Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Rob Alessie, and Maarten Lindeboom, "Retirement Behavior of Dutch Elderly Households. Diversity in Retirement Patterns Across Different Household Types", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2004. pp. 777-793. The data used in this paper come from two sources: the SEP Panel and the CERRA data. 1)The SEP Panel The Sociaal Economiche Panel, or SEP, is the property of Statistics Netherlands (CBS), to whom enquiries concerning access should be addressed. Since CBS does not permit open access, the data cannot be lodged here. Information concerning the CBS can be found at the following URL: http://www.cbs.nl/en/organisation/organisation.htm Data documentation is available at http://center.kub.nl/research/facilities/sep.html The analysis in the paper is based on data for 1990-96. 2) The CERRA Data The CERRA data for 1993 are used in this paper (see appendix of the paper). These are contained in the file wave1.csv, which is zipped in the file cerra-data.zip. This file is a comma-separated ADCII file in DOS format Extensive documentation in Dutch in two .doc files which are zipped in documentation.zip. In addition, an translation of the 1993 questionaire for employees is available in a number of PDF files that are zipped in english.zip. Both data sources are manipulated to obtain comparable samples of the Dutch population. STATA codes are available for these manipulations. For the relative codes please contact Mauro Mastrogiacomo mmt@cpb.nl