Labour force survey in the EU, EFTA and candidate countries : main characteristics of national surveys : 2024 edition

This report describes the main characteristics of the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) conducted in 2021 in the Member States of the European Union (EU), two EFTA countries (Norway and Switzerland) and two candidate countries (Serbia and Turkey). All these countries provide Eurostat with EU-LFS micro-data for publication. The purpose of this report is to inform about the technical features of the surveys carried out in these countries, in order to enable users to interpret the EU-LFS results accurately. In 2021, the Integrated European Social Statistics Framework Regulation (IESS FR) entered into force as Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 and its Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240 for the labour force domain.