Quarterly VOG Statistics 2024: Applications and Screening Outcomes

Quarterly figures from the Netherlands' Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations on the processing of Certificates of Conduct (VOG). The dataset includes counts of applications, issued certificates, and refusals for natural persons and volunteers, as well as permanent screenings for taxi drivers and childcare workers. It is published under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Tracking quarterly application and approval trends for Certificates of Conduct.
• Analyzing refusal rates for background checks across different applicant groups.
• Monitoring the volume of ongoing screenings for regulated professions like taxi drivers.

Strengths

• Data is structured by quarter, allowing for temporal trend analysis.
• Covers distinct applicant categories: natural persons, volunteers, taxi drivers, and childcare workers.
• Published by a national ministry, suggesting an authoritative source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands)

Collection Method

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Time Range

2024 (quarterly)

Freshness

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Geography

Netherlands