Table 1 Characteristics of 15 studied Dutch municipalities in 2000–2008
Municipality | Number of residentsa | Number of births 2000–2008 | Number of neighbourhoods | Number of births in low SES (<p20)b, N (%) | Number of births in non-western women, N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Almere | 193,163 | 19,302 | 5 | 2789 (14.4) | 5996 (31.1) |
Amsterdam | 790,110 | 90,535 | 8 | 58,944 (65.1) | 41,897 (46.3) |
The Hague | 502,055 | 53,712 | 24 | 27,125 (50.5) | 22,856 (42.6) |
Enschede | 158 048 | 15,312 | 10 | 8103 (52.9) | 3006 (19.6) |
Four villages in the province Groningen | 309,244 | 5850 | 4 | 3282 (56.1) | 515 (8.8) |
Groningen city | 193,127 | 17,372 | 10 | 7689 (44.3) | 2499 (14.4) |
Heerlen | 89,016 | 6864 | 12 | 5663 (82.5) | 1008 (14.7) |
Nijmegen | 165 182 | 15,519 | 10 | 7254 (46.7) | 2529 (16.3) |
Rotterdam | 616,260 | 64,353 | 15 | 46,218 (71.8) | 30,755 (47.8) |
Schiedam | 76,244 | 5715 | 7 | 3350 (58.6) | 2312 (40.5) |
Tilburg | 207,580 | 20,354 | 10 | 9548 (46.9) | 4528 (22.2) |
Utrecht | 316,275 | 37,519 | 10 | 1289 (34.4) | 10,110 (26.9) |
The Netherlands | 16,730,348 | 1,584,800 | NA | 399,999 (25.2) | 257,383 (16.2) |