Crime victimisation (survey)
⌇ 2021: Veiligheidsmonitor survey redesign; bridged core only
Known criticisms of this statistic
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CBS redesigned the Veiligheidsmonitor in 2021 — new questionnaire, internet-only collection — and states the results are 'no longer one-to-one comparable' with earlier editions. This chart starts at the redesign; its figures cannot be extended backwards to the pre-2021 surveys.
— CBS (its own methodology note), Veiligheidsmonitor 2021 · CBS: Veiligheidsmonitor 2021, inleiding
The headline covers traditional crime only — theft, violence, vandalism. Online crime (fraud, hacking, digital harassment) is tracked as a separate category and is not in this count, even though it affects a comparable share of adults and moves differently.
— CBS, Veiligheidsmonitor 2021 · CBS: Veiligheidsmonitor 2021, online criminaliteit
Source & method
| Source | CBS 85146NED |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 (CBS) |
| Trend method | OLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention) |
| Revisions | None recorded since 2026-07-07. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here. |
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Data table — Crime victims (Netherlands)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.0 |
| 2023 | 19.9 |
| 2021 | 17.1 |