This was reported by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Thursday afternoon in a second estimate of the Dutch economy. In the first calculation, published on 13 February, the statistics office amounted to a growth of 0.5 percent.
The higher result of 0.3 percentage points is attributed by CBS to upward revisions investment in buildings and infrastructure. The overall picture of the Dutch economy has remained unchanged. Growth in 2014 as CBS writes “broad”.
This emphasizes the statistical agency that the economy should not be more heavily on exports and re-exports, but also can lean since last year on the household expenditure. “The economy is back on two legs,” said Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank, as earlier.
Finally, the investments contributed positively to growth, only the government gave little less in the last quarter of 2014. The general government deficit was 2.3 percent in 2014, which is the same percentage as in 2013.
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Gross domestic product
Unemployment
The labor market is there something better for according to the second calculation of the CBS. In the fourth quarter, there were 50,000 jobs of employed persons more than in the third quarter. On February 13, an increase of 42,000 was reported.
Compared to the same quarter a year earlier, there were 74,000 jobs created, that number is compared to the first calculation remained the same. According to the latest calculations of the CBS, there were 633,000 people unemployed in February.
Adjustment
The second calculation of the fourth quarter, have also adapted the growth rates of the first three quarters in 2014. The first quarter was revised from -0.3 to -0.4 percent in the second quarter from 0.6 to 0.7 percent in the third quarter from 0.2 to 0.3.
This new publication on the Dutch economy, there are more and new data become available. So there is more information about the business services, construction and catering. Because of this more complete picture districts some calculations CBS slightly
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