Amsterdam is the largest city in the Netherlands, with a population amounting to over 918,100 inhabitants. In the last ten years, Amsterdam’s population increased rapidly, and the end is not yet in sight. By 2030, the number of inhabitants is forecast to reach over one million.

 Amsterdam and tourism  

Amsterdam is not just a popular place to settle down, it is also one of Europe’s leading city trip destinations. In 2020, tourists spent nearly 5.8 million nights in the city. Europe’s most popular capitals, London and Paris, registered roughly 20.77 and 14.13 million nights, respectively. In 2019, Amsterdam ranked 10th on the list of leading European city tourism destinations, just below Vienna and Prague.
   Tourism boom  

Tourism in Amsterdam is booming. In the last ten years, the number of tourists visiting the capital has doubled. In 2018, the city registered nearly 8.6 million hotel guests. The largest group of guests visiting Amsterdam were tourists from the U.K. (three million hotel nights), followed by domestic tourists and tourists from the US (2.9 and two million hotel nights, respectively).

This dataset is a dump made on 14 December 2020 of the metadata of the submissions to the Corona in the City platform, including URLs that link to the submission content, which has been processed by the listed authors. Corona in the City is a project by the Amsterdam Museum, the museum that documents the story of the Dutch capital as it evolved in the past millennium. The museum developed an online, bilingual (Dutch-English) platform that was launched on 30 April 2020 for the collection of contributions from “all inhabitants, visitors and lovers of Amsterdam” that document their experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic. The explicit aim was to present these contributions in an online exhibition that opened on 15 May 2020. In order to ensure a wide variety of contributions, the museum collaborated with 45 local partner institutions, some of which curated their contributions in dedicated virtual exhibition rooms. By December 2020 the exhibition counted just over 3.000 submissions and had drawn 100.000 visitors; it is presently still open for contributions and new exhibition rooms are added occasionally.In line with the Privacy Policy of our Archiving COVID-19 Communities project (https://covid19communities.humanities.uva.nl/privacy-policy), for which we analyzed this dataset, we anonymized the original datadump by removing names of submitters, phone numbers and IP addresses. Email addresses of submitters have been anonymized by mapping them to unique identifyers. Although both the title of the submissions and summary description columns in many cases also reference person names, we considered that, since all submitters have consented to being mentioned on the Corona in the City website and having their submissions analyzed by the University of Amsterdam for research purposes (see https://www.coronaindestad.nl/en/terms-and-conditions/), these data could remain as received.

City-dwellers are realizing the benefits of green spaces and are flocking to urban parks. City planners face the challenge of ensuring that urban green spaces are functional for all citizens. To make informed choices they need the right information and that is where the Mijn Park app can help.

Research shows that when considering the social functions of urban green spaces, quality is just as important as quantity. It is easy enough to map how much green spaces there are, but how do we measure their quality? How do city planners ensure that the city’s green areas are attractive, accessible and inclusive – for everyone? The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in collaboration with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis developed Mijn Park, a mobile application that will help city planners do just that. As part of the LandSense Citizen Observatory, the ‘Mijn Park’ (My Park) app asks respondents to go to several locations in a park and give subjective responses to those locations. They are then further questioned about how they use the whole park and how much they would like to see certain changes made in the park. This information provides information that can help to inform decisions about any renovations or improvements to the park.

A pilot campaign was conducted in the summer of 2018 in Rembrandt park in Amsterdam and insights from the citizen-driven observations were shared with the Department of Planning and Sustainability of Amsterdam.

This dataset includes responses and photographs collected by 129 unique volunteers providing 377 observations in select locations across Rembrandt Park. The following files are available:

• _Preview MijnPark-Amsterdam-LandSense.png
• Attributes-MijnPark-Amsterdam-LandSense.csv
• MijnPark-Amsterdam-LandSense.csv
• MijnPark-Amsterdam-LandSense.geoJSON
• README.txt

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. It is attributed to the LandSense Citizen Observatory, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 689812.

This dataset is a selection of 54 contributions to the ‘Dagboek Corona’ (Corona Diary) collection, assembled by the Dutch public historian and freelance journalist José Boon (https://dagboekcorona.nl/). Dagboek Corona is an ongoing project, comprising an online collection of 78 diary writings (in Dutch) from about 20 different authors, written in the period between 3 March and 9 May 2021. On the website, contributions have been categorized in four chronological periods, from the threat of corona (March 2020) until the end of the first wave in The Netherlands, around may 2020. A selection of 54 contributions, mostly textual with an occasional image, has been made accessible for this research in the form of a set of Word documents. 24 texts from professional authors are not included in this selection because they have been published elsewhere first and copyright does not allow further dissemination. The 54 contributions included in our dataset have been anonymized (replacing person names with aliases).

Two datasets of rainfall observations from Netatmo personal weather stations in the Amsterdam metropolitan area (25 months) and the Netherlands (1 month). Included are metadata files with the station locations and a readme.txt file with details on the dataset.

European visitors recorded the highest number of hotel nights among all inbound travelers in the selected Dutch cities in 2022. That year, Amsterdam was the leading city in the Netherlands based on inbound hotel nights. Overall, European hotel guests, excluding Dutch citizens, in Amsterdam spent around 8.8 million nights in 2022.

