LWS Database
The Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS) is the first cross-national wealth database in existence. Harmonized into a common framework (2019 Template User Guide), parallel to the one created for the LIS datasets, LWS datasets also contain household- and person-level data ( List of Variables, Printable version ) on assets and debt, market and government income, household characteristics, labour market outcomes and, in some datasets, expenditures and behavioural indicators.
For generic codebook of the LWS Database variables’ names, definitions, codes, comments, see here.
For extensive documentation on the LWS Database, enter METIS.
For users interested in knowing more about the changes between the previous and the 2019 Template:
– a detailed list of changes between the previous and the 2019 Template can be accessed here.
– the correspondence between old and new income and consumption LWS variables can be seen here.
– the correspondence between old and new wealth LWS variables can be seen here.
– the correspondence between old and new other LWS variables can be seen here.
For users interested in accessing the pre-revised datasets (following the previous Template):
– in order to access those pre-revised files, choose the project “LWSPRE” from LISSY.
– you can consult the old LWS variable list here.
List of LWS Datasets
Note: Year given is the wealth reference year, that is the year to which the wealth data pertain.
Newly added datasets (2023 Autumn Data Splash) are listed in blue
* Forthcoming datasets are listed in red
Countries | Wave IV | Wave V | Wave VI | Wave VII | Wave VIII | Wave IX | Wave X | Wave XI | Wave XII |
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Australia | AU04 | AU10 | AU14 | AU16 | AU18 | ||||
Austria | AT11 | AT14 | AT17 | ||||||
Canada | CA99 | CA05 | CA12 | CA16 | CA19 | ||||
Colombia | *CO10 *CO11 | *CO12 *CO13 *CO14 | *CO15 *CO16 *CO17 | *CO18 | |||||
Chile | CL07 | CL14 | CL17 | ||||||
Estonia | EE13 | EE17 | |||||||
Finland | FI09 | FI13 | FI16 | ||||||
Germany | DE02 | DE07 | DE12 | DE17 | |||||
Greece | GR09 | GR14 | GR18 | ||||||
Italy | IT95 | IT00 | IT04 | IT08 | IT10 | IT14 | IT16 | *IT20 | |
Japan | JP04 | JP09 | JP11 | JP14 | |||||
Luxembourg | LU10 | LU14 | LU18 | ||||||
Mexico | *MX19 | ||||||||
Norway | NO10 | NO13 | NO16 | NO19 NO20 | NO21 | ||||
Slovakia | SK10 | SK14 | SK17 | ||||||
Slovenia | SI14 | SI17 | |||||||
South Africa | ZA15 ZA17 | ||||||||
Spain | ES02 | ES05 | ES08 | ES11 | ES14 | ES17 | |||
Sweden | SE02 | SE05 | |||||||
United Kingdom | UK07 | UK09 UK11 | UK13 | UK15 UK17 UK19 | |||||
United States | US95 | US98 US01 | US04 | US07 | US10 | US13 | US16 | US19 | |
Uruguay | *UY12 *UY13 |
For convenience, throughout our documentation, LIS uses short country/territory names – i.e., those that are commonly used in cross-national academia – in conjunction with standard two-letter ISO abbreviations. This convention does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of LIS concerning the legal status of any country or territory. LIS recognizes that several supranational organizations designate country/territory names which may differ from the ones that LIS uses. Examples include:
United Nations
World Bank
International Labour Organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development