Martin Biewen, "Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 24, No. 7, 2009, pp. 1095-1116. The data used in this article are confidential, as only officially registered users may use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to become a user, one has to apply at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin. For a full documentation and the conditions of access, see http://www.diw.de/english/soep/29012.html. If one has access to the GSOEP original files, the data set used in the paper may be replicated by running the STATA do-files "statedata1.do" and "statedata2.do". These will produce a data set "statedata1.dta", which is a version of the data in a "wide" panel format (i.e. one row per person), and a data set "statedata2long.dta", which is the corresponding "long" version (i.e. one row per person-time observation). The variables used in the study along with some summary information are described in the file "variables.txt". All these files are zipped in the file "state-progs.zip", which also includes a .dta file (alqwide.dta) that contains regional unemployment rates. Note that foreign GSOEP users only have access to a 95% version of the full German version. Running the do-files on the foreign version will lead to a smaller number of observations and to small deviations from the summary statistics shown in the file "variables.txt". Martin Biewen biewen@uni-mainz.de