Persons who are aged 18 or more and have not reached the retirement age, are not employed or performing any other kind of paid work, available for full- time work and are registered in the powiat labour office respective to the person's permanent or temporary place of residence, seeking employment or any other paid work.

Among the unemployed persons are included disabled persons—are able and ready to take employment at least half the full work-time required within a given occupation or service, are not attending any full-time school with the exception of schools for adults (or taking extra curriculum exam in such schools) or tertiary schools in the evening or weekend education system or seeking employment or any other paid work, with additional provisions concerning the sources of income, included in the mentioned law.

• Act of 20 April 2004 on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions
  Place of publication: (Dz. U. z 2024 r. poz. 475, z późn. zm.)

• Unemployed without occupational qualifications
• Inflow to unemployment in reporting period
• Outflow from unemployment in reporting period
• The long term unemployed
• Registered unemployment rate
• Unemployment benefit