economic cooperation organization 8th meeting of the national focal points meeting

PRIME MINISTRY REPUBLIC OF TURKEY TURKISH STATISTICAL INSTITUTE TurkStat

ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION8th Meeting of the National Focal Points Meeting

on Economic Research and Statistics Baku, 21-22 April 2011

Country Report

Turkish Statistical Institute


Outline

1. Turkish Statistical System and TurkStat

2. Recent Works

3. International Cooperation Activities of TurkStat

realized in 2010 and 2011


1. Turkish Statistical System and TurkStat

Centralised with specific task distribution to other institutions

Main Actor: Turkstat, producing more than 85 % of all statistics organised under Prime Ministry

Other Actors: Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Undersecretariat of Treasury and other Ministries and institutions having administrative registers or databases serving statistical purposes


Organization Chart of Turkstat

President

Legal Advisors Media and Public RelationsAdvisorStatistical Advisors

26 Regional Offices

Training And Research Center

Vice President Vice President Vice President

Bureau of President


Regional Organization of TurkStat

Regional offices are more efficient and functional

Edirne İstanbul

İzmir

BursaKocaeliZonguldak

ANKARA

Samsun

AdanaAntalya

Trabzon

Kars

Van

Gaziantep

DenizliKonya

KayseriMalatya

Diyarbakır

ErzurumNevşehir

Kastamonu

Hatay

Siirt

Manisa

Balıkesir


Total Staff: 3308

In the headquarter: 1036

In the regional offices: 2272


Dissemination and Database

57 main statistical databases were disseminated dynamically in TurkStat web pages for all users.(http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/jsp/duyuru/upload/vt_en/vt.htm)

National Data Release Calendar (for every official data, not only produced by Turkstat, but also for other public institutions)

All publications in Turkish and English.

Classification Server

Classification server is available on web site of TurkStat.(http://tuikapp.tuik.gov.tr/DIESS/ChangeLocaleAction.do?dil=en)


2. Recent Works

Official Statistics Programme (OSP) & Strategic Plan (SP)

• Current Official Statistics Program and Strategic Plan has been prepared for 2007 – 2011 (division of work among institutions in Turkish Statistical System).

• The studies for second planning period for OSP & SP (2012-2016) have been initiated in 2010 in coordination with relevant institutions and organizations within the Turkish Statistical System.


Quarterly National Accounts

Revision studies of GDP based on 2005 by production, expenditure and income approaches are going on. New classification is NACE Rev. 2.

Comprehensive revisions of Turkish National Accounts SystemBase Year 1948 ( Published in 1950 )Base Year 1968 ( Published in 1972 )Base Year 1987 ( Published in 1993 )Base Year 1998 ( Published in 2008 )

Population and Housing Survey

Population and Housing Survey will be conducted in October 2011 in line with EU requirements with the combined method (by using population registers and by conducting register based large-scaled sampling survey).


3. International Cooperation Activities of TurkStatRealized in 2010 and 2011

World Statistics Day

World Statistics Day was celebrated under the auspices of United Nations on 20th October 2010.

In this context, a conference was organized under the headlines as “Statistical Registers in the History of Middle East and Turkey” and “World Dynamics, Statistics and Decision Systems” at TurkStat.

A web-site dedicated to this event (both in Turkish and English) was created http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/digEn/dig.html

World Statistics Day will be celebrated on 25th April of every year which is the establishment date of TurkStat.


TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

TurkStat implements bilateral technical cooperation programs in

order to exchange the technical expertise on the various

statistical subjects with

Caucasian,

Central Asia,

Balkan,

Middle East

some African countries

in general with the financial support of the Turkish International

Cooperation Agency (TIKA).


Technical supports between 2005-2011

38 consultancy services were provided in abroad,

70 TurkStat experts carried out the consultancy services,

58 training programs were organized at TurkStat,

254 experts from beneficiary countries attended to the courses, workshops/seminars, on-the-job training programs organized by TurkStat.


Ongoing Projects

2010 – 2011 Palestine (Agricultural Statistics, Cultural Statistics, Tourism Statistics)

2010 - 2011 Moldova (Classifications of Statistics)

Planned Projects

2011-2012 Turkmenistan (Agricultural Statistics)

2011-2013 Azerbaijan (Fishery statistics, Annual Business Statistics, Survey on time use, Labour Force Statistics, Information Technologies)


Technical Cooperation in 2010-2011

Palestine Statistical Office

• 8 experts from Palestine, Ankara, • Subjects: “Communication Technologies”, “Agricultural Statistics”

and “Tourism Statistics”funded by Turkish International Cooperation Agency (TICA) and World Bank

Turkmenistan:

• 6 TurkStat experts,in Ashgabat • Subjects: Three training programs namely “International

Classifications”, “Annual Business Statistics” and “Tourism Statistics”funded by TICA



• Egypt- 1 expert from TurkStat, in EgyptSubject: Consultancy service on “Sampling of Child Labour Surveys”funded by ILO

• Moldova- 5 Moldovian experts, AnkaraSubject: Training on “Classifications”funded by TICA,



Tajikistan: • 20 experts from Tajikistan, 3 training programmes in TurkStat

Subjects: “Publication Standards”, “Environmental Statistics” and “Population Statistics” funded by TICA and World Bank

• 2 experts of TurkStat, DushanbeSubject: Consultancy service on “Computer Technologies and SPSS Software”funded by TICA

• 1 expert of TurkStat, in March 2010, DushanbeSubject: Consultancy service on “Statistical Quality”funded by SESRIC


“Population Census and related information technologies”, high level executives of Statistics Indonesia visited TurkStat in 2010

“2000 Turkish Population Census and Planned 2011 Turkish Population Survey”, “Migration Statistics” and “Information and Communication Technologies”, Directors from Bosnia and Herzegovina visited TurkStat in 2010.

“Environmental Statistics, Indicators and Accounts”, high level executives of Iraq visited TurkStat in April 2011.

High-level Bileteral Meetings in 2010-2011


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