Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development

Value and structure of expenses made by foreigners in Poland and Poles abroad. Characteristics of border traffic, its intensity and structure. Purpose of stay abroad, distance from the border of the country of origin and the shopping place, frequency of border crossings.

Sex is one of the key characteristics considered in the labour market analysis. A lot of phenomena is discussed in division into men and women. Individual skills and decisions of employees and job-seekers are also related with sex. Women often work in different professions and industries than men, receive different salaries and work in different hours. These differences are due to such characteristics as level of education, involvement in private life and even expectations from life.

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.

Production output for selected industrial goods manufactured by units with 50 or more workers. Information on the production and finished products intended for sales and for further processing within the enterprise, produced from own and entrusted raw materials.

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.