Municipality-level geographical colleague connectivity in the Netherlands (2019-2022)

This record contains datasets (.csv files) on counts of colleague pairs per municipality triplet (two home municipalities for two colleagues, and one shared workplace municipality) in the Netherlands for the years 2019 to 2022, and corresponding R scripts (.R files) for reproduction within the CBS Microdata environment. Three types of micro-level administrative data files are required to be loaded within CBS, which are: (1) job relationships (i.e., SPOLISBUS), (2) individuals’ home municipalities (i.e., GBAADRESOBJECT, VSLGTAB and GIN), and (3) information on local branches (i.e., GEMEENTESTPLTAB and ABR_REGIO).

For each year of concern, all employees with valid home registrations in the Netherlands are paired with their colleagues who are identified as working for the same company. Individuals working for companies with more than one local branch are assigned to the most probable branch and paired with people working in the same branch. A cap is imposed to limit the maximum number of colleague links an individual is allowed to have.