EN
The main objective of the article is to present the possibility of use of the small area statistics in household budgets surveys to estimate average monthly available income per capita in counties. The survey contains experimental results obtained for Łódź voivodship on the basis of data collected in year 2004. The obtained results are promising. In the elaboration the attention was bent to the potential danger connected with estimation at such low level of administrative division and possible ways of estimations improvement for average income at counties level. (original abstract)