The Statistical Office in Kraków has prepared the 18^th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of Małopolskie Voivodship. The publication contains a comprehensive set of information characterising the living standards of society and the state of the voivodship’s economy.

The thematic layout has remained unchanged in relation to the last year’s edition. The current edition of the Yearbook has been enriched with the following information:

– in the chapter “Labour market” the latest results of cyclic survey carried out every 4 years regarding labour costs were presented,

– in the chapter ” Wages and salaries. Social security benefits” results of survey regarding structure of wages and salaries by occupational groups for October 2016 were presented,

– in the chapter “Health care and social welfare” information on family support was extended, including new forms of support,

– in the chapter “Science and technology. Information society”, due to methodological changes, a new method of measuring the so-called R&D personnel and grouping of research-active entities into institutional sectors was presented .

We recommend to our readers also publications containing data in regional profile: “Małopolskie Voivodship 2017 – Subregions, Powiats, Gminas” and the “Statistical Yearbook of Kraków 2017”.