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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Economic Statistics in Turkey 1 National Statistical Website: http://www.turkstat.gov.tr World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income Coordination 2 Population (millions, 2014): 75.8 2 GDP Per Capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 13,737 Advocacy ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) ○ Central Bank of Republic of Turkey (CBRT) ▪ National Strategic Plan is being implemented ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Semi-centralized statistical system ○ Responsibilities are clearly defined for agencies involved in the production of the Core Set ○ Plans are currently being implemented to improve coordination of production of economic statistics ▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff ▪ Contact points publicized for each statistical subject area ▪ User consultations are organized by producers of economic statistics ▪ Awareness of relevance, among users, of official statistics to economic policy making is considered sufficient and there are activities in place to improve upon it International Collaboration ▪ Interested in participating in RPES as both a provider and a recipient of technical assistance ▪ Partnered with IMF, IPA, and USST ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 1993 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations Frequency Timeliness National Accounts Quarterly 2.5 months Balance of Payments Quarterly 2 months Labour Force Survey Monthly 1.5 months Household Income/Expenditure Survey Annually 9 months Enterprise/Establishment Survey Annually 18 months Population Census Every 10 years 12 months Economic Census Every 10 years 24 months Agricultural Census Every 10 years 24 months × Standards/Classifications - SNA 1993 (2008 planned) - ISIC Rev. 3 (Rev. 4 planned) - CPC ver. 1 (ver. 2 planned) - COICOP - COFOG - Plans to make BoP coherent with BPM6 Quality assessment framework is not available but implementation is planned Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata Centralized business register is in use Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics 1 This national summary was prepared by ESCAP Statistics Division in November, 2013. Results of the Capacity Screening questionnaire were received in November, 2013 from 50 of the 58 member countries who were contacted. Further information on RPES and the Core Set is available here: http://www.unescap.org/official-documents/committee-on-statistics/session/2 2 ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014 Technical Skills Human resources are considered adequate for producing the Core Set Documentation of internal processes and staff manuals are available Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations Table Legend Meet or Exceed Recommendations Price and Costs Demand and Output Income and Wealth ● Below Recommendations × Unavailable or No Response Core Indicator Reported Freq. RPES recommendations Consumer price index (CPI) Monthly Quarterly Producer price index (PPI) Monthly Quarterly Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Wages / Earnings data Every 4 years Quarterly ● Labour costs index / Wage index Quarterly Quarterly GDP (production) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly External trade – merchandise Monthly Monthly External trade – services Monthly Quarterly Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Monthly Quarterly STI – services output Unavailable Quarterly × STI – consumer demand Unavailable Quarterly × STI – fixed investment Quarterly Quarterly STI – inventories Unavailable Quarterly × Economy structure statistics Annually Every 5 years Productivity Annually Annually Integrated national accounts Quarterly Annually Institutional sector accounts Unavailable Annually × Balance of payments (BOP) Monthly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Quarterly Annually External debt Quarterly Quarterly Income distribution Annually Every 5 years Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Annually Monthly ● Money and Banking Government Labour Market Natural Resources and Environment Broad money and credit aggregates Annually Monthly ● Interest rate statistics Daily Monthly General government operations Monthly Quarterly General government debt Monthly Quarterly Labour supply and demand Unavailable Annually × Hours worked Quarterly Quarterly Natural resources Unavailable Annually × Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above) Meet or Exceed Recommendations 20 Below Recommendations Unavailable or No Response 3 8