Statistics Netherlands

Data cited at:  CBS StatLine databank https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/portal.html?_la=en&_catalog=CBS Publication: Persons with dispensed medicines; age and sex https://opendata.cbs.nl/portal.html?_la=en&_catalog=CBS&tableId=81071ENG&_theme=1012 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   This table contains figures on the absolute number of persons to whom in the year concerned medicines were dispensed for which the costs are reimbursed under the statutory basic medical insurance. The figures are also expressed as a percentage of the total population in the category concerned. The population includes everybody registered in the Personal Records Database (BRP) and living in the Netherlands at some point in the year concerned. Until 2010 the figures also included medicines dispensed to persons registered in the BRP, but no longer resident in the Netherlands. Medicines provided to persons in hospitals and nursing homes are not included; medicines provided in residential homes for the elderly are included. Data are broken down by medicine group, age and sex. Data available from: 2006 Status of the figures: Figures for 2016 are provisional. Remaining figures are definite. Changes as of 8 December 2017: - Figures for 2015 have been made final and figures for 2016 have been added. - The underlying coding of classifications used in this table has been adjusted. It is now in line with the standard encoding defined by CBS. The structure of the table has not been adjusted. When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the last quarter of 2018.

Data cited at:  CBS StatLine databank https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/portal.html?_la=en&_catalog=CBS Publication: Persons with dispensed medicines; background and generation https://opendata.cbs.nl/portal.html?_la=en&_catalog=CBS&tableId=81072ENG&_theme=1012 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   This table contains figures on the absolute number of persons to whom in the year concerned medicines were dispensed for which the costs are reimbursed under the statutory basic medical insurance. The figures are also expressed as a percentage of the total population in the category concerned. The population includes everybody registered in the Basic Registration of Persons (BRP) and living in the Netherlands at some point in the year concerned. Until 2010 the figures also included medicines dispensed to persons registered in the BRP, but no longer resident in the Netherlands. Medicines provided to persons in hospitals and nursing homes are not included; medicines provided in residential homes for the elderly are included. Data are broken down by medicine group, background, generation, age and sex. Data available from: 2006 Status of the figures: Figures for 2016 are provisional. Remaining figures are definite. Changes as of 17 January 2018: - Figures for 2015 have been made final and figures for 2016 have been added. - The underlying coding of classifications used in this table has been adjusted. It is now in line with the standard encoding defined by CBS. The structure of the table has not been adjusted. - The terms ‘People with a Dutch background’ (in Dutch: autochtoon) and ‘People with a foreign background’ (in Dutch: allochtoon) have been revised. They have been replaced by ‘Native Dutch people’ and ‘People with a migration background’ respectively. The terms in this table have been replaced as a result, including (where applicable) the underlying encodings. When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the last quarter of 2018.