Family Benefits

Study title: Family-focused Benefits

The aim of the survey is to provide information on state budget expenditures for cash benefits directed at families, particularly those raising children and receiving family benefits, carer's allowances, benefits resulting from the Act of 4 November 2016 on support for pregnant women and families 'For Life', and benefits from the maintenance fund, as well as those using the Large Family Card or receiving benefits from the 'Good Start' program. From 2022, this information has been expanded to include data on family care capital regarding the number and amounts of benefits paid and the individuals submitting applications for determining entitlement and payment of family care capital. The data collected will help characterize benefit recipients and determine the average level of benefits broken down by type at the lowest possible territorial aggregation level (county, municipality).

Family benefits

Family benefits include:

1. family allowance and supplements to the family allowance;
2. a one-time birth grant;
3. care benefits: care allowance, care benefit, and special care allowance;
4. parental benefit.

1. We collect data directly from official government sources, most often via an API provided by the relevant statistical office. For this purpose, we use proprietary algorithms that retrieve and aggregate all information into our database.
2. We standardize and clean the data for better analysis and readability. We remove unnecessary elements and adjust the structure to a unified format, which ensures consistency between different data sets. This enables visual interpretation of statistics as well as comparative analysis — both by humans and analytical systems (including artificial intelligence).
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4. We create metadata and translate the chart into other languages. Each chart is supplemented with sources, survey details, and other information provided by the data supplier. We also use our own AI models to generate a short summary of the chart. Finally, we translate the content and publish the charts on 47 international Content Writer websites to share valuable information with the world.
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Data provider: Statistical Office in Krakow.

The source of the information is available at: https://api-dbw.stat.gov.pl/apidocs/index.html.

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