LIS Cross-National Data Center, formerly known as the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), is a non-profit organization registered in Luxembourg which produces a cross-national database of micro-economic income data for social science research.
The LIS database contains anonymised demographic, income, labour market, and expenditure information at two different levels of analysis (household and persons).
After being granted permission to use the data, users submit SPSS, SAS, R or Stata programs under their username and password to a remote server.
The LIS website contains registration for data access, dataset contents, self-teaching tutorials, and a working paper series which includes abstracts and full texts.
The Luxembourg Income Study was created in 1983 by Americans Timothy Smeeding, an economist, Lee Rainwater, a sociologist, and Luxembourgian Gaston Schaber, a psychologist.