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Women and men on the labour market

Publication date:	2004-06-28

Data presented in this study were taken from the quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS), registers of the unemployed carried out in labour offices, and from the survey on structure of wages and salaries by occupations.
The labour force survey covers persons aged 15 years or more. Its results are published quarterly in the publication "Labour Force Survey in Poland". Data on registered unemployment are also published quarterly in the publication "Registered Unemployment in Poland". Data from the LFS conducted in the fourth quarters of the years 1994-2003 and in the fourth quarter of 2003 and data from registers of the unemployed as of the state at the end of the year in the years 1994-2003, were applied in this study. In case of the LFS data for the fourth quarter of 2003, there should be mentioned that their comparability with the results of the previous surveys is not fully possible. It is caused by the appliance for the base of generalization of the sample results the data coming from the population balance verified on the basis of the results of the National Census 2002. The data concerning Community Member States were taken from the publication "Labour Force Survey. Results 2003", Eurostat. (...)

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