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A study undertaken at the request of the DHSS/DE to find out why people retire early, at normal retirement age, or after, and to investigate: constraints on working after or just before normal retirement age; effects of various personal, environmental and policy factors on the timing of the decision to retire or the failure to take such a decision. The dataset includes a file of merged common variables created by David Piachaud, Dept. of Social Science and Administration, LSE
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
stratified random sample from postal sift
Face-to-face interview