We provide you with the methodological report of the survey "Social assistance beneficiaries", carried out by the Statistical Office in Kraków. The main source of data is the Central Collection of the National Social Assistance Monitoring System, administered by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. It is an administrative database registered by social workers in social welfare centres during a family interview, i.e. during the administrative procedure preceding the issuance of a decision on granting or refusing to grant social assistance benefits. The scope of data collected in this database is a valuable source of information about the demographic and social situation of people and households