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), foreign trade, money supply and public finances. Moreover, information published on a quarterly basis concerns GDP estimates, demographic processes, financial results of non-financial 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.

On 26th August 2019, the PDF file of the publication “Socio-economic situation of the country in the first half of 2019” was modified.
In the chapter “Wages and salaries; social benefits” on page 23, the value given in the first paragraph, second row from below, concerning the average monthly real gross retirement and other pension from non-agricultural social security system was corrected (from 1,6% to 2,6%).