The relationship between official statistics and the media in Poland – including the scope and the timetable of the mutual collaboration on statistical information delivery and access – is regulated by the Law on Official Statistics and the Press Law, with a set of procedures that are rigorously observed in practice. The media are provided with full range of ‘publicly available’ information being produced within the system of official statistics that remains under the responsibility of the President of the Central Statistical Office. The cooperation with the media is based on a user-friendly and free of charge access to all public data files.
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