File Name Identifiers H & P HID

Label unique unit identifier

Codes

PID

person identifier

H & P DID H & P DNAME

unique country/year number country/year identifier

H & P CNAME H & P ISO2

country name 2-letter country abbreviation

H & P YEAR H & P WAVE

reference year data wave

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Historical Wave Wave I Wave II Wave III Wave IV Wave V Wave VI Wave VII

File information H HWGT

normalised household weight

HPOPWGT population household weight

HWGTA

additional person weight (for subsample)

PWGT

normalised person weight

PPOPWGT population person weight

PWGTA

additional person weight (for subsample)

SVYUNIT

survey unit

1 2 3 4

household economic family tax or administrative unit other

NPERS

number of persons in survey unit

HHMEM

household member (dummy)

0 not household member 1 household member

Definition Unique (within dataset) household number.

Unique (within household) person number.

Unique (within LIS database) dataset number. Unique (within LIS database) dataset identifier, composed of a 2-letter country abbreviation (coded according to the ISO3166) and a 2-digit income reference year.

Full name of country. Unique (within LIS database) country identifier, composed of a 2-letter country abbreviation (coded according to the ISO3166). 2-digit income reference year of the data. Indicator of the LIS wave to which the dataset belongs. The LIS waves include datasets with the following income reference years: Historical Wave: before 1979 Wave I : 1979-1982 Wave II: 1983-1987 Wave III: 1988-1992 Wave IV: 1993-1997 Wave V: 1998-2002 Wave VI: 2003-2005 Wave VII: 2006-2008

Household-level cross-sectional weight, normalised to 10,000 by country.

Population household cross-sectional weight: this weight inflates the result to reflect the total household population covered by the dataset.

Additional household level weight calculated for a selected sub-sample of households.

Individual-level cross-sectional weight, normalised to 10,000 by country.

Population individual cross-sectional weight: this weight inflates the result to reflect the total individual population covered by the dataset.

Additional individual level weight calculated ofor a selected sub-sample of individuals. Unit of analysis of the file.

Number of persons in the survey unit, which corresponds by default to the number of observations in the P-level file. Indicator as to whether the individual is considered a household member (i.e. individual sharing the budget in the household). Non-household members are all persons for whom the relationship to the head is domestic servants (and family) or guests/boarders/lodgers (i.e. RELATION=4220 and 4330).

Notes / comments For confidentiality reasons, this identifier differs from the original one. Necessary when merging household and person file. This identifier is unique only within each country/year dataset; when combining different countries or years it is necessary to use it in combination with the variable DID in order to uniquely identify households. For confidentiality reasons, this identifier differs from the original one. This identifier is unique only within each household (it is necessary to use it in combination with the variable HID in order to uniquely identify individuals).

Assigned by LIS in order of entry into LIS database. Please note that the income reference year may differ from the year following which the survey was named by the data provider, and/or the year in which the survey was conducted. In the rare instances, when two datasets refer to the same country-year combination, the country/year identifier is followed by a letter. This corresponds to the first two characters of the CNAME variable.

This corresponds to the last two characters of the CNAME variable. See comment to variable DNAME for a clarification on the income reference year.

This variable is always filled for all observations. Always use the household weight in your household level analysis in order to get results representative of the total household population. In case of multi-country analysis, the normalized weight should be chosen if each country is intended to have the same weight. This variable is always filled for all observations. Always use the weight in your analysis in order to get results representative of the total population. In case of multi-country analysis, the inflated weight should be chosen if each country is intended to count in the final results proportionately to its population size.

This variable contains an additional household level weight in case only part of the household sample has been selected for some variables. This weight should be used only in connection with the sub-sample for which it was created. This variable is always filled for all observations. In many datasets the individual and the household-level weight are the same. Always use the individual weight in your individual level analysis in order to get results representative of the total individual population. In case of multi-country analysis, the normalized weight should be chosen if each country is intended to have the same weight. This variable is always filled for all observations. In many datasets the individual and the household-level weight are the same. Always use the individual weight in your individual level analysis in order to get results representative of the total individual population. In case of multi-country analysis, the inflated weight should be chosen if each country is intended to count in the final results proportionately to its population size. This variable contains an additional individual level weight in case only part of the individual sample has been selected for some variables. This is almost always the household, but can differ in a few instances.

Please note that in most datasets this also corresponds to the number of household members. Incomes of non-household members if available - are not aggregated into the total household income, and similarly, non-household members are not included in the count of the equivalence scale in the LIS Key Figures. Please note that in most datasets there are no non-household members. Non-household members are also not considered for the construction of all household level household composition variables as well as the individual level living arrangements variables (more precisely PARTNER, PARENTS, CHILDREN, NCHILDREN and AGEYOCH).