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.

Price of one square meter of usable floor space of a residential building in the first quarter of 2015 was PLN 3926.

Price index of construction and assembly production in the first quarter of 2015 decreased by 0.2% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2014.

In April of 2015, sold production of industry was by 2.3% higher than in April of 2014, whereas an increase of 8.5% was reported in construction-assembly production. In the period January-April of 2015, sold production of industry was by 4.4% higher than in the corresponding period of 2014 which saw a 4.8% increase, whereas construction-assembly production was by 5.1% higher than in the corresponding period of 2014 which saw a 10.5% increase.

According to preliminary data, the prices of sold production of industry in April 2015 were lower of 0.3% than in the previous month. The drop of prices was recorded in mining and quarrying of 0.5%, of which in mining of coal and lignite - of 2.1%, but the growth of prices was recorded in mining of metal ores - by 1.4%.

It presents the hazards related to work environment, strenuous work conditions and mechanical factors connected with a particularly dangerous machinery, benefits due to work in hazardous and strenuous conditions, compensations for injuries and occupational diseases, the number of persons working in hazardous conditions, and evaluation of occupational risks in particular work positions.