Data visualisation and outreach to stakeholders Source: Flavia Camilleri © We are pleased to announce that we are organizing, conjointly with TÁRKI Social Research Institute, an expert workshop on data visualisation and outreach to stakeholders. Today, there is great demand for information that is interpretable to a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, policy-makers, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/upcoming-expert-workshop-in-luxembourg-16-18-march-2016/
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This discussion between Marshall Auerback of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Branko Milanovic of the Luxembourg Income Study Center offers a great insight into global income inequality in the 21st century. Watch the complete footage here:
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/marshall-auerback-and-branko-milanovic-discuss-income-inequality/
We are thrilled to announce that we have added a new country to the LIS Database. Two datasets from Georgia, GE10 (Wave VIII) and GE13 (Wave IX), are now available. The datasets are respectively from the 2010 and 2013 waves of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT).
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/data-from-georgia-now-available/
The LIS Database is constantly expanding. We are excited to inform our users that Mexico 2012 has just been added (Wave IX). MX12 is from the 2012 wave of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH), carried out by the National Statistical Institute (INEGI) / Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI). In addition, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/brand-new-mexican-data/
The LIS Database continues to grow: one new dataset from Israel, IL12 (Wave IX), has been added. The dataset is from the 2012 wave of the Household Expenditure Survey (HES), carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In addition, the previous three LIS waves based on the same survey (IL10, IL07, IL05), have […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/israel-2012-added/
Wave IX has another great addition: we are excited to announce that one new dataset from Poland, PL13, has been added to the LIS Database. As for the previous Polish datasets included in LIS, PL13 is based on the 2013 wave of the Household Budget Survey, carried out by the Central Statistical Office / Główny […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/poland-2013-now-also-available/
Because of our ongoing vocation to always improve the data, we made some minor adjustments to the labour market section of the current template (i.e., the set of LIS variables and definitions). What did we change? We revised the codes and associated value labels of variables SECTOR1/2, EMPWANT, and, to a lesser extent, CLFS; We […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/minor-template-revision/
LIS seeks applications for 2 positions (2-year contracts) #1. Microdata Expert supporting STATEC Your mission The position involves supporting the National Statistical Office of Luxembourg (STATEC) in producing the national EU-SILC data and using the EU-SILC data for research on diverse socio-economic outcomes. Opportunities for carrying out research projects using the LIS data are available […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-is-hiring-2/
Now that LIS has moved, we are considering new opportunities on-site for conference venues, accommodations and class rooms, to organize future workshops. We’ll update this section as soon as we have further information, so stay tuned!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-introductory-summer-workshop/
Carsten Schröder, deputy head of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and Professor at the Free University of Berlin, was elected at the last meeting of the LIS Board in Luxembourg to succeed Gert G. Wagner as board member. Tony Atkinson continues to serve as President of the Board. German data from SOEP […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/carsten-schroder-succeeds-gert-wagner-as-board-member/