RULES OF STATISTICAL DISSEMINATION

Public statistics guarantees: indiscriminatory, equal, simultaneous access to statistical data for all users.

The collected and gathered in the statistical surveys of official statistics individual and personal data shall be confidential and subject to particular protection. The individual and personal data shall be used exclusively for statistical calculations, compilations and analyses, and by statistical services in preparation of statistical surveys - providing or use of individual and personal data for other than specified above purposes is prohibited (statistical confidentiality).

• Aggregated data shall not be published or disseminated if it could be linked to or can identify natural persons or business entities. This means that data characterising economic activity of business entities cannot be disseminated, if the aggregated data consist of less than three entities or the share of one entity in the compilation is higher than the three-fourths of the total.

• Orders for unpublished statistical data and information from official registers may be conducted for a fee.
  The base for costs calculation of data dissemination is the current "Price list for services offered by public statistic services".

SCOPE AND FORM OF DISSEMINATED STATISTICAL INFORMATION

The scope and the form of disseminated statistical information is specified in Statistical survey programme of official statistics passed by the Council of Ministers each year.

Aggregations of statistical data not included in the programme of statistical surveys of official statistics may be conducted (under statistical confidentiality) at individual requests (observing statistical confidentiality), for a fee.

Forms of disseminated information:

• publications, information
• press news and information in mass medias
• information delivered to customer directly, by phone or mail
• individual order
• information published on the Internet

ORDERS FOR UNPUBLISHED DATA CAN BE:

• sent by email: ; ;
• sent by mail: 90-176 Łódź, ul. Suwalska 29
• left directly in the secretariat of the Office
• sent by fax: (+48) 42 684 48 46

Orders should include:

• subject scope (information concern of whom)
• topic scope (which information)
• time scope
• set of data group
• dissemination form (electronic form, printout)
• surname, name and address, and phone number of ordering person
• form of payment