II) THE RESULTS OF THE YEAR 2002
When the twelve-monthly preliminary results of 2002 Household Labour Force Survey are examined on the basis of geographic regions and selected province centers, the following results emerged in labour market.
POPULATION AGED 15 YEARS AND OVERTurkey
In year 2002, non-institutional working age population (15 years and over) was estimated to be 46 million 650 thousand persons for Turkey. The ratio of non-institutional working age population to the non-institutional civilian population was estimated to be 70.6% for Turkey, 71.3% for urban areas and 69.6% for rural areas.
Geographical Regions
When the ratio of non-institutional working age population to the non-institutional working age population was examined by regions; the highest rate was emerged in Marmara Region with 28.8% and the lowest rate was emerged in East Anatolia Region with 7.5%.
When 80.3% of non-institutional working age population in Marmara Region were residing in urban areas, 40% 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; 75.6% of non-institutional civilian population in Istanbul, 76.7% of those in Ankara and 77.3% of those in Ýzmir comprise the non-institutional working age population.(Table 7).
LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATETurkey
According to the results of 2002 HLFS, the labour force participation rate was estimated to be 48.7% for Turkey, 70.5% for male and 26.9% for female. This rate in urban areas; was 43.8% for total, 68.7% for male and 18.7% for female. In rural areas; it was 57.1% for total, 73.7% for male and 40.9% for female.
Geographical Regions
| When the labour force participation rate was examined by regions, the highest | ||||
| rate was estimated to be 61% in Black Sea Region and the lowest rate was estimated | ||||
| to be 42.1% in Central AnatoliaRegion. While the highest LFPR for male was | ||||
| estimated to be 72.8% in Marmara Region, the lowest rate was estimated to be | ||||
| 66% in Central Anatolia Region. |
The highest rate for female was 49.8% in Black Sea Region and the lowest rate was 18.3% in Central Anatolia Region. While the highest LFPR for male in urban areas was emerged in Marmara with 72.1%, the lowest LFPR was emerged in East Anatolia region with 63.7%. The highest LFPR for female was emerged in Black Sea Region with 24.9% and the lowest LFPR was emerged in East Anatolia Region with 6.9%. While the highest LFPR for male in rural areas was emerged in Black Sea Region with 76.4%, the lowest LFPR was emerged in East Anatolia Region with 69.4%. The highest LFPR for female was emerged in Black Sea region with 66% and the lowest LFPR was emerged in East Anatolia region with 23.6%.
Selected Nine Province Centers
| Among the selected nine province centers, Antalya had the highest LFPR with 48.1% | ||||
| and Erzurum had the lowest LFPR with 32.4%. Gaziantep had the highest LFPR with 71.6% | ||||
| for male. Antalya had the highest LFPR with 26.6% for female. The lowest LFPR for male | ||||
| were emerged in Ankara and Erzurum with 60.6% and 60.7% respectively, and | ||||
| was 4.8% for female in Erzurum. | ||||
Turkey
Total employment was estimated to be 20 million 287 thousand persons according to the results of 2002 HLFS. While 14 million 615 thousand persons of them was male, 5 million 672 thousand persons was female. The employment rate was 43.5% for whole Turkey, 37.5% for urban areas and 53.8% for rural areas.
In the year 2002, 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 33.2%, 19.2%, 4.6% and 43% respectively. In Turkey, 6 million 745 thousand persons were employed in agriculture sector. 51.8% of them (3 million 496 thousand persons) were unpaid family workers. 73.7% of the unpaid family workers in agricultural sector (2 million 578 thousand persons) were female (Table 4)(Table 5)(Table 6).
Geographical Regions
28.5% of the employed persons were residing in Marmara Region in Turkey. When the distribution of employment was examined by sex, 29.4% of employed male and 26.2% of employed women was in Marmara Region.
| The highest employment rate was emerged in Black Sea region with 58% | ||||
| and in Aegean and in East Anatolia region with 43.4%. This was followed by | ||||
| Marmara region (43.1%), Mediterranean region (41.2%), Southeast Anatolia | ||||
| region (39.7%), Central Anatolia Region (37.9%) respectively. |
When the distribution of employment by region was examined in four main sectors; agriculture, industry, construction and services, the regions having the highest employed persons in agriculture were Black Sea Region with 60.1% and East Anatolia Region with 50.1%. The regions having the highest employed persons in industry were Marmara Regions with 32.4% and Aegean Region with 22.2%. The regions having the highest employed persons in construction were Southeast Anatolia Region with 6.1% and Mediterranean Region with 6%. The regions having the highest employed persons in services were Central Anatolia Region with 55.2% and Mediterranean with 49.8%.
Selected Nine Province Centers
When the employed persons were examined by selected province centers; the highest employment was 2 million 634 thousand persons in Istanbul, the lowest employment was 68 thousand persons in Erzurum. The province center having the highest employment rate was Antalya with 43.3%, and the province center having the lowest employment rate was Adana with 28.4%.
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 and the lowest employment was in agriculture sector among all selected province centers except for Antalya. The province center had the highest employment in industry sector was Bursa with 44.4%. This was followed by Gaziantep with 32.8% and Istanbul with 32.8% respectively (Table 8).
UNEMPLOYMENTTurkey
The number of unemployed persons was estimated to be 2 million 412 thousand persons, and the unemployment rate was estimated to be 10.6% for Turkey as a whole.
When the unemployment rate was examined by sex it was 10.9% for male and 9.9% for female. However, the unemployment rate for urban areas was estimated to be 14.3% for total, 13.1% for male and 18.8% for female. In rural areas, this rate was estimated to be 5.8% for total, 7.3% for male and 3% for female.
| In the year 2002, the unemployment rate of educated young | ||||
| people was estimated to be 29.4% for Turkey. The unemployment | ||||
| rate of the educated young people in urban areas was | ||||
| 31.2% and 24.5% in rural areas. | ||||
Geographical Regions
In the year 2002, the region having the highest unemployment rate was Marmara with 13.4% and the region having the lowest unemployment rate was Black Sea with 4.9%.
When the unemployment rate in regions was examined by sex, although the unemployment rate was higher for female in Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean and Central Anatolia regions according to male, this rate was higher for male in Black Sea, East Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia regions. The highest unemployment rate was in Southeast Anatolia region with 17.6% within urban areas and Marmara region with 8.9% within rural areas.
| The region, which had the highest unemployment rate of educated young | ||||
| people, was Southeast Anatolia with 34.8% for total and with 36% for | ||||
| urban areas and was Marmara with 33% for rural areas. The regions having | ||||
| the lowest unemployment rate of educated young people were Black Sea | ||||
| with 25.6% for total, Marmara with 28.4% for urban areas, and Central Anatolia | ||||
| with 15.4% for rural areas. |
Selected Nine Province Centers
| The province centers having the highest unemployment rate among | ||||
| selected nine province centers was Adana with 23.9%, and the province | ||||
| has the lowest unemployment rate was Erzurum with 9.8%. | ||||
| When the unemployment rate of province centers was examined by sex, | ||||
| Adana had the highest unemployment rate for male and for female with | ||||
| 21.2% and 35.7% respectively. |
