Index Kosova, joint venture with BBSS Gallup International, was founded in 2000, as the first privately owned independent public opinion, media and market research Company in Kosova. Index Kosova is the first company to provide research services for local and international clients throughout Kosova.

The range of services offered currently by Index Kosova comprises quantitative ad-hoc social political, media and market research, as well as qualitative research. Since August '99 a monthly omnibus is conducted on a sample of 1,000 respondents aged 18+ years, Kosovan Albanians. The sampling procedure conforms to recognised multistage random methodology and is representative for the adult Albanian population of the region.

 

 

Structure and field force

Managing Director – Visar Berisha
Research Manager – Shemsi Krasniqi
Project Manager – Vlora Basha
DP and Financial Manager – Petrit Zeka
Field & Logistics Manager – Imer Muzhaku

• 7 regional supervisors
• more than 150 fully trained regular interviewers

All interviewers are trained in-house according to ESOMAR standards.
Quality controls: telephone and door-to-door back checking at least 15% of respondents by regional supervisors.
BBSS is a Full Member of Gallup International Association.

BBSS has established affiliate and joint venture companies based in Romania (CSOP), Albania (Index Albania), Macedonia (Brima), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Serbia and Montenegro (Medium Index), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Mareco Index Bosnia), Ukraine (SOCIS), and in Kosova (Index Kosova).

BBSS is an associate of Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), number one market and media research supplier in Europe, ranking fourth in the industry world-wide.