PL
Regionalne procesy ludnościowe w Polsce wyraziły się w latach 1988-2002 zróżnicowaną, znacznie mniejszą niż w okresach poprzednich dynamiką zmian ogniskujących się w miastach. Zmiany w rozmieszczeniu i strukturze ludności wpłynęły jednak na wzrost demograficznych potrzeb mieszkaniowych w szeregu województwach - w miastach i na wsiach. Wyznacznikami demograficznych potrzeb mieszkaniowych przejawiających się w układzie regionalnym są w artykule: liczba ludności oraz znaczenie miast i migracji, liczba oraz proporcje ludności w wieku produkcyjnym i poprodukcyjnym a także liczba i wielkość gospodarstw domowych.
EN
The paper presents an analysis of changes related to the scale, dynamics and structural features of demographic processes determining statistical indices of housing demand in Poland in provinces, cities and rural areas. Among others, transformation processes in Poland are characterized by considerably decreased quantitative dynamics of population change in relation to the period before 1989. The change is related to significantly weakened traditional symptoms of urbanization processes, taking new directions increasing housing demand. The character of regional demographic changes in housing demand indices is distinguishable in the groups of provinces differing in the population number and urbanisation level. In spite of the decrease in immigration rate in cities, regions with the greatest urban centres are still areas of considerable demographic housing demand. That demand resulted also from the number of population at retirement or working age and proportions between the two groups. In the group of densely populated provinces, the number of households, including single - or two-person ones increased most, demonstrating significance of demographic housing demand there. Those changes were accompanied by a considerable decline in the number of households comprising over four members in those provinces. In the group of provinces characterised by a lower population number, a significant increase in housing demand, particularly in relative terms took place in eastern provinces and other, less urbanised provinces. Regional changes in demographic indices of housing demand result from many alarming population processes related to growing socio-economic competition adversely affecting procreative attitudes. The related decline in housing demand dynamics in Poland rests upon pathological bases and may be illusory on the long run. Regional demographic processes in cities and rural areas determining housing demand are controlled by rather spontaneous market mechanisms, strength of the population potential in the largest urban concentrations and changes of more traditional nature in less urbanized regions.