The Netherlands Institute for Social Research supplies central governmentwith information on the Dutch welfare state. For more than 30 years,the scp has been charting developments in the daily lives of the Dutchpopulation: work, income, health, education, social security, housing,culture, how they spend their time and their opinions on a whole rangeof subjects. The scp also shows how government policy does or couldinfluence these aspects.Each year, scp publishes around 50 reports. This book contains extensivesummaries of a selection of sixteen recent publications which provide agood impression of the kind of research carried out by scp and the manysocial themes that scp covers in its research projects.This book offers the reader a varied cross-section of summaries of ourresearch projects in areas such as the daily life of ethnic minorities, schooldropout, monitoring elderly policy, part-time working in the Netherlands,the presumed and actual effects of social safety policy, trends
