Assessment of the situation in manufacturing, construction, trade and services (with in-depth presentation of results in accommodation and food service activities) is based upon the subjective opinions about actual and future business situation expressed by the directors of the surveyed companies.

Short-term analysis of phenomena and processes taking place, among others, in the area of the labour market, wages and salaries, prices, basic areas of the national economy (agriculture, industry, construction, domestic market), transport and foreign trade, as well as the situation in selected countries of the world.

The quantity of production of selected industrial products manufactured by entities, in which the number of persons employed exceedies 49. The information relates to the production of finished products for sale, as well as for further processing inside the enterprise, produced from own and entrusted raw materials.

Basic data and indicators describing the socio-economic situation of the country, presented in the form of data series – monthly, quarterly, annual – regarding, among others, national accounts, demographics, labour market, wages and salaries...

Since the first quarter of 2021, the base of the LFS methodology have been definitions re-garding employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons included in the Resolu-tion concerning statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization. The resolution was worked out at the Nineteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians in Geneva (ICLS) and recommended by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the use in all countries of the world (until the end of 2020, the LFS base had constituted provisions of the Thirteenth ICLS of 1982).

In July 2021 entities having 50 or more persons employed and participating in the monthly survey of production of industrial products, reported production of 1 893 550 face masks used in medicine and 3 113 488 other protective face masks.

Registered unemployed persons and unemployment rate by macroregion, region and subregions. As at the end of July 2021.