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The purpose of this publication is to provide a numerical insight into the Dutch government archives covered by the Archives Act 1995 and managed by archives or secretaries of municipalities or water boards. The publication gives a description of the extent and nature of these archives, their use (e.g. number of visitors), accessibility, state of maintenance, staff composition and the financial exploitation of archival services. Archives are distinguished in dynamic archives and static archives. Dynamic archives are recent archives that are available are for regular consultation. These archives are usually “at the fingertips” of the users and outside the legal archive— repositories. As such, they remain outside of this statistic. Static archives keep archives that are covered by the Archives Act falls and after a period of 10 years of the (public) authorities where they originated were transferred to archives. This make the archives available at the end of a certain period for historical, genealogical or other research. The Archives Act regulates the management of government archives, including the period after which documents must be sent to a government archive transferred. The Archives Act 1962 and the Archive Decree 1968 were in 1995 replaced by the Archives Act 1995 and the Archive Decree 1995. In addition, is the statutory transfer period with effect from 1 January 1996 changed from 50 years to 20 years. The government archives are the archives of the Empire, provinces, municipalities, water boards and other public bodies. These archives are basically static archives: they contain archives that according to the archive law must be preserved. The Archives Act speaks of archive documents; in this statistic, the term archival documents is used. Data available from: 2000 Frequency: stopped.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
	0		https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/70000NED/table
	23		https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/70000NED/table

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