties.