• AGRICULTURAL CENSUS
  • AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND HUNTING
  • CULTURE AND ART
  • EDUCATION
  • ENTITIES OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, OWNERSHIP AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
  • EUROPEAN FUNDS (HALF YEAR DATA)
  • FINANCES OF ENTERPRISES (QUARTERLY DATA)
  • FUEL, ENERGY AND MATERIALS MARKET
  • HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL WELFARE AND BENEFITS TO THE FAMILY
  • HIGHER EDUCATION
  • HOUSING ECONOMY AND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE
  • INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION
  • INVESTMENTS AND FIXED ASSETS
  • LABOUR MARKET
    • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION (AVERAGE ANNUAL DATA)
    • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION (QUARTERLY DATA)
      • Activity rate by sex and age
      • Economic activity of the population by place of residence
      • Economically active population by sex and age
      • Employed persons by sex, work time and PKD sections
      • Employment rate by age groups and sex
      • Employment rate of disabled persons aged 16-64 years
      • Percentage of population aged 15-64 by level of education
      • Persons economically inactive by sex
      • Population aged 15 years and more by sex and age
      • Unemployed persons by sex and age
      • Unemployment rate by sex
    • EMPLOYMENT AND PAID EMPLOYEES IN ENTERPRISES EMPLOYING UP TO 49 PEOPLE
    • EMPLOYMENT BY OTHER DIVISION THAN PKD
    • EMPLOYMENT, PAID EMPLOYEES AND AVERAGE PAID EMPLOYMENT BY PKD2007
    • REGISTERED UNEMPLOYMENT
    • WORK PLACES
    • WORKING CONDITIONS
    • ARCHIVAL DATA
  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  • NATIONAL CENSUS
  • NON-PROFIT SECTOR
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE AND JUSTICE
  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SPORT AND RECREATION
  • POPULATION
  • PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
  • PRICES
  • PUBLIC FINANCE
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET
  • REGIONAL ACCOUNTS
  • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • TERRITORIAL DIVISION
  • TOURISM
  • TRADE AND CATERING
  • TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
  • WAGES AND SALARIES AND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Category
LABOUR MARKET
Group
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE POPULATION (QUARTERLY DATA)
Subgroup
Unemployed persons by sex and age
Years
2005-2018
Data accessibility level
Voivodeships (NTS-2)
  • Category description
    Excluding data on the persons employed in the budgetary entities conducting activity within the scope of national defence and public safety - this makes the difference between data for Poland Total and data for Poland Total by territorial division; concerns employees in the main workplace; The data concerning employed persons [as of 30 September (by 1999) or 31 December (from 2000)] describe people that perform work providing earnings or income. The number of employed persons is presented by the activity classification (until 1999 - European, from 2000 - Polish). The data concerning the number of registered unemployed persons in accordance with the Law on the Employment and Unemployment, dated 16.10.1991, include persons having no employment and not attending any full-time school, capable of work and ready to accept employment. Hazards connected with work environment (report Z-10).
  • Group description
    Data on economic activity of population aged 15 years and more were prepared on the basis of the sample Labour Force Survey (LFS) carried out quarterly since May 1992 and improved in accordance with the Eurostat recommendations. The survey covers persons who are members of the household selected to the survey. The survey subject is the situation concerning economic activity of the population, i.e. the fact of performing work, being unemployed or economically inactive during the reference week. From the 1st quarter of 2003 to the 2nd quarter of 2012, the data on the Polish population (population aged 15 years and more) coming from the balances prepared on the basis of the National Census of Population and Housing 2002 were used for generalization of the results, that is why the LFS data are not completely comparable to the data for the previous years. Since the 3rd quarter of 2012, the generalization of the survey results onto the overall population has been done with the use of data coming from the balances compiled on the basis of the National Census of Population and Housing 2011. Moreover, there were introduced methodological changes: since the 3rd quarter of 2012, from the survey range have been excluded persons staying outside the household for 12 months or longer; until the 2nd quarter of 2012 - longer than 3 months. Thus, the LFS data since the 3rd quarter of 2012 onwards are not fully comparable with the results from the previous periods. The survey data for the period: between the 1st quarter of 2010 and the 2nd quarter of 2012 were recalculated according to the new methodology and the new basis of the results generalization. Data presented by age groups have been calculated on the basis of the exact date of birth, until the first quarter of 2006 - excluding persons aged 15 years - they were presented according to the year of birth. In some tables, particular components do not sum up to the figures given in the "Total" items due to the computer rounding up. Figures below 5 thousand are not presented because of high random error of sample. Quarterly data - concern population aged 15 years and more according to the actual place of residence.
  • Subgroup description
    In compliance with the EUROSTAT recommendation since the 1st quarter of 2001 the population of unemployed persons has been limited to persons aged 15-74 years. The unemployed are persons who simultaneously meet the following three conditions:
    - in the reference week were not employed,
    - were actively looking for work, i.e. for over 4 weeks (the reference week being the fourth one) had been involved in concrete actions aimed at finding a job,
    - were ready (able) to take up work within two weeks after the reference week.
    The persons who were not seeking work because they had already found a job and were only waiting to start work within the period no longer than 3 months and they were able to take this job are also included in the category of the unemployed.