The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national Data Archive and a Research Institute located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income micro-data from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as well. Registered users may access the micro-data for social scientific research using a remote-access system. All visitors to the website may download the LIS Key Figures, which provide country-level poverty and inequality indicators.
The LIS micro-data have been accessed by over 1500 researchers in many countries to analyse cross-national variation in social and economic outcomes including poverty, inequality, employment status, wage patterns, gender inequality, family formation, and immigration. Much of the existing research using LIS data has focused on the impact of public policies on these diverse outcomes. Some researchers have combined data from LIS with data from other sources on, for example, political behaviours, public opinion and health outcomes.
The LWS micro-data can be used to study, for example, wealth portfolios, asset levels, home-ownership, debt holding and the interplay between household income and wealth. |
