Date:    21.06.2002

PRESIDENT OF STATE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS
EXPLAINED THE RESULT  OF THE INDEXES OF PRODUCTION WORKERS, PRODUCTION WORKED HOURS, PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF PRODUCTION WORKED PER CAPITA AND PER PRODUCTION WORKED HOURS WHICH ARE CALCULATED USING THE DATA COMPILED FROM 3000 LARGE SCALE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2002 (JANUARY-FEBRUARY-MARCH) TAKING 1997 AS A BASE YEAR ACCORDING TO THE ISIC.REV.3

ACCORDING TO THE RESULT OF INDEXES OF PRODUCTION WORKERS, PRODUCTION WORKED HOURS AND PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF PRODUCTION WORKED PER CAPITA AND PER PRODUCTION WORKED HOURS; PRODUCTION WORKERS DECREASED BY 6.9 %, WORKED HOURS DECREASED BY 6.3 %, PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF PRODUCTION WORKED PER CAPITA INCREASED BY 10.8 % AND PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY IN PER PRODUCTION WORKED HOURS INCREASED 10.1 % IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2002 OVER TO THE SAME QUARTER OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

    THE DATA USED CALCULATING  THE  INDEXES  ARE CONDUCTED FROM  ALL  MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIAL   ESTABLISHMENTS   IN   PUBLIC  SECTOR  AND   THE   ESTABLISHMENTS  IN  PRIVATE SECTOR   WHICH   REPRESENT   89 %   VALUE    ADDED   OF    THE   MANUFACTURING   INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGED 10 OR MORE EMPLOYEES.




     Obtaining the results the number of production workers and partial productivity of production worked per capita for the first quarter of  2002 to the same quarter of the previous year;

       The number of production workers decreased by 11.1 %, partial productivity increased by 15.1 % in public sector.
       The number of production workers decreased by 6.3 %, partial productivity increased by 10.3 % in private sector.

       When the number of production worked hours of the same establishments and per hours worked partial productivity indexes for the first quarter of 2002 compared to the same quarter of the previous year;

       The number of production worked hours decreased by 11.5 %, partial productivity increased by 15.7 % in public  sector.
       The number of production worked hours decreased by  5.5 %, partial productivity increased by 9.4 % in private   sector.