🇳🇱 Dutch CBS Statistics Scraper

🚀 Export official Netherlands statistics in seconds. Population, jobs, energy, GDP, housing, education, transport. Pull the full CBS table catalog or extract any dataset by table ID with server-side filtering.

The Dutch CBS Statistics Scraper taps Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the official producer of Dutch government statistics, and returns 13 structured fields per record. CBS publishes the underlying data as open machine-readable tables that cover population dynamics, the labour market, GDP, regional economy, energy consumption, education, agriculture, healthcare, mobility, and dozens of other domains.

The catalog covers thousands of tables spanning every Dutch municipality, neighbourhood, age group, sector, and statistical theme, with new releases and revisions added every business day. This Actor surfaces the catalog and pulls dataset rows on demand, with OData filtering, column selection, and ordering passed straight through to the source so you skip building yet another OData client.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
EU researchers, NL-focused analysts, government and policy teams, economists, journalists, demographers, urban planners	Population and migration tracking, labour market dashboards, regional GDP benchmarks, energy and emissions monitoring, housing affordability studies, education and healthcare research

📋 What the Dutch CBS Statistics Scraper does

Two modes in a single Actor:

• 📚 Catalog mode. Browse the full CBS table catalog with titles, identifiers, themes, summaries, and modification dates.
• 📊 Table mode. Pull rows from any CBS table by ID (e.g. 82931NED population, 83765NED jobs, 85003NED regional indicators).
• 🔎 OData filter. Narrow rows with native CBS filter syntax (e.g. AantalInwoners_4 gt 100000).
• 🎯 Field selection. Return only the columns you need with select.
• 📐 Ordering. Sort by any column (e.g. AantalInwoners_4 desc).

Every record includes the table ID, title, short title, identifier, summary, modification date, language, catalog, status, and a clean data object with the actual statistical row.

💡 Why it matters: CBS is the single authoritative source for Dutch official statistics. Building your own OData client means dealing with table metadata, codelists, dimension keys, and CBS-specific encoding quirks. This Actor delivers structured rows you can load into BI, notebooks, or pipelines in minutes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: catalog, data, identifier, language, modified, reasonDelivery, recordType, scrapedAt, shortTitle, summary, tableId, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Dutch CBS Statistics Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Run catalog mode to discover tables, then table mode with a tableId.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) or any Dutch government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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