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PRIME MINISTRY REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
TURKISH STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
NEW METHOD FOR 2010
POPULATION AND HOUSING
CENSUS OF TURKEY
Considerations about data quality and coverage
TURKISH STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
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May 2008
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CONTENTS
1. Background
2. Method of Establishing the ABPRS
3. Method for Increasing Coverage of ABPRS
4. Basic Results of ABPRS
5. Plans for 2010 Census
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Population Census
Method
 14 tradition censuses since 1927
 De facto definiton
 One day application with curfew
 Face to face interview
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Population Census
Problems
 Overcounting (imaginary) population
 No information on household and family
structure
 Increasing cost of the census
 duration of data processing around 3.5 years
 Information available with ten years interval
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Population Registration System
 Central Population Registration System (MERNIS) based
on family ledgers,
 Maintenance of the system by the General Directorate
of Population and Citizenship Affairs of the Ministry of
Interior,
 No information was available on place of usual
residence,
 Unique ID number for Turkish Citizens available since
2001
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Method of Establishing the ABPRS
Purpose ;
 To establish National Address Database (NAD) that
covers all addresses within the boundaries of the
country,
 To establish Address Based Population Registration
System covering information on place of residence of
all people living in the country.
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Legal Base
1.
The Population Services Law No. 5490,
2.
The regulation related to Address and Numbering Study
and
3.
The Turkish Statistical Law No. 5429 (related articles)
constitute the legal base of the study.
Population Services Law charged;

Turkish Statistical Institute for establishing the system,

Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Population and
Citizenship Affairs for maintaining the system.
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How The System Was Established?
MERNIS
(Turkish Citizens)
National Address
Database
(NAD)
MATCHING the information
in MERNIS and addresses
in the NAD by using the
Turkish Republic
identification numbers
Turkish citizens
living in abroad
ABPRS
Foreigners
living
in Turkey
MATCHING foreign
citizens and addresses in
the NAD by using
passport numbers
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General Stages
Numbering study
and
establishment of
the NAD
Control of
the NAD
Updating
the system
Checking the usual
residence addresses
from the address
lists at the offices of
the head of the
quarters (or head of
the villages)
Data entry and
matching the
information with
MERNIS
Field
application for
collecting
information on
usual residence
addresses
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Monitoring Fieldwork
1- Controller follow up form for monitoring each step of field work:
visited dwellings, result of interview, number of form given to data
processing and office, etc.
carried out by enumerators
(enumeration area)
evaluated by controllers, supervisors and regional offices
2- Daily and weekly reports derived from data entry: Number of visited
dwellings, results of interview, reasons for not interview, number of
persons counted, number of persons not matched with MERNIS
evaluated by supervisors, regional and central organizations
of TurkStat.
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Evaluation
1- Content error; Inconsistent information listed weekly
and sent to regional offices.
2- Coverage error;
 Comparison with results of previous census (4 %
under coverage)
 Comparison with other administrative records
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Method of Increasing Coverage
(a)- Comparison with other administrative records
 50 organizations
 Universities (111), banks, GSM operators
Total of 320 million records
were matched with ABPRS to define undercovered
persons.
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Method of Increasing Coverage
(b)- Computer Assisted Telephone Interview System
were used to identify unregistered persons and their
addresses through relatives (wife/husband, children,
mother/father, sister/brother) of the persons.
(c)- Unregistered people were called if phone number
available and also informed through SMS message and
advertisement campaign.
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ABPRS 2007 Results
First results refering December 31, 2007 based on the new
system were announced to the public on January 21, 2008.
The results of the system will be announced annually.
 Population by localities (province, district, sub-district and
village)
 City and village population
 Age and sex structure
 Nationality of persons living in Turkey (Turkish citizens and
foreigners)
All information is available on the web site (www.turkstat.gov.tr)
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Population pyramid, 2007
Population: 70 586 256
90+
85-89
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
Age group
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
6,00
Male
4,00
Female
2,00
0,00
%
2,00
4,00
6,00
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Plans for 2010 Census
a)- Information of ABPRS will be improved:
 National Education Statistics Database was established
through currently students and graduated students of the
primary/high school and university/upper university records
 Analysing other official records to produce census information
 All institutes and organizations are obliged to use information
in the system according to the law
 TurkStat are going to use ABPRS for household surveys
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Plans for 2010 Census
b)- In 2010 census it is planned to apply two
questionnaires
Short questionnaire for updating information available in
ABPRS (place of residence, age, sex, nationality, completed
level of education, type of address)
Long questionnaire for collecting other social, demographic
and economic characteristics of population and housing
information (considering UNECE/EU recommendations)
All stages of the planned method will be tested in 2009
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