2003 HOUSEHOLD LABOUR FORCE SURVEY RESULTS

II) THE RESULTS OF THE YEAR 2003

When the annual preliminary results of 2003 Household Labour Force Survey are examined on the basis of geographic regions and selected province centers, the following results were emerged in labour market.

POPULATION AGED 15 YEARS AND OVER
Turkey

In year 2003, non-institutional working age population (15 years and over) was estimated to be 48 million 912 thousand persons for Turkey. The ratio of non-institutional working age population within the non-institutional civilian population was estimated to be 70.4% for Turkey, 71% for urban areas and 69.5% for rural areas.

Geographical Regions

When the ratio of non-institutional working age population in regions within the non-institutional working age population of Turkey was examined; the highest rate was emerged in Marmara Region with 27.6% and the lowest rate was emerged in East Anatolia Region with 7.9%.

When 80.5% of non-institutional working age population in Marmara Region were residing in urban areas, 38.1% of those in Black Sea Region were residing in urban areas (Table 1)(Table 2)(Table 3).

Selected Nine Province Centers

When the non-institutional working age population was examined by selected nine province centers; 74.9% of non-institutional civilian population in Istanbul, 76.5% of those in Ankara and 77.5% of those in İzmir comprise the non-institutional working age population .(Table 7).

LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE
Turkey

According to the results of 2003 HLFS, the labour force participation rate was estimated to be 48.3% for Turkey, 70.4% for male and 26.6% for female. This rate in urban areas; was 43.8% for total, 68.9% for male and 18.5% for female. In rural areas; it was 55.5% for total, 72.9% for male and 39% for female.

Geographical Regions

When the labour force participation rate was examined by regions, the highest				In the year 2003, the highest
rate was estimated to be 61.8% in Black Sea Region and the lowest rate was estimated				labour force participation rate
to be 42% in Central Anatolia Region. While the highest LFPR for male was				was in Black Sea Region with
estimated to be 75.1% in Southeast Anatolia Region, the lowest rate was estimated				61.8%.
to be 66.6% in Aegean Region.

The highest rate for female was 50.2% in Black Sea Region and the lowest rate was 17.9% in Central Anatolia Region. While the highest LFPR for male in urban areas was emerged in Southeast Anatolia with 74.5%, the lowest LFPR was emerged in Aegean Region with 64.5%. In urban areas the highest LFPR for female was emerged in Black Sea Region with 23.7% and the lowest LFPR was emerged in Southeast Anatolia Region with 7.5%. While the highest LFPR for male in rural areas was emerged in Black Sea Region with 77.7%, the lowest LFPR was emerged in Central Anatolia Region and East Anatolia Region with 68.1%. In rural areas the highest LFPR for female was emerged in Black Sea Region with 66.2% and the lowest LFPR was emerged in Central Anatolia Region with 21.3%.

Selected Nine Province Centers

Among the selected nine province centers, Bursa had the highest LFPR				Among the selected nine
with 48.9% and Erzurum had the lowest LFPR with 32.9%. Gaziantep had				province centers, the
the highest LFPR with 74.2% highest LFPR with 74.2% for male. Bursa				highest labour force
had the highest LFPR with 27.9% for female. The lowest LFPR for male				participation rate was
were emerged in İzmir with 58.5% and was 6.7% for female in Gaziantep.				in Bursa with 48.9%.

EMPLOYMENT
Turkey

Total employment was estimated to be 21 million 147 thousand persons according to the results of 2003 HLFS. While 15 million 256 thousand persons of them was male, 5 million 891 thousand persons was female. The employment rate was 43.2% for whole Turkey, 37.7% for urban areas and 51.9% for rural areas.

In the year 2003, when the distribution of employment was examined in four main sectors; agriculture, industry, construction and services, the share of these sectors in total employment was 33.9%, 18.2%, 4.6% and 43.4% respectively. In Turkey, 7 million 165 thousand persons were employed in agriculture sector. 50.9% of them (3 million 646 thousand persons) were unpaid family workers. 75.3% of the unpaid family workers in agricultural sector (2 million 747 thousand persons) were female (Table 4)(Table 5)(Table 6).

