{"id":3683,"date":"2012-09-17T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2012-09-18T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:08:05","slug":"hows-life-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/hows-life-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s life in Poland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Life is good &#8211; we all know it. But let&#8217;s take a look at some statistics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Money (<strong>pieni\u0105dze<\/strong>), while it cannot buy happiness (<strong>szcz\u0119\u015bcie<\/strong>), is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Poland, the average person earns 14 508 USD a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest \u2013 the top 20% of the population earn more than four times as much as the bottom 20%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In terms of employment <strong>(zatrudnienie, praca<\/strong>), 59% of people aged 15 to 64 in Poland have a paid job. Some 66% of men are in paid work, compared with 53% of women. People in Poland work 1939 hours a year. Approximately 7% of employees work very long hours, with 11% of men working very long hours compared with just 3% for women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/09\/images-10.jpeg\" aria-label=\"Images 10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3684\"  alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/09\/images-10.jpeg\"><\/a>Having a good education (<strong>dobre wykszta\u0142cenie<\/strong>) is an important requisite for finding a job. In Poland, 88% of adults aged 25-64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree. This is equally true of men and women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In terms of health (<strong>zdrowie<\/strong>), life expectancy at birth in Poland is 76 years. Life expectancy for women is 81 years, compared with 72 for men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Concerning the public sphere (<strong>sfera publiczna<\/strong>), there is a moderate sense of community and level of civic participation in Poland, where 90% of people believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need. Voter turnout, a measure of public trust in government and of citizens&#8217; participation in the political process, was 54% during recent elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In general, Poles are pretty satisfied with their lives!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is good &#8211; we all know it. But let&#8217;s take a look at some statistics. Money (pieni\u0105dze), while it cannot buy happiness (szcz\u0119\u015bcie), is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Poland, the average person earns 14 508 USD a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/hows-life-in-poland\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}