Data project

Municipal Person Registration, Income Tax declarations, Labour Force Survey

Gemeentelijke Basisadministratie (GBA), Aangiften Inkomstenbelasting (IB), Enquête Beroepsbevolking (EBB)

Summary

Strengths: The data provides full coverage of the Dutch population, has great linkage and is also in time. Data provided is also of high quality. Weaknesses: The registry uses the de jure population and has a separate estimate of the illegal population.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry + Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

Data gathering method
Registries

Access to data

Conditions of access
Data cannot be downloaded directly.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymized microdata

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected between 1995 and 2012; data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future. It is an integral observation of the Dutch population.

First year of collection
1995

Stratification if applicable
Not applicable

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Entire Dutch population

Age range
No age restrictions

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Household attributes, such as type of household, number of children.

Linkage

Standardisation

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other person databases through anonymised personal number.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Household structure is not evident for the small part of the entire population; imputation of household structure, using Labour Force Survey information.

Breaks
Methodological break: improvement in the method by using household-information from income tax declarations from 2011 onwards.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Terminology is consistent in time.

Governance

Contact information
Department of Demographic Statistics
Statistics Netherland
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
Url:

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually and is available 9 months after collection.