Labour Force Survey (LFS) has been introduced by the Statistical Office of Kosovo in 2001 with the purpose of collecting comparable information on employment and unemployment in the territory of Kosovo, and to make them available to local and international institutions.

Being the first effort of this type of research in Kosovo, the survey, in many respects, leaned on the example of the Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) which was conducted in cooperation with the World Bank during the previous year. At the same time, it attempted to implement relevant international recommendations on labour market statistics published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Eurostat.

Last updated 25.07.2012