It presents changes in the number of persons receiving benefi ts, gross amounts of benefi ts and the average gross amount of benefi ts by types (retirement pays, pensions resulting from the inability to work and family pensions), the dynamics of the observed changes and the relation to average monthly wages and salaries within the non-agricultural social security system (the integration of data from the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), the Ministry of National Defence (MON), the Ministry of the Interior (MSW) and the Ministry of Justice (MS)), as well as the social insurance system for farmers (data from the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS)). It provides the comparison of the average retirement pay and disposable income of households of retirees with social and subsistence minimum. The general characteristics of households of retired persons and retirees is also included.

It describes dwellings completed by forms of construction (cooperative, company, municipal, individual, intended for sale or rental, and public building society), an average duration of construction of residential buildings, cubic volume of residential buildings completed, methods of erecting buildings, and buildings by the number of fl oors.

Network and activity of cultural institutions and other units conducting cultural activity; theatres, music and entertainment institutions, cinemas, museums and paramuseum institutions, public libraries and art galeries. Data on publishing and film production as well as radio and television subscribers, licences granted for radio and television activity as well as on historical monuments. Selected information on financing culture and expenditures on culture incurred by households.