The Netherlands Institute For Social Research / Scp At A Glance

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The Netherlands Institute for Social Research supplies central government<br />with information on the Dutch welfare state. For more than 30 years,<br />the scp has been charting developments in the daily lives of the Dutch<br />population: work, income, health, education, social security, housing,<br />culture, how they spend their time and their opinions on a whole range<br />of subjects. The scp also shows how government policy does or could<br />influence these aspects.<br />Each year, scp publishes around 50 reports. This book contains extensive<br />summaries of a selection of sixteen recent publications which provide a<br />good impression of the kind of research carried out by scp and the many<br />social themes that scp covers in its research projects.<br />This book offers the reader a varied cross-section of summaries of our<br />research projects in areas such as the daily life of ethnic minorities, school<br />dropout, monitoring elderly policy, part-time working in the Netherlands,<br />the presumed and actual effects of social safety policy, trends and<br />problems regarding informal caregiving, governance in primary and<br />secondary education, public interest in cultural websites, and many more<br />topics.