Including More Middle-Income Countries
For the last 28 years, LIS has gathered and harmonized income datasets from over 30 mostly high-income countries. LIS is now expanding its global reach, adding datasets from middle-income countries.
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the EU Eurosocial Fund, and in collaboration with the World Bank, LIS completed a pilot project involving the harmonizing of five income datasets from Latin America. These datasets -- from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Uruguay –were added to the LIS database in 2009.
LIS is continuing to source and harmonize datasets from additional middle-income countries, as well as a few, selected low-income countries. In 2011, LIS completed acquisition of datasets from the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and from South Africa. See the complete list of available datasets in the LIS Database.