Explore New Interactive Data Tools on LIS Website: LIS in Our World in Data (OWID)
LIS is pleased to announce a collaboration with Our World in Data (OWID), integrating comprehensive inequality and poverty indicators into the LIS website. This partnership enhances access to detailed data on poverty, inequality, and income distribution, facilitating in-depth analysis and cross-national comparisons.
Over the last years, OWID has developed three interactive Data Explorers—Poverty, Inequality, and Incomes Across the Distribution—which are now accessible through the LIS platform. These tools utilize harmonized datasets from the LIS Databases, providing users with a seamless experience to explore after-tax (‘disposable household income’) and before-tax (‘market income’) measures across various countries and time periods. The data is standardized in constant 2017 international dollars, ensuring accurate comparisons of living standards globally.
This integration underscores LIS’s commitment to advancing research on socio-economic outcomes by offering robust, user-friendly resources that support policymakers, researchers, and the public in understanding and addressing economic disparities. More information about the tool and its features can be found here.
LIS would like to extend its acknowledgment to the entire OWID team, particularly Joe Hasell and Pablo Arriagada, for their invaluable efforts in incorporating indicators derived from LIS microdata into the OWID platform.