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Self-Teaching Materials

Our self-teaching materials, available for the four statistical packages supported in LISSY, are designed to help you get acquainted with programming syntax that you might want to apply to our microdata. So far, the self-teaching packages are only available for the LIS Database. In addition, you will be able to find the syntax of each exercise and a combined syntax for all the exercises in each of the two parts.

Note: These Self-Teaching Materials are designed to support initial use of the LIS Database. If applied to the LWS Database, they should be used with caution, as there are important differences between the two databases.

Sample Files

You may download sample files onto your personal computer in order to check your syntax and debug your programs before submitting them via LISSY. Sample files are for instructional purposes only; do not draw substantive conclusions based on these files. These artificial samples contain sub-samples of two LIS and LWS datasets and consist of a random selection households and their respective household members.

LCS Sample files

As part of the Beta release of the Luxembourg Consumption Study (LCS) Database, LIS has produced a set of sample files available in Stata format.

Dataset type:
ch = Household Dataset  
cp = Individual Dataset

Programming Best Practices

In addition to these materials, always keep in mind our Coding Best Practices while writing job requests.