Purchasing power parities (prc_ppp)

1.1. Contact organisation

[PL1] Statistics Poland

1.2. Contact organisation unit

National Accounts Department

1.3. Contact name

Confidential because of GDPR

1.4. Contact person function

Confidential because of GDPR

1.5. Contact mail address

al. Niepodległości 208, 00-925 Warsaw, Poland

1.6. Contact email address

Confidential because of GDPR

1.7. Contact phone number

Confidential because of GDPR

1.8. Contact fax number

Confidential because of GDPR

2.1. Metadata last certified

16 February 2026

2.2. Metadata last posted

17 February 2026

2.3. Metadata last update

2 February 2026

3.1. Data description

See concept 3.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.1.1. Organisation

The Statistics Poland (GUS) is a public administration office supporting the President of the Statistics Poland according to the Regulation of the Prime Minister of 24 May 2023 on granting a statue to the Statistics Poland.

The detailed scope of the activities and organisation of the National Statistical Institute is defined by the statue given by the President of GUS by means of an ordinance (Law on Official Statistics Article 25.4).

The President manages the Statistics Poland with assistance of the Civil Service Director and Directors of organisational units. Since 30 June 2023 those are:

• Office of the President;
• Programming, Coordination of Statistical Surveys and Registers Department;
• ICT Systems, Geostatistics and Census Department;
• Statistical Products Department;
• National Accounts Department;
• Macroeconomic Studies and Finance Statistics Department;
• Demographic Surveys Department;
• Social Surveys and Labour Market Department;
• Trade and Services Department;
• Enterprises Department;
• Agriculture and Environment Department;
• International Relations and Statistical Cooperation Department;
• Education and Communication Department;
• Administration and Budget Department;
• Organisation and Personnel Office.

The organisation of GUS described above was valid in 2025 however, a new statue of Statistic Poland has been in force since 1 January 2026. The organisation scheme will be updated in the PPP Inventory 2026.

The Section of International Comparisons of GDP (the PPP team), which is responsible for the PPP work in Poland, is a part of the National Accounts Department. The task of the National Accounts Department is to develop methodological principles and to conduct and coordinate studies and analysis in the field of the national accounts system, fiscal notification of debt and deficit of general government sector, investments and fixed assets in national economy, international comparisons of GDP and purchasing power parity, and to present their results. General organisation and structure of the Statistics Poland and the National Accounts Department can be found in Annex 1.

The Section of International Comparisons of GDP deals with the PPP surveys. The scope of responsibilities includes: general survey supervision, preparation of survey documents for price collectors, general coordination of price collections, verification of consumer and capital goods price data, transmission of input data and validation of the results.

The price collection for the purpose of Consumer Goods Surveys is done by regional office - Enquiry Survey Division (ESD) of Statistical Office in Warszawa (SOW).

Price surveys on capital goods (Equipment Goods and Construction surveys), as well as pharmaceutical part of Furniture and health survey are carried out by external experts and coordinated by the PPP team.

In case of Hospital survey Statistics Poland collaborates with The National Health Fund (NFZ) and The Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System (AOTMiT).

Since 2021 the data on compensation of government employees is provided by regional Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz.

Data for the PPP rent survey is provided by Statistical Office in Lublin.

The verification of data on education is conducted by Statistical Office in Gdansk (SOG).

Compelementary data such as data on GDP expenditure weights, VAT and tips is elaborated in cooperation with other national accountants, while data on CPI/HICP (including data for calculation of SAFs) is provided by Trade and Services Department of Statistics Poland.

PPP works are partly financed under PPP grant agreements. These works includes translation of the item lists, collection and analysis of data within the hotel questionnaire, elaboration of survey reports, calculation of SAFs, updating PPP Inventories, translation of selected chapters of the PPP manual, realisation of capital goods price surveys and pharmaceutical price survey by subcontractors.

3.2. Classification system

See concept 3.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.3. Coverage - sector

See concept 3.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

See concept 3.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.5. Statistical unit

See concept 3.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.6. Statistical population

See concept 3.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.7. Reference area

The whole country.

3.8. Coverage - Time

See concept 3.8 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.9. Base period

Not applicable, because PPPs (Purchasing power parities) are primarily spatial indicators.

See concept 4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

See concept 6.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

See concept 6.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

7.1. Confidentiality - policy

In accordance with Article 10 of the Law on public statistics dated on 29 June 1995 (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland No. 88, item 439 with further amendments) data collected in statistical surveys of public statistics, both individual and personal, are confidential and subject to special protection; data may be used only for studies, summaries and statistical analysis; sharing or the use of individual and personal data for purposes other than those specified is prohibited (statistical confidentiality). According to the law, Statistics Poland uses detailed PPP data (prices, expenditures by BHs and other) only for PPP purposes.

