Complementary Databases: country-level data
As a courtesy, LIS makes available some datasets and databases that provide country-level indicators that might be useful to our microdata users and other comparative researchers. These have been compiled by various LIS staff and other scholars, including past LIS Visiting Scholars.
Codebooks and other details about these compilations – including required citation guidelines – are included for each, and we urge you to review these if you make use of these resources. We also urge you to contact the producers of these data directly if you have questions.
Note: If you have a dataset or database containing country-level variables that might be of use to LIS researchers, please contact us. We would be happy to lodge your data on our website!
Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Data Set (SaMip) (2009), assembled by Kenneth Nelson, includes detailed information on the benefit position of low-income households in industrialized democracies. SaMip is an ongoing research project based at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University.
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Comparative Welfare States Data Set (1997, 2004, forthcoming), compiled by Evelyne Huber, Charles Ragin, John D. Stephens, David Brady, and Jason Beckfield, provides an array of country-level welfare state indicators over time, including spending, revenue, employment, demographic, and political variables.
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For a version of the 2004 dataset which includes data on Korea click here
Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Dataset (1960-2006), compiled by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, Thomas Mustillo, and Jennifer Pribble at the University of North Carolina (2008), provides country-level social policy indicators over time, including social welfare, economic, and demographic indicators.
Institutions that Build Economic Security and Asset Holdings Database (2008), compiled by Janet Gornick, Timothy Smeeding, Eva Sierminska, and Maurice Leach, includes variables on countries’ institutions related to income security and wealth. This database is designed to be useful to researchers using the LWS microdata.
Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Database (2011), prepared by Koen Caminada and Chen Wang, presents the disentanglement of income inequality and the redistributive effect of social transfers and taxes in 36 LIS countries for the period 1970-2006 (Waves I – Wave VI of LIS). This database refines, updates, and extends the Fiscal Redistribution Data Set (see below) prepared by David Jesuit and Vincent Mahler.
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Fiscal Redistribution Data Set (2005, 2008), prepared by David Jesuit and Vincent Mahler, provides country-level measures of fiscal retribution in several countries included in the LIS Database.
A Detailed Look at Parental Leave Policies in 21 OECD Countries (2008), compiled by Rebecca Ray of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in the United States, provides country-level data on the leave eligibility, duration, benefit levels, part-time options, and job protections. An associated report by Rebecca Ray, Janet Gornick and John Schmitt synthesizes findings based on the policy data.
Measures that Govern Rights to Alternate Work Arrangements in 21 OECD Countries (2007), assembled by Ariane Hegewisch and Janet Gornick, provides country-level information on working time regulations pertaining to alternative work arrangements. An associated report by Ariane Hegewisch and Janet Gornick synthesizes findings based on the policy data.
Family Policy Database (1997, 2003), compiled by Janet Gornick, Marcia Meyers and (for the 1997 version) Katherin Ross, includes country-level data on public policies that enable parental employment, including child care, family leave, and working time regulations.
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Family Policy 1997 Data
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Family Leave Policies Data
Working Time Regulations Data
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The Work-Family Policy Indicators (2012), assembled by Irene Boeckmann, Michelle Budig, and Joya Misra, include country-level data on birth-related and extended leave policies, early childhood education and care, and the regulation of working time. The dataset includes 12 country-level indicators, covering 22 countries, including countries in Europe and North America, as well as Australia. The indicators are intended to be used together with microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS). With a few exceptions, the policy measures are matched to the years corresponding to LIS’ Wave 5 microdata. The construction of this database was funded by the United States’ National Science Foundation.
[DOI:10.7275/R5WD3XHS]
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OECD Database on Household Income Distribution and Poverty, including a set of main poverty and inequality indicators, as well as disposable household income by various breakdowns
