October 17, 2003

Half a century of Dutch manufacturing; Annual Reports 1950-2000

This document describes the contents of a data base of eighteen manufacturing branches in the Netherlands, covering the second half of the twentieth century.

The data base contains annual profit- and loss accounts by branches of industry in nominal values, split into volume and price components, and the inputs of factors of production. Also the data base contains figures on Dutch imports of manufacturing products by branch. Boxes illustrate the diversity in development of the manufacturing branches, based on figures from the data base.

Authors

Herman Noordman
Johan Verbruggen
Bert Minne