TURKISH STATISTICAL SYSTEM

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Turkish Statistical System

Legal Framework

Primary LegislationStatistical Law, No: 5429, 18 November 2005

Secondary Legislation• By-law on Statistical Council

(Official Gazette, No: 26159, 5 May 2006)• By-law on Data Quality Control Board

(Official Gazette, No: 26204, 20 June 2006)• By-law on Data Security and Confidentiality

(Official Gazette, No: 26204, 20 June 2006)

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Turkish Statistical System (cont’d)

The Nature of the Turkish Statistical System

- Centralised with specific task distribution to other institutions

- Main Actor: Turkstat, producing more than 85 % of all statistics organised under Prime Ministry, having technical and scientific autonomy

- Other Actors: Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Treasury, Ministries and institutions having administrative registers or

databases serving statistical purposes

- Decentralised in data compilation in surveys and censuses (by means of 26 regional offices)

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Turkish Statistical System (cont’d)

Main principles (Art. 3, 4)

Reliability

Consistency

Impartiality

Confidentiality

Timeliness

Transparency

Cost effectiveness

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Turkish Statistical System (cont’d)

Turkstat is responsible for coordination of statistics system

Coordination Tools:

1) Statistical Council (comprised of all ministries and relevant NGO’s inStatistical area, under the chair of Turkstat)2) Official Statistics Program (5 year, adopted by Council of Minist.)3) Monitoring reports (annually)4) Data Quality Control Board (under Turkstat to monitor all quality aspectsof statistical production in Turkish Stat. System)5) Data Dissemination Board (under Turkstat to standardise disseminationof all statistical production in Turkey)6) Permanent/temporary committees with other public institutions7) Regular meetings with stakeholders8) Protocols with other institutions