LIS Database

The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) is the largest available income database of harmonised microdata collected from about 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.

Harmonized into a common framework (Harmonisation Guidelines), LIS datasets contain household- and person-level data (List of Variables) on labour income, capital income, social security and private transfers, taxes and contributions, demography, employment, and expenditures.

For extensive documentation on the LIS Database, enter METIS

List of LIS Datasets

Note: Year given is the income reference year, that is the year to which the income data pertain.

* Forthcoming datasets are listed in red

For convenience, throughout our documentation, LIS uses short country/territory names – i.e., those that are commonly used in cross-national academia – in conjunction with standard two-letter ISO abbreviations. This convention does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of LIS concerning the legal status of any country or territory. LIS recognizes that several supranational organizations designate country/territory names which may differ from the ones that LIS uses. Examples include:

United Nations

World Bank
International Labour Organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development