As announced last June at the moment of the release of the newer datasets for Guatemala, LIS has carried out a revision of the previous dataset based on the same survey (the National Survey of Living Conditions, ENCOVI, carried out by National Institute for Statistics, INE), GT06 (Wave VII), where non-monetary incomes and consumption variables […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/guatemala-revision-of-two-datasets-in-the-lis-database/
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The Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) took place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 17-19 July 2017
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/stone-center-home-to-the-us-office-of-lis-welcomed-the-2017-ecineq-meeting/
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/we-mourn-the-loss-of-prof-dr-dieter-ferring/
the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop was held on 18-22 June 2017 at the Belval Campus in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/synopsis-of-the-lis-summer-workshop-2017/
Professor of Sociology at the University of Luxembourg, presented the 2017 LIS Summer Lecture:
On the way to extreme inequalities: how income and wealth research highlights the challenges for the 21st century?
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/louis-chauvel-2/
Two New datasets from Guatemala and five datasets from Greece, Slovenia and Slovakia have been added to respectively the LIS and the LWS Databases
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/summer-data-release/
Two new datasets from Guatemala, GT11 (WaveVIII) and GT14 (WaveIX) have been added to the LIS Database. The datasets are based 2011 and 2014 waves of the National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI) carried out by National Institute for Statistics / Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE). The consistency revision of the earlier LIS dataset based […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-datasets-from-guatemala-added-to-the-lis-database/
We are delighted to announce that we have acquired wealth microdata from Slovakia. As of today, two new datasets SK10 (WaveVIII) and SK14 (WaveIX) have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets are based respectively on the first and second waves of the Slovak Household and Finance Consumption Survey (HFCS) carried out by the […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/slovakia-new-country-in-lws/
With a view to create longer time-series in the LWS Database, one old data point has been added to the Canadian series: CA99 (WaveV). The dataset is based on the 1999 wave of the Survey of Financial Securities (SFS) carried out by Statistics Canada.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-back-in-lws/
One new dataset from Greece, GR14 (Wave IX) has been added to the LWS Database. The dataset is based on the second wave of the Greek Household and Finance Consumption Survey (HFCS) carried out by the National Bank of Greece and co-ordinated by the European Central Bank (ECB). In addition to releasing this Wave IX […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/greece-2014-added-to-the-lws-database/