Category HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL WELFARE AND BENEFITS TO THE FAMILY
Group MEDICAL PERSONNEL
Subgroup Nurses and midwives by education level
Source of data Statistical Surveys Programme 2023
Domain 1.29 Health and health protection
Statistical survey 1.29.06 Medical staff of health care
Data sets https://form.stat.gov.pl/formaty/badanie.php?rok-pbssp=2023&bid=110
Periodicity of the survey every year
Authority responsible for the survey President of Statistics Poland ; Minister in charge of health; Minister in charge of internal affairs
Unit responsible for the survey Statistics Poland; Ministry of Health ; Ministry of the Interior and Administration
Contact person on methodology Małgorzata Żyra, Statistics Poland - Social Surveys and Labour Department, M.Zyra@stat.gov.pl
Last update 16/04/2024
  • Description dimensions
    • 1. Data coverage
      NameDescription
      personnel - employed persons in the main place of workEmployed persons in the main place of work - working full-time in part-time and part-time in relation to working time determined by the applicable regulations for a given type of work. These persons, irrespective of their working time, are counted once, according to the main place of employment. Data includes people working with the patient, without people working in the NFZ, state administration, universities; do not include people who work in the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of the Interior and Administration.
      personnel - employed personsEmployed persons - people working in a given institution, regardless of the type of contract on the basis of which the work is performed (eg employment contract, civil law contract, including the contract of mandate) and working time. One person can be shown more than once if they work in more than one place.
    • 2. Type of personnel
      NameDescription
      nursesNurse – a person who has required qualifications, confirmed by appropriate documents, to perform the profession of a nurse, which consists of providing health services, and in particular in the scope nursing, prevention, diagnosis, curative, rehabilitation and health promotion services. Act of July 5, 1996 on the nurse and midwife professions. Original text: Journal of Laws of 1996 No. 91 item 410; uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2001 No. 57 item 602 with subsequent amendments.
      midwivesMidwife – a person who has required qualifications, confirmed by appropriate documents, to perform the profession of a nurse, which consists of providing health services, and in particular in the scope of nursing, prevention, diagnosis, curative, rehabilitation and health promotion services, connected with care over a pregnant woman, a childbearing woman, a woman lying-in and an infant. Act of July 5, 1996 on the nurse and midwife professions. Original text: Journal of Laws of 1996 No. 91 item 410; uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2001 No. 57 item 602 with subsequent amendments.
    • 3. Degree
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  • Variable availability in years
    NameYears of accessibilityData accessibility levelDescription
    personnel - employed persons in the main place of work   -
    personnel - employed persons   -
  • Basic Concepts
    Midwife
    Nurse