Brochure, presenting in a concise and transparent form a cross-sectional collection of information illustrating living standard and economy of Poland as compared to other European Union members.

Level of professional activity of the population, according to socio-demographic features. The employed according to professional features, paid employment status, work time. Unemployment characteristics (duration, methods of searching for work, professional past), and the situation of the disabled on the labour market. Reasons for professional inactivity.

An assessment of situation in agriculture in regard to changes in production and economic conditions and production performance (harvest volume, trends in farm animal numbers and production and market supply of animal products), including consumption of means of production.

Assessment of the situation of manufacturing, construction, trade and service enterprises is based upon the subjective opinions about actual and future business situation expressed by the directors of the surveyed companies.

It contains basic indices of the socio-economic situation of the country, presented in the monthly, quarterly and annual series, including, among others, the national accounts, information on demography, the labour market, wages and salaries, social benefits, prices, money supply, public finances and finances of non-financial enterprises, investment outlays, agriculture, industry, construction, transport, domestic and foreign trade, along with monthly or quarterly data characterising the socio-economic situation of voivodships and EU countries.