Poziom i wykorzystanie kapitału ludzkiego w województwie mazowieckim

The aim of this article is to analyse level of human capital and its use in Mazowieckie province in 2006 or 2007 (depending on data availability) and to compare the level of human capital and its use between Mazowieckie and other provinces. To this end, the so called Human Resources Index has been calculated, based on education, employment, enterprise and professional activity indexes. The level of human resources in Mazowieckie province has been measured mainly using the level of education of the population. The levels of lifelong learning of people aged 25–64 and presence of computers and Internet access in households are also presented. The Mazowieckie province is characterised by the highest level of the human resources in Poland, which results mainly from the province localisation, roles played by Warsaw, and the fact that numerous universities and research institutes are situated in the Capital