Decisio Report

The IWCN, together with other Expat Centers and the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, commissioned a report concerning trends involving internationals living in the Netherlands. The aim was to determine how many internationals were economically active or studying in the Netherlands in this period, and to discover the most relevant trends with regards to their social-demographics (i.e., nationalities, ages, genders, purpose of stay, business sectors, family situation, housing, salary brackets, municipalities, etc.)

The company Decisio gathered data for the years 2009-2013 from the Belastingdienst, Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs (DUO) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this survey. The survey included knowledge migrants and labor migrants who were employed by companies in the Netherlands, international students enrolled in universities and colleges, and international freelancers or consultants. The Decisio team did not include international workers who are still paid from their foreign companies but work in the Netherlands, nor did they include PhD scholarship workers who are paid from their EU University.

The 84-page report (in Dutch) is full of interesting information and includes national statistics as well as statistics per region. For the Northern Netherlands, the regions included the provinces of Fryslân, Groningen and Drenthe and the gemeenten Groningen, Assen, Eemsmond, Emmen, Heerenveen, Leeuwarden, Smallingerland, Hoogezand-Sappemeer and Ten Boer. Some of the highlights for the Northern Netherlands are indicated on the accompanying InfoGraphic. The complete report can be obtained from the IWCN.