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Statistical information can be obtained by:

1. contacting directly or by phone the Statistical Information Centre
2. submission of a written order

Statistical Office in Katowice
40-158 Katowice ul. Owocowa 3
e-mail: SekretariatUsKce@stat.gov.pl,
Fax:  +48 32 779 13 00
 
The order should contain the following:

• subject scope,
• topic scope (what kind of information),
• thematic scope of the required data or a specific indicator,
• territorial scope,
• time series data,
• grouping of data,
• form of dissemination
• full name and address and phone number of person ordering.

Scope and form of making information available

The scope and the form of the statistical information provided are determined by the Program of Statistical Surveys of Official Statistics approved annually by the Council of Ministers.
The information is made available in the form of:

• publications (studies, publications),
• press releases and information placed in mass media,
• information provided directly, by phone or by correspondence,
• orders realized on individual request,
• • information placed on the Internet.

All other aggregations of statistical data, apart from those listed in the Program, can be executed (while maintaining statistical confidentiality) on request of the recipient for payment.

Additional information:

According to the Law on Official Statistics of 29 June 1995. (Journal of Laws  of 2012, item  591, as amended) the Central Statistical Office provides:

• equal
• simultaneous
• equivalent access to statistical information

All information obtained from the research carried out under the Program of Statistical Surveys of Official Statistics are official public statistics data, regardless of who leads it.
Individual and personal data collected and stored in statistical surveys of official statistics are confidential and subject to special protection.
The term personal data and individual data should be understood as:

• personal information - data on natural persons that concern their living and their physical situation. They always concern a particular person (Article  5 Paragraph  1 of the Law on Official Statistics).
• individual data - data on economic entities, other legal persons and organizational units without legal personality and their activities. They relate to a specific subject (Article  5 Paragraph  1 of the Law on Official Statistics).

These data can be used only for studies, and statistical analysis and for creating by services of the official statistics the sampling frame for the survey carried out by these services. Sharing or use of individual data and personal data for other purposes is prohibited, they are protected by statistical confidentiality (Article 10 of the Law).
Aggregated data may not be published or shared if it is possible to identify, on their basis, the data relating to specific individuals or economic entities. This means that it is not allowed to share data describing results of the economic activity of economic entities, if the data aggregation consists of less than 3 entities or share of a single entity in the compilation is greater than three-quarters of total.

When the pollster calls

When the pollster of the Central Statistical Office calls in order to carry out the survey, you can:

• check if a given survey is being carried out at the time by visiting the website of the CSO "Program of Statistical Surveys of Official Statistics"
• verify the identity of the pollster by calling on the number of a competent statistical office

+48 32 779 12 91- Questionnaire Surveys Divisions: Dorota Gwóźdź

A statistical pollster is an employee of the statistical office on the territory of the given voivodship. Most of the surveys are carried out by regular pollsters, for whom it is the only occupation within the framework of duties. In cases connected with overload of duties connected with carrying out the survey, there is a necessity to supply the network of regular pollsters with the so-called changeable pollsters. These are employees of statistical offices, who perform their main duties in the office, and when needed are transferred to work in the field. More frequently surveys are carried out using telephone lines. In such cases the interview with the respondent is carried out by telepollster.
A pollster visiting a respondent has an ID card and an authorization to conduct questionnaire surveys.

Who is a statistical pollster

Each pollster working in the field has an official identity card with a photo and authorization to carry out the survey specifying the subject, area and duration of the survey.
 
See also:
Pollster's ID card pattern
Pattern of the authorization for the pollster to conduct a survey

Questionnaire Surveys

Within the research of official statistics the following surveys are conducted:

• households,
• retail prices of consumer and non-consumer goods and services and marketplace prices of major agricultural products,
• agricultural.

Surveys are conducted all over the country. The implementation of research in various voivodships is coordinated by voivodship statistical offices, and the flats/households selected for surveys are visited by representatives of the voivodship network of pollsters.
Questionnaire surveys are sample surveys carried out in selected for testing households or farms representing the whole group of households in Poland.
A collection of selected households is called the sample for testing.
Survey of prices is carried out in 209 areas of the country, where the price and the level of their changes for more than 1,700 representatives in selected retail shops, catering facilities and service units located in the area of research are recorded.
Due to the frequency of the research the following are distinguished:

• permanent research - is carried out in a continuous manner, for example, household budgets survey, survey on the headage of cattle, sheep, and poultry and livestock production, land use, retail prices of consumer goods and services survey
• cyclic research - repeated periodically at specified intervals, for example, EU-SILC, SSI-10, EHIS, BSS, modular research
• one-time research - conducted where appropriate, to collect statistical data on a field, a phenomenon or a process.

See also:
Program of Statistical Surveys of Official Statistics

National Official Business Register of Entities of the National Economy REGON

The REGON Register is a continuously updated collection of information on entities of the national economy in a computer system in the form of the central database and field databases . It was established on the basis of Article  41 paragraph 1 Point  1 of the Law on Official Statistics of 29 June 1995 (Journal of Laws  of 2012, item  591, as amended)
 
Entries in the REGON register shall be done by the following:

• legal persons,
• organizational entities without legal personality,
• natural persons conducting economic activity (including those running individual farms),
• local units of above mentioned entities.

Each entity is given a unique identification number REGON.  In accordance with Article  42 paragraph 6 of the Law on Official Statistics an entity is obliged to submit a relevant application within 14 days from the occurrence of the circumstances justifying the entry, change or deletion from the REGON register.
Applications for entry, change or liquidation of entities of the national economy in the register REGON  are accepted in the Statistical Office in Katowice  in room 014, ground floor, phone +48 32 779 12 35, +48 32 779 12 45, +48 32 779 12 29.
Forms

eREGON

More information

Certificates of the REGON identification number to entities on their explicit request are issued at the headquarters of the Office in Katowice room 014, ground floor, phone +48 32 779 12 35, +48 32 779 12 45, +48 32 779 12 29. Information about the identification number given to the entity and its local units shall be made available on the website of the CSO.
More information

Sharing of data from the REGON register on order from third parties shall take place:
via e-mail: SekretariatUsKce@stat.gov.pl,
via mail: Statistical Office in Katowice, ul. Owocowa 3, 40-158 Katowice
via fax: +48 32 799 13 00
at the Application desk
The REGON register is public and widely available, data on entities of the national economy are provided free of charge or for payment depending on the range of data.
More information
In addition, matters related to the National Official Business Register of Entities of the National Economy REGON, including providing information to entities about how to register in the REGON register and record-keeping methodology, as well as IT support for the register shall be carried out in the Office in Katowice and its Branch Offices: in Bielsko-Biala, Bytom, Czestochowa, Rybnik, Sosnowiec.

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