In 2000-2007, there took place, in the macro- and microeconomic scale, developments of a positive impact on quality of consumption, and, thus, on growth of the living standard of the society. In their article, the authors presented the factors determining volume of consumption and its pattern as well as those describing the living standard of the Polish society. They included the volume of gross disposable income, amount of disposable income as well as loans and credits, dynamics and pattern of consumption in households as well as the level and pattern of their expenditure, and the level of equipment of households with durables.