Geographical Regions

27.6% of the employed persons were residing in Marmara region in Turkey. When the distribution of employment was examined by sex, 28.8% of employed male was in Marmara Region and 25.7% of employed women was in Black Sea Region.

The highest employment rate was emerged in Black Sea region with 58.9%.				In the year 2003, the highest
This was follewed by Marmara Region with 43.2%, East Anatolia Region				employment rate was in Black
with 43%, Mediterranean Region 42.1%, Aegean Region with 40.4% respectively.				Sea with 58.9%.

When the distribution of employment by region was examined in four main sectors; agriculture, industry, construction and services, the regions having the highest employed person in agriculture were Black Sea Region with 61% and East Anatolia Region with 53.2%. The regions having the highest employed persons in industry were Marmara Regions with 31.5% and Aegean Region with 19%. The regions having the highest employed persons in construction were Central Anatolia Region with 7% and Marmara Region with 4.9%. The regions having the highest employed persons in services were Central Anatolia Region with 55.2% and Marmara with 49.4%.

Selected Nine Province Centers

When the employed persons were examined by selected province centers; the highest employment was 2 million 544 thousand persons in Istanbul, the lowest employment was 69 thousand persons in Erzurum. The province center having the highest employment rate was Antalya with 43.1%, and the province center having the lowest employment rate was Adana with 28.6%.

When the share of employed persons in agriculture, industry, construction and services sectors to total employment was examined, the highest employment was in services sector except for Bursa and the lowest employment was in agriculture sector among all selected province centers except for Antalya and Bursa. The province center had the highest employment in industry sector was Bursa with 45.4%. This was followed by Gaziantep with 41.9% and İstanbul with 33.1% respectively (Table 8).

UNEMPLOYMENT
Turkey

The number of unemployed persons was estimated to be 2 million 493 thousand persons, and the unemployment rate was estimated to be 10.5% for Turkey as a whole.

When the unemployment rate was examined by sex it was 10.7% for male and 10.1% for female. The unemployment rate for urban areas was estimated to be 13.8% for total, 12.6% for male and 18.3% for female. In rural areas, this rate was estimated to be 6.5% for total, 7.9% for male and 4.2% for female.

In the year 2003, the unemployment rate of educated young				In the year 2003, the annual
people was estimated to be 27.8% for Turkey. The unemployment				unemployment rate of educated young
rate of the educated young people in urban areas was				people was estimated to be 27.8% for
29.7% and 22.9% in rural areas.				Turkey.

Geographical Regions

In the year 2003, the region having the highest unemployment rate was Southeast Anatolia with 21.6% and the region having the lowest unemployment rate was Black Sea with 4.8%.

When the unemployment rate in regions was examined by sex, the unemployment rate was higher for female in Marmara, Central Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia Regions according to male, this rate was higher for male in Aegean, Mediterranean, Black Sea and East Anatolia Regions to female. The highest unemployment rate was in Southeast Anatolia region with 23% within urban areas and with 20.1% within rural areas.

The region, which had the highest unemployment rate of educated young				In the year 2003, the region,
people, was Southeast Anatolia with 45.2% for total and with 39.9% for				which had the highest
urban areas and with 63.1% for rural areas. The regions having				unemployment rate of
the lowest unemployment rate of educated young people were Marmara and				educated young people,
East Anatolia with 25.4% for total, Marmara with 26.3% for urban areas,				was Southeast Anatolia
and East Anatolia with 17% for rural areas.				with 45.2%.

Selected Nine Province Centers

The province centers having the highest unemployment				Among the selected nine province centers, the province
rate among selected nine province centers was Gaziantep				having the highest
with 20.3%, and the province has the lowest unemployment				unemployment rate of educated young people
rate was Antalya with 10%.				was İzmir with 36.9 %.

When the unemployment rate of province centers was examined by sex, Gaziantep had the highest unemployment rate for male with %19.9 and for female with 25.2%.