Debt Indicators for Utrecht Households from Municipal Survey

Five indicators on household debt within the municipality of Utrecht, sourced from the CBS and the municipality's Research & Advice department via a population survey. The data is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under the theme 'Debts (Work & income)' on the Utrecht in Cijfers platform. The temporal coverage and last update date are unknown.

Use Cases

• Assess the prevalence of problematic debt among households based on the reported percentage indicator.
• Monitor changes in household financial stability based on the indicator for households reporting no debt.
• Analyze correlations between debt and other socio-economic themes using related datasets on poverty and income.
• Support municipal policy and intervention planning for debt assistance based on the count of households with registered problematic debts.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant theme with five defined debt indicators.
• Sourced from authoritative institutions: CBS and the municipal Research & Advice department.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unavailable, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; data freshness is unverified.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the municipality of Utrecht, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

CBS; Research & Advice, Municipality of Utrecht, Population Survey

Collection Method

Population Survey

Time Range

Unknown

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Utrecht municipality and its neighborhoods