2023 Summer Data Splash

LIS is happy to announce the following data updates:

• Austria – Addition of one new dataset (AT20) for the LIS Database (1 new)
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  One new dataset from Austria has been added to the LIS Database. The new dataset AT20 is based on the Austrian Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) carried out by Statistics Austria.
• Canada – Addition of one new dataset (CA19) for the LIS Database (1 new)
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  LIS has added one more data point to the Canadian data series in the LIS Database. The new dataset CA19 is based on the Canadian Income Survey (CIS) provided by Statistics Canada.
• Italy – Addition of one new dataset (IT20) for the LIS Database (1 new and 8 revised)
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  One new dataset from Italy, IT20 has been added to the LIS Database.
  The dataset is created from the 2020 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) carried out by the Bank of Italy. As in IT14 and IT16, detailed variables for taxes and social contributions (as simulated by the Bank of Italy) allowed the addition of taxes and contributions to all labour income and pension variables, so that also IT20 can be considered a gross dataset.
  A few consistency revisions have been carried out for the datasets IT95 to IT16. Notably, an error in the construction of variable migrat_c (place of birth) has been corrected. Double counts of mortgage interest payments have been removed from variable hxmort (mortgage instalments) for the years IT95 to IT16. The interest payments (hxintm) are still separately available for IT14 and IT16, whereas the information is no longer provided in earlier datasets, as it was not possible to restrict the interest payments to mortgage.
• Sweden – Annualisation from 2002 to 2020 for the LIS Database (18 new and 1 revised)
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  A first series of annual data has been released for Sweden. The series SE02 to SE12 is based on the Household Income Survey (HINK/HEK) and the data points from SE13 to SE20 use information from both the Swedish Living Conditions Survey (ULF/SILC) and the Income and Tax Registers (IoT). All data have been provided by Statistics Sweden.
  The previously available dataset SE05 has been (re)harmonised with the latest information provided by Statistics Sweden.
• United States – Annualisation from 1963 to 1978 and one more recent dataset (US21) for the LIS Database (16 new and 43 revised)
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  One more recent dataset, US21 (Wave XII), has been added to the annual series of CPS-ASEC data in the LIS Database. The CPS-ASEC data is provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) / U.S. Census Bureau.
  The data series has been also expanded backwards. The years US63 to US78 have been annualised using the respective datasets from Current Population Survey (CPS) – March Supplement, equally provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) / U.S. Census Bureau.
  While harmonising the early part of the series, some changes were applied to some datasets of the series:
  – the coding of educ_c (and its recoding into educlev and educ) for the years US79 to US90 was improved;
  – the coding of working hours (hours1 and hourstot) was revised all throughout the series, mostly due to the treatment of zero versus missing hours;
  – errors in the income variables were corrected for the years US79 to US86, notably for rental income (hi22), private pensions (p/hi33) and public insurance transfers (p/hpub_i and hpublic);
  – the coding of variable ethnic_c (ethnicity/race) for the years US79 to US86 was made consistent to the older series.

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