| The data comes from the representative Labour Force Survey (LFS), conducted on a quarterly basis using the continuous observation method (moving week of the survey), allowing to illustrate the labour market situation over the entire quarter. The survey covers persons aged 15-89 who are members of households in drawn dwellings. Outside the scope of the survey, there are members of households staying (the total duration of actual and planned stay is taken into account) 12 months or more abroad and in collective households (such as staff hotels, dormitories, boarding schools, nursing homes, etc.) and homeless persons.
In the context of economic activity – work is the main criterion in dividing the population, i.e. performing, holding or seeking work. According to the international standards, the tree main categories are distinguished: employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons. The employed, unemployed are the economically active population.
Among the employed are included all persons aged 15-89 years who during the reference week:
1) performed for at least 1 hour an income-generating or earning job, i.e., were employed by a public company/institution or private employer, worked on their own (or leased) agricultural farm or conducted their own economic activity outside agriculture, assisted (without pay) in running a family farm or family economic activity outside agriculture,
2) had work, but did not perform it:
- due to to sickness, vacation, parenthood-related leave (maternity leave, paternity or parental leave), working time arrangement (work system or compensation for overtime hours), training related to the performed work,
- due to the seasonal nature of work, if they still regularly performed off-season work or business-related tasks and responsibilities (excluding legal or administrative obligations),
- for other reasons, if the expected period of absence from work does not exceed 3 months.
According to international standards, among employees are also included persons performing outwork and apprentices with whom enterprises or natural persons signed a contract for occupational training or learning skills for a particular job (if they receive a payment).
Among the employed are not included: volunteers and unpaid interns, persons employed in private agriculture who produce agricultural exclusively or primarily for their own use.
Population of disabled persons was legally separated from the total population aged 16-89, based on the legal criterion. Persons with disabilities include persons who are 16 years of age and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 27 August 1997 on vocational and social rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons (Journal of Laws of 2016, item 2046, as amended). d.) have a disability degree certificate or an equivalent certificate:
- significant degree of disability - this includes persons with the 1st disability group, or a certificate of total inability to work and live independently, or a certificate of permanent or long-term incapacity to work on a farm with the right to a care allowance,
- moderate degree of disability - this includes people with disability group II or a certificate of total inability to work,
- slight degree of disability - this includes persons with disability group III, or a certificate of partial inability to work and the advisability of retraining, or a certificate of permanent or long-term incapacity to work on a farm without entitlement to care allowance. |
