Data regarding employment concern persons performing work providing earnings or income. Data include persons employed in budgetary entities of national defense and public safety.

Employed persons include:

a) employees hired on the basis of employment contracts (labour contact, posting, appointment, election or service relation);

-owners, co-owners and leaseholders of privatefarms in agriculture (including contributing family workers);

-owners and co-owners (including contributing family workers; excluding partners in companies who do not work in them), of entities conducting economic activity other than related to private farms in agriculture;

c) outworkers;

d) agents;

e) members of agricultural production cooperatives (agricultural producers; cooperatives and other cooperatives engaged in agricultural production as well as agricultural farmers; cooperatives);

f) clergy fulfilling priestly obligations.

Data on emloyees hired on the basis of employment contracts concern:

a) employment as of 31 XII without converting part-time paid employees into full-time paid employees, each person being listed once according to the main workplace;

b) the average number of full-time paid employess and part-time paid employess with conversion into full-time paid employees.

Full-time paid employees are employed persons on a full-time basis, as defined by a given company or for a given position, as well as persons who, in accordance with regulations, work a shortened work-time period, e.g. due to hazardous conditions, or a longer work-time period, e.g. property caretaker.

Part-time paid employees are persons who, in accordance with labour contracts, regularly work on a part-time basis. Part-time paid employees in the main workplace are persons who declared that the given workplace is their main workplace.