With a view to create longer time-series in the LWS Database, four old data points have been added to the Italian series: IT95 (Wave IV), IT00 (Wave V), IT04 (Wave VI) and IT08 (Wave VII). The datasets are based on the corresponding waves of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), carried out by […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/highlight/italy-older-data-points-added-to-the-lws-database/
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Spurred by the recent provision of a new consistent series of weights by the data provider, the Italian series from 1995 onwards (IT95, IT98, IT00, IT04, IT08, IT10 and IT14 for LIS, and IT10 and IT14 for LWS, all based on data from the Survey of Household Income and Wealth, SHIW carried out by the […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/italy-revision-of-the-italian-series-in-the-lis-and-lws-databases/
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/
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/