Turkey
Source of the series
Social Insurance Institution reports.
Title of the series
Sosyal Sigortalar Kurumu (SSK) Yillik Istatistikler (Social Insurance Institution Annual Statistics).
Organization responsible
Data collection, statistical processing and publication/dissemination of the statistics:
The General Directorate, Social Insurance Institution, attached to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
Main topics covered
Employment and earnings.
Periodicity or frequency of availability of the statistics
Annual.
Reference period
The beginning of the month of September.
Coverage of the statistics
Geographical:
the whole country.
Industrial:
all economic activities.
Establishments:
all types and sizes.
Persons:
all insured employees employed under a service contract in private and state enterprises.
Occupations:
all occupations of those employed under a contract of employment who fall within the scope of the Social Insurance Law No. 506.
Concepts and definitions
Employment:
refers to the total number of employees, including apprentices and temporary workers, working in workplaces subject to the Social Insurance Law No. 506. All persons who are registered with the insurance scheme are defined as employed upon entry into service and are thus covered by the statistics.
Earnings:
refer to average gross daily earnings, including pay for normal time worked, overtime payments, severance pay and seniority and production premiums. The minimum and maximum limits for daily and monthly earnings used for determining social security contributions and benefits are fixed by law.
Hours of work:
refer to normal hours of work. Daily normal hours are 7.5 hours (weekly 45 hours) according to Law No. 1475.
Classifications
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
Branches of Work Covered by the Social Insurance Act.
Number of groups used for coding:
10 (0-9) major groups.
Applied to:
employment and earnings.
Link to ISIC and level:
Rev.2 (1968).
Other classifications:
employment and earnings data are classified by sex and sector (public and private).
Data collection
Data collection method:
the data are obtained from information contained in the contribution certificates furnished by employers as monthly insurance reports to the Social Insurance Institution.
Updating of the administrative system:
monthly.
Data processing, editing and consistency checks
Information not available.
Adjustments
Not available.
Types of estimates
Total number of employees;
Average daily earnings.
Daily earnings represent the ratio between total earnings taken as the basis for contributions and the number of days for which contributions have been paid.
Construction of indices
None.
Indicators of reliability of the estimates
Not available.
Available series
Number of employees as of September of each year;
Average earnings of employees.
History of the statistics
Starting date of the statistical series:
1950.
Major changes and revisions:
The Social Insurance Law No. 506, which is presently in force, entered into effect on 1 March 1965. Its coverage was extended, by comparison with the previous social insurance laws.
Documentation and dissemination
Documentation:
Social Insurance Institution, General Directorate: Annual Statistics of Social Insurance Institution (Ankara, annual);
Prime Ministry, State Institute of Statistics: Statistical Yearbook of Turkey (ibid., annual); contains employment data for the previous year (t-1) and wages data for the year before (t-2), as well as some methodological information on the source of data.
Data supplied to the ILO for dissemination
The following statistics are supplied to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics:
Paid employment by economic activity and sex;
Average daily earnings of employees, by economic activity and in manufacturing by industry group, and by sex.
Other administrative sources of data:
the social security system in Turkey is composed of three major organizations: the Social Insurance Institution (see above); the Government Employees Retirement Fund; and "Bag-Kur", i.e. the Social Security Organization for the self-employed outside the coverage of the Social Insurance Law, such as agricultural workers, craftsmen, artisans and small businessmen, technical and professional people who are registered to a chamber or professional association and shareholders of companies other than cooperatives and joint stock companies. Statistics on the number of persons covered and amounts of benefits provided are derived from The Government Employees Retirement Fund and the General Directorate of BagKur.