In July 2021 entities having 50 or more persons employed and participating in the monthly survey of production of industrial products, reported production of 1 893 550 face masks used in medicine and 3 113 488 other protective face masks.

Since the first quarter of 2021, the base of the LFS methodology have been definitions re-garding employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons included in the Resolu-tion concerning statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization. The resolution was worked out at the Nineteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians in Geneva (ICLS) and recommended by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the use in all countries of the world (until the end of 2020, the LFS base had constituted provisions of the Thirteenth ICLS of 1982).

In 2019, the turnover of enterprises covered by the survey of structural business statistics reached 5,074.3 bn PLN (5.9% more than in 2018). Production value amounted to 3,339.5 bn PLN (5.4% more than in 2018).

In the 1st half of 2021 financial results of the surveyed non-financial enterprises were higher than those obtained a year earlier. Also, the economic and financial indicators have significantly improved. Investment outlays were higher by 7.9% than those recorded in the 1st half of 2020 (when there was a decrease by 6.1%).

Tourists (domestic and foreign) in tourist accommodation establishments possesing 10 or more bed places in 2021.

In July 2021 retail sales at constant prices were by 3.9% higher than the year before (against an increase of 3.0% in July 2020). Compared with June 2021 retail sales increased by 2.1%. In the period of January-July 2021 retail sales y/y were by 7.3% higher (against a decrease of 3.9% in 2020).

According to preliminary data, in July 2021, construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was by 3.3% higher than in the corresponding period of 2020 (a decrease of 11.0% the year before) and by 4.7% lower compared to June 2021 (a decrease by 3.6% the year before).