U.S. Participation in the Development of a Transnational Database on Family Income

卢森堡收入研究（LIS）是一项国际性的研究， 社会科学联合会，目前有14个 工业化国家已经同意汇集微观数据 生活在不同经济体中的家庭的收入。的 如此提供的数据在统计上是可比较的，并储存在 位于卢森堡的一个中心设施， 研究人员无论是现场或远程通过计算机 电信网络。LIS数据库提供了丰富的 收入分配多方面分析的资源， 现金和非现金收入转移的相对水平制度 不同人口群体的经济福利， 以及其他许多现在或即将成为 全世界的社会关注。 数据设施的支助由联合体提供 在成本分摊的基础上。提供的资金 美国国家科学基金会 参与财团，这些资金有助于确保 LIS数据库对美国社会科学家的潜在价值 将实现所有成员国的充分合作， 为了保证数据检索的可行性， 维持高标准的数据质量，并逐步 放宽对某些类型数据的方法限制 分析.国家科学基金会的资金不仅代表 在美国合作的企业中，他们也向美国保证。 参与所有重要的发展决策， 帮助抵消数据库维护和更新的成本。

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is an international social science consortium currently participated in by 14 industrialized nations which have agreed to pool microdata on the incomes of families living within their divergent economies. The data so furnished are made statistically comparable and stored at a central facility in Luxembourg, where they may be accessed by researchers either on-site or remotely through a computerized telecommunications network. The LIS database provides a rich resource for multifaceted analyses of income distributions, of systems of cash and noncash income transfers, of relative levels of economic well-being across different demographic groupings, and of many other topics which are now, or soon will be, of worldwide societal concern. Support for the data facility is provided by consortium member nations on a shared-cost basis. Funds provided by the National Science Foundation constitute United States participation in the consortium, and these funds help assure that the potential value of the LIS database to U.S. social scientists will be realized. The full cooperation of all member nations is required in order to guarantee feasibility of data retrieval, maintenance of high standards of data quality, and gradual relaxation of methodological constraints on certain types of data analysis. National Science Foundation funds not only represent U.S. cooperation in the enterprise, they also assure U.S. involvement in all important developmental decisions as well as helping to offset the costs of database mantenance and update.