Description of data and code archive – Submission #3853 Demographic Research 23 July 2018 Title: Joint lifestyles and the risk of union dissolution: Differences between marriage and cohabitation Corresponding author: Kirsten van Houdt (k.l.vanhoudt@uva.nl) Note: We used the four first waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel study (SPSS format). We only used the main anchors. These datasets are publically available (after registration) at http://www.nkps.nl/NKPSDataCenter/NKPSDataCentreFrames.HTM. The files were loaded with the SPSS syntax mentioned below, and then translated to Stata. The data-handling and analyses can be found in the Stata do-file mentioned below. File name Content readme.docx Description archive Select&Translate.sps SPSS-syntax for selection of variables of interest and translation to .dta files Datahandling&Analyses.do Stata do-file containing all datahandling and analyses