Editing National identification number (section)

=== Netherlands ===
In the [[Netherlands]], all people receive a ''Burgerservicenummer (BSN)'' (Citizen Service Number) when they are born or when first taking up residence. It is printed on driving licenses, passports and international ID cards, under the header ''Personal Number''. Before 2007, the BSN was known as ''sofinummer'' (the [[acronym]] ''sofi'' stands for ''so''-ciaal (social) ''fi''-scaal (fiscal) ). The number is unique. However, initially it was issued by regionally operating branches of the tax department which were all assigned ranges; in densely populated areas the assigned ranges would overflow thus causing duplicate numbers. This mistake was corrected during the transition from SOFI to BSN by issuing a new number to people having a duplicate one. The number does not contain any information about the person to whom it is assigned (i.e. no information, such as gender or date of birth, can be derived from a BSN).