This year’s edition of Structural changes of groups of the national economy entities in the REGON register in Wielkopolskie Voivodship contains information about the number and structure of national economy entities registered in the REGON database at the end of 2015. The last year’s data were compared with the results from the previous year while retrospective tables spanning the last decade (from 2005) enable the reader to track longer trends and dynamics of transformations.

Tables constitute an essential part of this publication. Data are presented by different domains, with entities grouped by ownership sector, legal status, kind of activity or size, determined on the basis of the estimated number of employees, and by type of capital in the case of commercial companies. As in the previous edition, the overview contains information about newly registered and deregistered entities, as well as those that suspended their activity. All the information stored in the REGON register is presented to reflect the territorial division, with individual NUTS 4 (powiat) and NUTS 5 (gmina) units ranked by selected variables. Data concerning Wielkopolskie Voivodship are compared with those for other voivodships and the country as a whole.

The tabular data are preceded by notes containing definitions of terms used, which explain the classification principles and provide a description of the main categories. The publication is complete with an analytical commentary section including information on migrating entities for Larger Urban Zones (LUZ) and supplemented by a graphical section of the information contained in the tables.