Data Access
Microdata that would otherwise be incomparable, or impossible to access, are made available to researchers through three pathways:
LISSY
LISSY is a remote-execution system, specifically designed for LIS, that allows researchers to remotely submit statistical programs on LIS/LWS data. Due to confidentiality and security restrictions on microdata, LISSY is available to registered researchers only and exclusively for non-commercial purposes
Data Access Research Tool (DART)
DART is a powerful web-based interactive tool that allows users to select and visualise income and wealth indicators, countries, and time periods, and to decompose them by a multitude of individual and household characteristics, all based on the LIS harmonised databases.
With the launch of DART, LIS breaks new ground with data provision, as a broader base of users, including scholars, journalists, teachers, NGO staff, other analysts, and the general public, will be able to easily obtain and visualize a rich array of income and wealth indicators disaggregated across several dimensions.
LIS Key Figures
These Key Figures cosnsist of a set of national indicators on Inequality and Poverty based on LIS data for specific population groups. They are available for unrestricted public access on the LIS website via download and/or through a search engine.
LIS in Our World In Data (OWID)
Our World in Data (OWID) builds an extensive dataset of inequality and poverty indicators, pulling together multiple sources to provide as comprehensive a view as possible.
To make it easier to navigate this wide range of data, they provide a set of Data Explorers that allow users to explore a very detailed range of indicators on Poverty, Inequality, and Incomes across the distribution. OWID provides three explorers draw from the LIS Databases:
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LIS’ rules for citation
Users of the LIS or LWS microdata, DART, and LIS Key Figures are required to cite the data source in their list of references. As suggested by the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition, 2007) pp 753-754 (17.358), LIS requests that authors use the following format.