DIE Releases Preliminary Results Of Household Labor Force Survey

ANKARA - The total employment was 20 million 811 thousand, and the total unemployment was 2 million 396 thousand as of end-December 2003.
The State Institute of Statistics (DIE) announced on Sunday preliminary results of the third fourth of 2003 Household Labor Force Survey, which was adapted by International Labor Organization`s (ILO) definitions.
According to the results, the total labor force participation rate was estimated to be 47.1 percent and the unemployment rate was estimated to be 10.3 percent for Turkey.
Non-institutional civilian population in Turkey reached to 69 million 884 thousand with an increase of 1 million 84 thousand compared to the results of the fourth quarter of 2002.
When this number was examined by urban and rural areas, an increase of 1 million 83 thousand in urban areas (42 million 541 thousand), an increase of 1 thousand in rural areas (27 million 343 thousand) were emerged. According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2003 Household Labor Force Survey, 60.9 percent of the non-institutional civilian population was residing in urban areas.
Non-institutional civilian working age population (15 years old and over) was estimated to be 49 million 250 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2003 with an increase of 882 thousand when compared to the results of the same quarter of previous year. 61.7 percent of the non-institutional civilian working age population was male.
The labor force participation rate which is an important indicator of labor force, decreased for Turkey as a whole and also for urban and rural areas when compared to the results of the fourth quarter of 2002.
The labor force participation decreased from 50.3 percent to 47.1 percent for total, decreased from 44.7 percent to 43.1 percent for urban areas, and decreased from 59.2 percent to 53.6 percent for rural areas. In the same period when the labor force participation rate was examined by sex, it decreased from 71.8 percent to 69.5 percent for male, and from 29.2 percent to 25.1 percent for female.

Employment rate, another important indicator explaining the improvement in employment decreased from 44.8 percent to 42.3 percent for Turkey, from 38.1 percent to 37.7 percent for urban areas, and from 55.3 percent to 49.5 percent for rural areas in the fourth quarter of 2003 when compared with the results of the same quarter of 2002.
The State Institute of Statistics (DIE) announced on Sunday preliminary results of the fourth quarter of 2003 Household Labor Force Survey, which was adapted by International Labor Organization`s (ILO) definitions.
According to the results, total employment was estimated 20 million 811 thousand with a decrease of 847 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2003, when compared to the results of the same quarter of previous year.
In the fourth quarter of 2003, 27.2 percent (5 million 652 thousand) of the total employment was female. The women employment decreased by 11.3 percent (721 thousand) according to the results of the same quarter of previous year. This mostly results from a decrease in the number of unpaid family workers working in agriculture sector. When the share of women employment in total employment was 19.9 percent in urban areas, this rate was 35.9 percent in rural areas.
57.1 percent of employed women were working in agriculture sector and 80.7 percent of them were unpaid family workers.
48.7 percent of employed women in Turkey (2 million 755 thousand) were working as unpaid family workers. The share of female unpaid family workers in total unpaid family workers was 70.3 percent.
Employed children between 12-17 age group in Turkey were estimated to be 654 thousand according to the results of the fourth quarter of 2003. The child employment between the same age group decreased by 22.4 percent (189 thousand) according to the same quarter of previous year. 46.7 percent of employed children in this age group were in agriculture sector, 27.3 percent of them were in services sector and 25.9 percent of them were in industry sector. 43.4 percent of employed children (284 thousand) between 12-17 age group were in urban areas. 62.2 percent of employed children in this age group were male in Turkey.
According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2003, the employed persons in public sector was estimated to be 3 million 245 thousand with a decrease of 2.8 percent, when compared with the results of the same quarter of previous year. 73.1 percent of the employed persons in public sector were residing in urban areas. The share of employed persons in public sector within total employment was 15.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003. This share was estimated to be 15.6 percent according to the results of the fourth quarter of 2002.
When employed persons were examined by the status of social security registration in their current job, 26.8 percent of total employed persons were registered to Social Insurance Institution, 10.5 percent of them were registered to Retirement Fund and 10.8 percent of them were registered to Self Employment Organization according to the results of the fourth quarter of 2003. 51.6 percent of total employed persons were not registered to any social security institutions in Turkey. This rate was 32.7 percent for urban areas and was 74.7 percent for rural areas. 63 percent of total employed persons who were not registered to any social security institutions were male.

(UK-MS) 14.03.2004