The YSB savings project progress reports facilitate a quick dissemination of results obtained by researchers invo1ved in the project. Essentially two types of papers may appear in the series. The first type reports on data analysis, describes cleaning procedures, sampling frames, etc. These help to give researchers in the project a good background to start using the data for their own analyses. The second type of papers presents results of academic research into savings. Often, but not necessarily, these papers will use the data made available in the savings project for fundamental research. Frequently these papers also appear in the CentER DP series.

Apart from the papers appearing in the CentER discussion paper series, progress reports are not refereed. Readers of the progress reports are encouraged to communicate comments and criticisms to the authors of the reports.