Data set of a survey of people 6 months before reaching their regular retirement age

This is an anonymized data set of a standardized survey of people about six months (+/- 3 months) before reaching their regular retirement age (n = 400). The survey is representative for the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Data was gained by telephone interviews, conducted by the market research institute DemoSCOPE in September 2019. The survey was part of the project “Identity Constructions for Retirement”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).  Personal details that could lead back to the identity of the participants (among others postal code, profession, responses to open-ended questions) were removed from the data set.