2020 Autumn Data Splash

LIS is happy to announce the following data updates:

• Ireland – Annualisation of the country series from 2002-17 for the LIS Database (11 new datasets and 8 revised)
  Thanks to the provision of the complete annual series of Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland, LIS has annualised its Irish series from 2002 onwards.
  During this process, 13 new LIS datasets have been added to the LIS Database (IE02, IE03, IE05, IE06, IE08, IE09, IE11 to IE17), while the previously existing ones based on the same survey (IE04, IE07, and IE10) were fully re-harmonised on the basis of the newly provided data. LIS could not retain the same level of detail for all the LIS variables for those revised datasets, as the original variables were provided in a different format. In addition, the earlier datasets based on different sources (IE87, IE94, IE95, IE96, IE00) have been partly revised for consistency with the new ones.
• Panama – PA16 added to the LIS Database (1 new dataset and 3 revised)
  One new dataset from Panama, PA16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the August 2016 Labour Market Survey (Encuesta de Mercado Laboral – EML) version of the Continuous Household Survey (Encuesta Contínua de Hogares) carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo – INEC).
  In addition, the earlier datasets from the same survey (PA07, PA10, PA13) have been slightly refined for procedure of calculation of tax amounts, as well as for the placement of social benefits and pensions. Also other miscellaneous variables were updated in line with to the harmonisation practices carried out in PA16.
• Switzerland – Annualisation of the country series from 2006-17 for the LIS Database (9 new datasets and 6 revised)
  Thanks to the provision of the complete annual series of Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) data from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, LIS has annualised the Swiss data series from 2006 onwards.
  During this process the previous nine new datasets were added to the LIS Database (CH06, CH08, CH09, CH11, CH12, CH14 to CH17), while the previous existing ones based on the same survey (CH07, CH10, CH13) were fully re-harmonised on the basis of the newly provided data. Differences between the old and new versions are minimal and concern mostly the placement of social benefits in the insurance, universal and assistance categories. Also the previous datasets based on the Income and Expenditure Survey (CH00, CH02, CH04) have been updated in order to ensure a consistent placement of social security benefits.
• Estonia – Addition of a new country in LWS Database (2 new datasets)
  LIS is delighted to announce that Estonia has been added to the LWS Database. Now two new datasets are available, EE13 (Wave IX), and EE17 (Wave X). The datasets are from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS-Estonia), carried out by Statistics Estonia, and Bank of Estonia.
• Property taxes and housing costs – Revision of variables hxptax and hhouscost in LIS and LWS Databases (78 LIS and 4 LWS datasets revised)
  Variables hxptax (property taxes) and hhouscost (housing costs) were revised in all datasets where they were filled, as they wrongly contained some taxes which were not connected with the property and which are now thus only to be found only at the aggregated level in hxotax (other direct taxes). We apologise for any inconvenience.
  In the LIS Database the following 78 datasets were updated: CA04 CH92 CH00 CH02 CH04 DE81 DK87 DK92 DK95 DK00 DK04 DK10 DK13 DK16 ES85 FI87 FI91 FI95 FI00 FI04 FI07 FI10 FI13 FI16 FR78 FR84 FR89 FR94 FR00 FR05 FR10 GT06 GT14 MX08 MX10 MX12 MX14 MX16 MX18 NO86 NO07 NO10 NO13 PE04 PE07 PE10 PE13 PE16 PL99 PL04 PL07 PL10 PL13 PL16 PS17 PY00 PY04 PY07 PY10 PY13 PY16 RO95 RO97 SE00 SE05 SI99 TW81 TW86 TW91 TW95 TW97 TW00 TW05 TW07 TW10 TW13 TW16 UK94. For the following datasets, this means that there are no longer contents in hxptax (property taxes), but hxotax (other direct taxes) might contain an inseparable mix of property taxes and other direct taxes in variable hxotax: CA04 DK10 DK13 DK16 ES85 GT06 GT14 NO86 NO07 NO10 NO13 PY00 PY04 PY07 PY10 PY13 PY16 SI99 UK94CA04 DK10 DK13 DK16 ES85 GT06 GT14 NO86 NO07 NO10 NO13 PY00 PY04 PY07 PY10 PY13 PY16 SI99 UK94. We advise our users to consult the codebooks in METIS for more detail.
  As not all 78 datasets had valid contents in hhouscost (housing costs) before, the corrections for housing costs have a restricted scope: CH00 CH02 CH04 DH95 DK00 DK04 FR78 FR00 FR05 FR10 MX08 MX10 MX12 MX14 MX16 MX18 PE04 PE07 PE10 PE13 PE16 PL07 PL10 PL13 PL16 PY00 PY04 PY07 PY10 PY13 SE00 SE05 TW97 TW00 TW05 TW07 TW10 TW13 TW16.
  In the LWS Database the following 4 datasets were updated: NO10 NO13 SE02 SE05.

• United Kingdom – Information on individual level income was removed in LIS UK69.
  Information on individual level income was removed because of its incompleteness.

September 14, 2020 | Highlight