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%).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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%.

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.