 

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Under the Polish law, Statistics Poland is the owner of data submitted by subcontractors for the purpose of PPP surveys. Price data of equipment goods is considered to be confidential, since it represents real transaction prices and retailers can be easily identified. In the case of construction surveys, more than a half of price data is taken from price books which are available to everyone for a fee and thus considered as non-confidential. The unit price of items which cannot be found in the price books are estimated by the expert on the basis of real construction projects, but their identification is impossible. Therefore, prices reported in construction surveys are recognised as non-confidential.

8.1. Release calendar

Not applicable

8.2. Release calendar access

Not applicable

8.3. Release policy - user access

Not applicable

See concept 9 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

10.1. Dissemination format - News release

In accordance with Article 14 of the Law on public statistics the results of statistical surveys of official statistics are widely available.

10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

The most comprehensive information on PPP results is published in annual publication of National Accounts Department “National Accounts by institutional sectors and subsectors”. The Annex 2 of the publication contains results of EU countries for years t-5, t-4, t-3. Published data includes:

• PPPs at the GDP level
• GDP in PPS
• share of countries’ GDP in total GDP of EU
• GDP per capita in PPS
• volume index of GDP per capita.

The information on GDP per capita in PPS for EU-27_2020, EA-20 and Poland can also be found in “Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland” and “Concise Statistical Yearbook of Poland”. Data on GDP per capita and AIC per capita for European Union countries is published in form of charts in a brochure “Poland in the European union”.

10.3. Dissemination format - online database

The general information on volume index of GDP per capita for Poland is available on website Macroeconomic Data Bank and in Annual Macroeconomic Indicators. Databases are updated with the latest results simultaneously with Eurostat’s releases of data.

Additionally, the Statistics Poland’s website provides link to data on GDP per capita in PPS (UE-27_2020=100) in Eurostat database.

10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

See concept 10.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

10.5. Dissemination format - other

Not applicable

10.6. Documentation on methodology

The latest version of the "EUROSTAT-OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities" is available online. 

10.7. Quality management - documentation

See concept 10.7 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

11.1. Quality assurance

All data provided undergo a detailed multilateral validation process, described in detail in the PPP Manual (see 10.6).

11.2. Quality management - assessment

At European level, the PPP Regulation requires Eurostat to assess the PPP processes of each EU Member State at least once every six years and to publish the results of these assessments on the Eurostat website. The outcome of these assessments are released on Eurostat's website.

12.1. Relevance - User Needs

See concept 12.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

See concept 12.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

12.3. Completeness

All indicators are calculated and published.

13.1. Accuracy - overall

See concept 13.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

13.2. Sampling error

See the concept 13.2 of the 6 different Inventories (Consumer goods Inventory : PPP_CGSES_A, Housing Services Inventory : PPP_RENTSES_A, Compensation of Government Employees Inventory : PPP_SALARES_A, Hospital Services Inventory : PPP_HOSPES_A, Equipment Goods Inventory : PPP_EQIPMES_A and Construction Inventory : PPP_CNSTES_A).

13.3. Non-sampling error

See the concept 13.3 of the 6 different Inventories (Consumer goods Inventory : PPP_CGSES_A, Housing Services Inventory : PPP_RENTSES_A, Compensation of Government Employees Inventory : PPP_SALARES_A, Hospital Services Inventory : PPP_HOSPES_A, Equipment Goods Inventory : PPP_EQIPMES_A and Construction Inventory : PPP_CNSTES_A).

14.1. Timeliness

See concept 14.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

14.2. Punctuality

See concept 14.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.1. Comparability - geographical

See concept 15.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.2. Comparability - over time

See concept 15.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

See concept 15.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable

Not applicable.

16.1. Persons involved in the PPP exercise

Not applicable.

17.1. Data revision - policy

See concept 17.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

17.2. Data revision - practice

Not applicable, cf. 17.1.

18.1. Source data

See concept 18.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

See concept 18.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms 

18.3. Data collection

See concept 18.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms 

18.4. Data validation

See concept 18.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.5. Data compilation

See concept 18.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.6. Adjustment

See concept 18.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

SOW	Statistical Office in Warszawa
ESD	Enquiry Survey Division
NA	National Accounts Department of Statistics Poland
PPP team	The staff of the Section of International Comparison of GDP in StatisticsPoland
ILMT	Item List Management Tool
VT	Validation Tool
DET	Data Entry Tool
AOTMiT	Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System
NFZ	Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (en. National Health Fund)
NBP	Narodowy Bank Polski (en. National Bank of Poland)

Structure of Statistics Poland and National Accounts Department

See concept 3.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

2 February 2026

See concept 3.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 3.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 3.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

The whole country.

See concept 5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 13.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 18.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 18.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 9 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 14.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 15.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 15.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.