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Health and welfare

This page contains the indicators for the domain “Health and Welfare” of the National Youth Monitor.

At the moment, the English version of the National Youth Monitor contains only results for the years 2006 to 2010. If results are available for other years or periods (see the explanation of the indicator) they can be retrieved from the Dutch version of the site, or by contacting the Youth Information desk.

Indicators Health and welfare
Indicator	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Participation in preventive health care (%)	94.0	94.5	95.2	95.0	95.4
Positive health perception (%)	91.6	91.9	93.3	92.6
Mortality, perinatal (‰)	5.7	5.4	4.9	4.8
Mortality, infant (‰)	4.1	3.8	3.8	3.8
Alcohol, use (aged 12-18 years, %)	79.0
Alcohol, binge drinkers (aged 12-18 years, %)	35.6
Smoking, smoked recently (aged 10-19 years, %)	22	24	21	21
Smoking, intentions (aged 10-19 years, %)	2	2	2	2
Drugs: use of cannabis (aged 12-18 years, %)	16.7
Drugs: recent use of cannabis (aged 12-18 years, %)	8.1
Drugs, total use of hard drugs (aged 12-18 years, %)	3.8
Drugs, use of xtc (aged 12-18 years, %)	2.4
Drugs: use of cocaine (aged 12-18 years, %)	1.7
Bodyweight: overweight (aged 2-24 years; %)	13.1	15.1	14.4	15.1
Bodyweight: not overweight (aged 2-24 years; %)	86.9	84.9	85.6	84.9
Bodyweight: severely overweight (obese) (aged 2-24 years; %)	2.6	3.6	2.6	3.4
Physical exercise: complies with combined norm (30 min.) (aged 12-17 years; %)	47.1
Physical exercise: complies with combined norm (60 min.) (aged 12-17 years; %)	38.1
Satisfaction with parenting (%)	94
Unable to cope with parenting (%)	11
Concerns about parenting (%)	36
Help with parenting (%)	61
Youth welfare, children reported (aged 0-17 years)
Youth welfare, decisions to provide help (aged 0-17 years)
Child abuse, total numer of first contacts (aged 0-17 years)	49,901	52,354	59,739	60,223
Child abuse, advice as a result of firts contacts (aged 0-17 years)	25,554	27,268	32,155	31,775
Child abuse, consultations as a result of first contacts (aged 0-17 years)	7,421	8,875	10,410	10,300
Child abuse, investigations as a result of firts contacts (aged 0-17 years)	16,926	16,211	17,174	18,148
Psychosocial well-being (aged 12-16 years; mark)			7.9
Member of a club (aged 6-17 years; %)	74
Voluntary social work placement (aged 12-15 years; %)	12
Campaigning and demonstrating (aged 6-15 years; %)	10
Volunteer work (aged 18-24 years, x 1,000)	770	788
Religious attendance (aged 18-24 years, %)	11	10	8
Experienced sexual intercourse (aged 15-24 years, %)			65
Sexual assault (aged 15-24 years, %)			33
Use of condoms (aged 15-24 years, %)			39
Contact with friends and acquaintances (12-24 years, %)	97	98	98
Use of contraceptive pill (aged 15-24 years, %)			70
Contact with relatives who do not live in the family home (12-24 years, %)	80	78	78

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