Pluriactivity in agricultural families in Poland. Status quo and trends of changes in 2005-2010

The article presents the results of an analysis of the status quo and changes in employment in individual farms conducted on the basis of the National Agricultural Census 2010 and representative research: Farm Structure Survey 2005 and 2007. The analysis concerned employed persons working simultaneously on farms and outside of them, thus pluriactive persons. It turned out that the number of pluriactive persons in the examined period increased. Moreover, the number of individual farms pursuing non-agricultural activities increased, as well as the significance of income from non-agricultural activity in the total income of households of farmers