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LIS takes the original data and harmonizes it by mapping the data onto a common set of definitions. This makes the data more comparable across countries than other sources, but at the cost of covering fewer countries. [Read more](#dod:lis-harmonization).\n- Income is measured after taxes have been paid and government benefits — such as public pensions, unemployment benefits, and social assistance — have been received.\n- The income data has been [equivalized](#dod:equivalization) — that is, adjusted for household size. This makes living standards more comparable across households of different sizes, since people sharing a household can split costs like rent and heating. To make the adjustment, LIS uses the square root equivalence scale: it divides the total household income by the square root of the number of people in the household.\n- This data is expressed in constant international dollars to adjust for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Read more in our article, [What are international dollars?](https://ourworldindata.org/international-dollars)","origins":[{"id":15417,"titleSnapshot":"Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) - Incomes across the distribution","title":"Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)","descriptionSnapshot":"Income distribution estimates by LIS.","description":"The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) is the largest available income database of harmonized microdata collected from over 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.\n\nHarmonized into a common framework, LIS datasets contain household- and person-level data on labor income, capital income, pensions, public social benefits (excl. pensions) and private transfers, as well as taxes and contributions, demography, employment, and expenditures.","producer":"Luxembourg Income Study","citationFull":"Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, http://www.lisdatacenter.org (multiple countries; June 2026). Luxembourg: LIS.","attributionShort":"Luxembourg Income Study","urlMain":"https://www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/lis-database/","dateAccessed":"2026-06-12","datePublished":"2026-06-12","license":{"url":"https://www.lisdatacenter.org/about-lis/terms-of-use/","name":"LIS Privacy Policy"}}]}