The Statistical Office in Poznań presents the latest edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Wielkopolskie Voivodship­ – one of the most important titles in the annual publication plan. This periodical summary of statistical information provides an insight into the scale of social changes and the level of economic development of the voivodship. This year’s edition is a quantitative summary of changes observed in various areas of the socio-economic sphere in 2013.

The Statistical Yearbook of the Wielkopolskie Voivodship­ 2014 begins with a section containing review tables. In order to capture trends and directions of changes that are under way, the latest statistics for selected variables are compared with corresponding values from previous years, i.e. 2000 and 2005. In such cases, data are shown in a series spanning a period of 2008–2013.

The major part of the Yearbook consists of tables grouped into 24 thematic sections. Depending on the availability of information for 2013 and 2012, the statistics are compared with their respective values for 2005 and 2010. The data presented in the thematic sections come mainly from the rich database of official statistics, but non-statistical sources have also been used.

One new feature of the current edition of the Yearbook, compared to the previous one, is a population projection and an overview of data related to regional accounts compiled for the first time according to the principles of the European System of National and Regional Accounts.