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Average monthly wage and salary in voivodships excluding payments from profits for co-operatives and prizes from enterprise premium fund including budgetary sphere without Poczta Polska S.A and TP S.A. in the first quarter of 2015:

Dynamics and levels of prices in essential areas of the national economy. The results are presented as data series (price indices and levels) in tables, in Excel format, constituting databases for a particular thematic area (agriculture, industry, construction, services, retail market, export, import). Constant supply of data, in monthly, quarterly, cumulative and annual periods. The data comes from statistical surveys of the Central Statistical Office and other institutions participating in the integral system of official statistics.

In the 1st quarter of 2015 seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) (constant prices, reference year 2010) was higher by 1.0 % than in the previous quarter and 3.5 % higher than in the 1st quarter of the previous year.

Price index of investment outlays in the first quarter of 2015 was 99.8 comparing to the fourth quarter of 2014 (prices decreased by 0.2%).

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 fi nances. Moreover, information published on a quarterly basis concerns GDP estimates, demographic processes, fi nancial results of non-fi nancial enterprises, investment outlays, business services, communications, the Stock Exchange, as well as the situation in selected countries in the world. The tabular part includes selected indices of the socio-economic situation of the country and basic macroeconomic indicators for the EU member states, OECD countries and selected developing countries.

Quarterly information on the labour market presents provisional data on the employed, unemployed, and economically inactive gathered from the sample Labour Force Survey in the 1st quarter of 2015 as compared to the results of the surveys conducted in the 4th quarter of 2014 and 1st quarter of 2013 and 2014.

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.

Information on the quantity of manufactured production of selected industrial products by PKWiU/PRODPOL (nomenclature for testing industrial products for monthly reporting), including production of final products for sale as well as for further processing within an enterprise, manufactured from own and commissioned material.

Data refer to enterprises keeping double entry accounts with 50 and more employed persons. Data do not include agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing, financial intermediation and higher education.