The Luxembourg Income Study provides access to its micro-databases through a Job Submission System called LISSY

LISSY, a fully automated remote execution system running 24 hours/day and 7 days/week, allows researchers to submit statistical batch programs (written in SAS, SPSS or Stata) from their own location. LISSY automatically processes the jobs and reports back aggregated results within a couple of minutes (on average).

The micro-databases cannot be downloaded and no direct access to the data is permitted. Only results from statistical requests are sent back to the users.

Registration is Required

While the LIS Key Figures are available to the general public, the Luxembourg Income Study grants access to the micro-databases to registered users only and for a limited period of one year, renewable annually.

Two Ways to Submit Jobs

LISSY provides a secure remote access to the micro-data through two submission paths:

Although these two paths generate identical results, the Luxembourg Income Study strongly recommends users to access LISSY through the Job Submission Interface (JSI), which is more user-friendly and provides additional features such as accessing the user's job history.

Job Submission instruction

Regardless of the way jobs are submitted, there are a few exceptions to the standard statistical programming syntax needed for LISSY to properly process user requests.

Note that the Statistical Packages currently available in the LISSY System are:

  • SAS 9.2
  • Stata 11.0
  • SPSS 11.5

User Support

Please address all queries about the use and content of the LIS databases to the LIS User Support, rather than to individual LIS staff members. This allows the LIS staff to maintain a coordinated record of all queries.

When you send a query to LIS User Support, please include your name, title and affiliation.