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Part of Poland's Local Data Bank (Bank Danych Lokalnych, BDL), maintained by the Polish statistical office GUS, this API provides access to subject P3527, covering membership in organizations within the social economy and non-profit sector. Data are organized as yearly territorial time series, available from the voivodship down to the gmina level, with administrative units identified by TERYT codes. The API allows programmatic querying of this subset of the broader BDL statistical system, supporting research and analysis on civic and non-profit activity across Polish territorial units.SOCIAL ECONOMY › NON-PROFIT SECTOR. Local Data Bank (BDL) subject P3527: yearly territorial series for Poland (voivodship to gmina level), units keyed by TERYT ids.

Values of one variable across territorial units Documentation Open source record

Data schema (8 fields)

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Field	Type	Description
variable_idVariable id	string	GUS variable code identifying the measured series for subject P3527.GUS variable id selecting the measured series of subject P3527 (the n1/n2 dimension combination): 458576=organizations of natural persons [thousand pcs]; 458575=organizations of legal persons [thousand pcs]; 458574=total memberships in million people [-]; 458573=share of memberships - natural persons [%]; 458572=share of memberships, women - natural persons [%]; 1752418=total memberships per 10 thousands population [thousand].
unit_levelUnit level	integer	Territorial aggregation level, from country (0) down to gmina (6).Territorial aggregation level: 0=Poland, 1=macroregion, 2=voivodship (województwo), 3=region, 4=subregion, 5=powiat, 6=gmina.
year	integer	Reference year of the yearly data value.Reference year of the value (yearly series, back to 1995 for the oldest subjects). Filters server-side via the API's year parameter.
unit_idUnit id	string	12-digit BDL territorial unit identifier.12-digit BDL territorial-unit id (macroregion+voivodship+region+subregion+powiat+gmina+type digits). An equality filter pins the unit server-side (unit-parent-id).
unit_nameUnit name	string	Name of the territorial unit.Name of the territorial unit.
teryt_tercTeryt terc	string	TERYT TERC administrative code of the territorial unit.TERYT TERC territorial code derived from the unit id (2 digits = voivodship, 4 = powiat, 7 = gmina incl. type digit; empty for NUTS-only units).
value	number	Numeric value of the measured indicator.Numeric value of the measured indicator.
attr_idAttr id	integer	GUS data quality/annotation flag code for the value.GUS value-attribute id (data quality/annotation flag).

Schema captured from bdl 5 days ago.

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Sample data (8 records)

variable_id	unit_level	year	unit_name	teryt_terc	value	attr_id
458576	—	2010	POLAND	—	69.7	1
458576	—	2012	POLAND	—	71.2	1
458576	—	2014	POLAND	—	74.2	1
458576	—	2016	POLAND	—	74.7	1
458576	—	2018	POLAND	—	70.2	1
458576	—	2020	POLAND	—	76.1	1
458576	—	2022	POLAND	—	80.1	1
458576	—	2024	POLAND	—	86.9	1

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Base URL: https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/subjects/P3527

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curl -s 'https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/data/by-variable/458576?page-size=10&format=json&lang=en'

Yearly values of variable 458576 (organizations of natural persons [thousand pcs]) per territorial unit. Filters: unit-level=0–6, year=YYYY, unit-parent-id={12-digit unit id}; page-size ≤ 100. Anonymous limits: 5 req/s, 100 req/15 min.

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