The quarterly information on the labour market presents data on the employed, unemployed, and economically inactive gathered from the sample Labour Force Survey in the 2nd quarter of 2011 as compared to the results of the surveys conducted in the 2nd quarter of 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the 1st quarter of 2011.

The results of the sample surveys are generalized with the appliance of data from the population balances compiled on the base of the National Census 2002. Since the first quarter of 2010, the LFS sample has been doubled and currently it comprises 54,7 thousand dwellings. Data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy were also included in the publication. There are: unemployed persons registered in the labour offices, job advertisements (vacancies) offered to labour offices and terminated for company reasons. The quarterly Labour Force Survey is the main source of information on situation on the labour market. The survey covers all persons aged 15 and more, who are members of the sampled households (excluded from the survey is population living in the institutional households i.e. workers hostels, boarding houses, dormitories, barracks, social welfare homes etc.). The LFS methodology is based on definitions recommended by the International Labour Office and Eurostat.

The basic criterion for division of population from the point of view of economic activity, into the employed, the unemployed and the economically inactive is work, i.e. performing, having or seeking a job in the reference week.