Leefbaarometer: Neighborhood Quality of Life Scores for the Netherlands, 1998-2012

1998-2012 data on quality of life across all Dutch neighborhoods and municipalities, updated biennially. The Leefbaarometer provides scores reflecting the situation, developments, and backgrounds of neighborhoods. It is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in neighborhood quality of life based on biennial updates from 1998 to 2012.
• Compare socioeconomic conditions across municipalities, postal codes, and neighborhood clusters.
• Model the relationship between neighborhood background factors and quality of life scores.
• Monitor for negative developments in specific districts using the indicator's stated purpose.

Strengths

• Covers seven distinct measurement years (1998, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012), enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Provides data at multiple geographic levels: municipal, postal code, neighborhood, and cluster.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 license, allowing for unrestricted reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; the description states biennial updates, but freshness beyond 2012 is unverified.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

1998-2012

Freshness

Biennial updates (according to description), but last known data point is from 2012.

Geography

Netherlands (all neighborhoods and municipalities)