FIRMBACKBONE provides a longitudinal, cross-sectional (panel data) database that contains information about all Dutch organizations with legal status. It consists of the corporate register and provides financial information via annual reports, employment information and information captured from organization websites with support for mode data. Depending on the source, different datasets are provided once or multiple times per year.

This is the FIRMBACKBONE Corporate Register database on Dutch organizations and consists of all organizations that are registered at the Dutch Chambers of Commerce. The data was obtained on December 21, 2023 and on February 5, 2024. Organizations founded after this date of organizations for which the entire bankruptcy process has ended and have no other legal liabilities pending (e.g. contractual commitments), are not available in this database. The granularity level of this database is at the establishment level. While available, using employment data from this dataset is discouraged since there is no legal obligation to keep this data up-to-date, especially since alternative databases are available in FIRMBACKBONE with better quality and mode detailed employment information

The dataset comprises two different waves concerning data obtained by KVK in:

December 2023 February 2024

The variables available in the dataset are listed under Social Science and Humanities Metadata> Notes. For more details, categories and descriptive statistics, see the codebook available for download at https://doi.org/10.34894/0HFSQZ.

The dataset includes organizations with legal status based in the Netherlands (Country, Province, City and 4-digit Postcode level)