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. NA values in the CSV files indicate censored values, this is related to CBS rules requiring a minimum of 10 observations to avoid potential risks of group disclosure. The total counts suppressed to NA each year (and by different choices of the cap) is reported as a supplement (in PDF file). In the supplement, there is an overview of the labour size each year, based on which the municipality-level colleague connectivity is constructed. The geographical connectivity presented here is further used to inform regional public health interventions during pandemics.

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