Atlas. Socio-demographic development of Mazovia is a collection of maps developed on the basis of the cartographic annex to the Synthetic Report and Module Reports of the study entitled Socio-demographic determinants of development of Mazovia made within the framework of the system project Development Trends of Mazovia implemented from the European Social Fund OPKL (Priority VIII. Regional staff of the economy, Measure 8.1 Development of employees and enterprises in the region, Sub-measure 8.1.4 Anticipation of economic change).
The research was carried out in 2010-2011 by the author’s team at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The individual maps present a diverse range of problems related to the most important aspects of social and demographic development. In developing the maps, both publicly available data sources (the Central Statistical Office) and data specially compiled for the project were used, as well as information obtained from alternative sources.
The study contains 50 sheets with a total of 149 maps, 25 of which were drawn at a scale of 1:1,000,000, 108 – at a scale of 1:2,000,000 and 16 – at a scale of 1:2,500,000.