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.

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.

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.

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 4th quarter of 2014 as compared to the results of the surveys conducted in the 3rd quarter of 2014 and 4th quarter of 2012 and 2013.