Peter Skogman Thoursie, "Reporting Sick: Are Sporting Events Contagious?",
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2004, pp. 809-823.

The data sets used in the article are from the Register of Cases Due to
Illness (Census data) and LINDA (Longitudinal Individual Data Base). LINDA
constitutes a 3.35 percent random sample of the Swedish population (about
300,000 individuals).

These are confidential data sources administered by

     Swedish National Social Insurance Board
     103 51 Stockholm
     Sweden

Permission to use (or order) these data sources should be directed to Ola
Rylander at the Swedish National Social Insurance Board.

The variables used in the study are described in the file variable_des.txt.
The sample selection rules are described in the files data_87.txt and
data_88.txt which are programs (Stata codes) used to generate the data used
in the paper.

These three files are zipped in the file pst-progs.zip. 

Please address any questions to:

Peter Skogman Thoursie
Dept. of Economics
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden