Self-Teaching Packages
LIS has designed self-teaching packages to help you to get a fairly good command of the most common programming
syntax issues a LIS user would face while working with our micro-data through the LISSY system.
Upon completing these packages, one should, first, know how to create basic statistical
programs and second, get enough knowledges about the LIS microdata to
start to work with LISSY
These packages consist of modules that cover the major topics researchers are interested in while working with LIS
micro-databases such as Income Inequality, Poverty or Gender.
Each of these modules contains several exercises, and their related guidelines and codes as well as some further
explanations on LIS specificities, that helps to design from basic to more advanced statistical programs.
These packages are available for each of the statistical packages (SAS, Stata and SPSS) that are used by LISSY to process job submissions.
Sample Files
In order to check for correct syntax and to test programs before submitting them to LISSY, LIS has prepared SAS, Stata and SPSS artificial samples that can be downloaded. By doing so, LIS users will save time and help us to avoid system congestion.
The artificial samples contain a sub-sample of the US00 dataset consisting of 1000 households and their respective household members as well as a sub-sample of the IT00 dataset that includes 240 households.
Note that a sub-sample includes all LIS variables but does not necessarily contains observations for each category within a variable. Don't draw any conclusions based on outcomes generated by using these samples.
| DATASET | SAS FORMAT | Stata FORMAT | SPSS FORMAT | UNITED STATES 2000 | SAS format Catalog US00 Household dataset US00 Individual dataset |
US00 Household dataset US00 Individual dataset |
US00 Household dataset US00 Individual dataset |
ITALY 2000 | SAS format Catalog IT00 Household dataset IT00 Individual dataset |
IT00 Household dataset IT00 Individual dataset |
IT00 Household dataset IT00 Individual dataset |
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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.