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Data derived from weekly public opinion polls in the Netherlands in 1975 concerning social and political issues. Samples were drawn from the Dutch population aged 18 years and older.All data from the surveys held between 1962 and 2000 are available in the DANS data collections.Background variables:Sex / age / religion / income / vote recall latest elections / party preference / level of education / union membership / professional status / < self > left-right rating / party alignment / province / degree of urbanization / weight factor.Topical variables:n7503: Exemption from military service on < acceptable > grounds of conscience / Objections against ministers and aldermen who belong to the Communist Party < CPN >.n7505: Respondents' and/or respondent's partner gross and net income / Taxes and premiums for social services / Respondent's opinion about Amsterdam / Preference for shopping at Thursday evening and/or Saturday afternoon.n7507: Respondents' and/or respondent's partner gross and net income / Familiarity with ministers and state secretaries of the Den Uyl administration / Preference for particular ministers and state secretaries of the Den Uyl administration.n7508: Situation of Dutch trade and industry / Expectations concerning unemployment and reduction of working hours, and information sources on which respondent's opinions are founded / Influence of church and religion on Dutch society.n7510: Means of transportation, at going to work, school, or going for shopping.n7511: Evictions in Amsterdam < Nieuwmarktbuurt >, in favour of the construction of a subway.n7514: Proposals concerning minimum and maximum wages / Income of prime-minister, members of parliament and family doctors.n7516: Alliance of KVP, ARP and CHU into CDA / Continuation of Commemoration of the Dead < 4 May > and Liberation Day < 5 May >.n7518: Adjustment of income policy to the employment situation / PvdA convention concerning peace and security / NATO membership and acquisition of military airplanes / Respondent's length and weight.n7519: Spring-cleaning / Assistance of respondent's partner in doing the housekeeping / Housekeeping money / "Year of the women" / Familiarity with "A"- and "B"- products / Familiarity with and support of charity institutions.n7522: Decentralization of government departments.n7523: Independence of Surinam / Financial support for Surinam after independence / Settlement of Surinam citizens in the Netherlands after independence / Having a < green > PTT letterbox on the road.n7525: Confidence in the Den Uyl administration / Left-right rating of the Den Uyl administration / Demanding of male - versus female work / Working outside the home and having < young > children.n7527: Happiness and satisfaction concerning life in general / Satisfaction about respondent's possibilities to go out / Use of bicycle, motorcycle, car, public transport / Having a season ticket for train, bus and tram.n7541: Financing radio and TV programs / TV commercials and TV license fees / Enactment against misleading advertising / Political propaganda / Membership on reduced subscription of broadcasting corporations < "Tientjeslid" >.n7542: Expectations concerning unemployment / Main causes of unemployment / Unemployment pays / Respondent's expectations concerning own employment.n7544: Adjustment of income policy to the employment situation / Influence of unions on income policy / Social services / Refusing non-suitable work / Expectations concerning unemployment / The government's attitude towards trade and industry / Profits of Dutch companies.n7545: TV watching and TV commercials / TV commercials and TV license fees / TV commercials at Sunday / Favourite newspapers, TV programs / Comparison of regimes in Spain and East-Germany.n7546: Employee earning an average income / Works council / Capital Growth Sharing Act < Vermogensaanwasdeling - VAD >.n7547: Interest in politics / Foundation of political convictions.n7548: Disclosure of preferred coalition by political parties, before or after elections / Coalition preference / Alliance of Christian Democratic parties CHU, ARP and KVP / Importance of public opinion research.n7549: Disclosure of preferred coalition by political parties, before or after elections / Coalition preference / Alliance of Christian Democratic parties / Importance of public opinion research.n7551: Migration / Hijacking by Moluccans and the role of the government.n7552: Familiarity with and confidence in political parties, politicians and union leaders / Irritation about specific radio and TV programs.

In 2023, Bumble was the most downloaded dating app in the Netherlands - with almost 315 thousand downloads in the examined year. Tinder ranked second, with almost 305 thousand downloads from Dutch users in the last examined year, while Badoo, a mobile app for meeting new friends and dating, ranked third with 202.8 thousand downloads during the examined period. Dating app Grindr generated approximately 68 thousand downloads from Dutch users in 2023.

Mobile internet and smartphone usage in the Netherlands The number of mobile internet users in the Netherlands has experienced slow but constant growth, with smartphone and on-the-go connections reaching almost 15.4 million Dutch citizens in 2022. Approximately 90 percent of Dutch users engaged with mobile phones, while around 88 percent reported engaging specifically with smartphones. By comparison, around 67 percent of respondents accessed the internet via personal laptop or desktop devices, and less than 45 percent used tablet devices. As powerful and portable connected devices, smartphones have a special place for users in the Netherlands. As smartphone usage becomes more widespread and encompassing, so do the unhealthy habits displayed by users in the Netherlands. As of March 2022, around 74 percent of respondents reported not liking leaving home without their smartphones, while 66 percent reported picking up their phones within the first 10 minutes of waking up.

Mobile apps in the Netherlands In 2022, users in the Netherlands spent over 764 million U.S. dollars on mobile app subscriptions, in-app purchases, and paid apps. While this represents an increase from the revenues generated in 2020, the figure has experienced a decrease from 2021 – year in which the effects of the global COVID pandemic brought app spending in the country to 770 million U.S. dollars. In comparison, mobile app downloads in 2022 experienced an increase of 1.6 percent year over year among Dutch users. Social apps were the most engaging for Dutch users by far, with over one hour of daily usage. Casual games followed at over 25 minutes of engagement per day, while social and hardcore mobile games were used for around 19 minutes.