Validity of Collective Agreements: SZW Interpretations as of January 2018

A source file from CAO research concerning the validity of collective agreements. The data reflects the interpretation of the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) as of January 2018. It is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in collective agreement validity based on SZW interpretations.
• Training models to classify or predict agreement status based on policy interpretations.
• Benchmarking labor policy compliance using the official interpretation framework.

Strengths

• Data originates from an official government ministry (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely an administrative compilation from CAO (Collective Labour Agreement) research.

Time Range

January 2018

Freshness

Snapshot is from January 2018; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Likely the Netherlands, inferred from the responsible ministry.