It provides a short-term analysis of phenomena and processes in the national economy, including monthly, quarterly and annual information, among others, on the labour market, prices, wages and salaries, basic areas of the national economy (agriculture, industry, construction, the domestic market, transport), foreign trade, money supply and public finances.

A presentation of data on the number of beneficiaries, gross benefit amounts, average gross benefit by type (retirement pension, disability pension, family pension), dynamics of the observed changes and the relation to monthly wages - in the non-agricultural social insurance system (integrated data from ZUS, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Interior and Administration and Ministry of Justice) and social insurance scheme for private farmers (KRUS data). Comparison of av- erage pension and available income of retirees’ households with the social minimum and subsistence minimum. Characteristics of retirees’ and pensioners’ households.

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.

Basic information on the number and structure of the population of Poland in 2017, and retrospective data prepared on the basis of population summaries.