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Project number: TR 05 03.16 1. Basic Information

1.1 CRIS Number:

1.2 Title: Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey – Phase II

1.3 Sector: Statistics

1.4 Location: Ankara, Turkey

1.5 Duration: 24 months

2. Objectives 2.1 Overall Objective:

To upgrade the Statistical System of Turkey in order to provide adequate data and analysis for the purposes of facilitating policy decisions towards implementation of the pre-accession strategy and the adoption of the Acquis.

2.2 Project Purpose: To upgrade the Statistical System of Turkey, according to EU standards on the methodology and quality of compiling and processing statistical information and to ensure the efficient coordination by the State Institute of Statistics (SIS). The project is being implemented in several phases: The “USST-Phase I” programme is being implemented since beginning of 2003 to end in 2006, and focused on the following components;

• Setting up of a business register system, • Reform of the business statistics, their collection system and

statistical units, • Review and renovation of the IT system of the SIS, • Reform of the agricultural statistics system, • Upgrading of the regional statistical system, introduction of NUTS

classification, data collection systems and a regional indicator database,

• Smaller projects like the household budget survey, social surveys and upgrading national accounts, etc.,

• Improving dissemination of statistical data, • Establishment of a classification server with links to other

administrations, • Participation in the Community Multi-Beneficiary Programme for

Statistics, • Capacity building and institutional strengthening.

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The second phase (actual promotion phase) from 2007 to 2008 will mainly focus on capacity building of institutions responsible for sectoral statistical systems and harmonisation of data collection and processing.

In order to achieve the objectives of the project and due to the multi-sectoral character and the wide range of institutions involved, project cycle and implementation management has been structured by components. This will facilitate coordination and tender procedures.

• Improvement of Business Register System by Studying on Enterprise Groups

• Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data

• Improvement of Tourism Statistics • Improving the Business Statistics • Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System • Enhancement of environmental statistics capacity • Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to

Provide Periodical Data • Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS • Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical

Analysis • Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of

ESA95 • Improvement of information and communication technology • Multi Beneficiary Programme • Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS • Project Implementation Team

2.3 Accession Partnership and NPAA priorities

2003 Accession Partnership

In section 4 under heading of statistics “to ratify a new statistical law in line with EU standards, adopt the pending basic classifications (e.g. NACE ,CPA, Prodcom, etc.) by SIS and by all public institutions of the Turkish statistical system, fully adopt the relevant statistical units (e.g.KAU,LKAU,etc.), to revise the national accounts methodology for the implementation of ESA 95, to reinforce the strategy for the development of statistics in particular in the following areas: demographic and labour force survey statistics, regional statistics, business statistics (including business register) and agriculture statistics and to ensure adequate training of staff and improve the administrative capacity” were defined as short term priorities. Where as “to bring the business register up to EU standards and to align macroeconomic statistics further with the acquis, in particular as regards GDP estimates, harmonised consumer price

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indexes, short-term indicators, balance of payments, social statistics” were defined as medium term priorities. National Programme on the Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA) 2003

Under the section Ability to Assume Obligations of Membership, chapter 12 gives the completion of the whole conformity assessment in short and medium-term priorities of Accession Partnership (AP).

2.4 Contribution to National Development Plan Not applicable 2.5 Cross Border Impact Not applicable 3 Description

3.1 Background and justification:

The State Institute of Statistics (SIS) is the central body with the task to compile, evaluate and to publish statistical data on the economic, social, cultural and demographical development of the country. SIS produces 85% of the official statistics used in Turkey. Other public institutions, such as the Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, Tourism, Work and Social Security, Health, Industry and Trade, the Under-secretaries of Treasury and Foreign Trade, the Central Bank, the General Directorate for Security Affairs, etc. also have subject based functions in the Turkish statistical system. All these organizations have specific units for statistics, which gather data on their own specific areas and present these data for the use of SIS.

The Turkish statistical system has been producing, evaluating and publishing statistics related to the economic, social and cultural aspects of Turkey according to international standards. Compliance with the EU requirements as comparable and reliable statistical information are needed during the pre-accession process, is currently the main challenge for SIS and other producers of official statistics in Turkey.

Following Turkey’s nomination as a Candidate Country at the Helsinki Summit 1999, Eurostat and the SIS started to investigate in depth the current situation of the Statistical System of Turkey and identified urgent needs by considering the absorption capacity of the SIS. The SIS showed a strong commitment during the design process of the co-operation programme. In all fields information was provided illuminating the currently applied methods, data collection procedures and the situation in terms of applied techniques and instruments. Based on these descriptions and combined with Eurostat’s expertise and the experiences gained with other Candidate Countries the presented Statistical Co-operation Programme was defined to achieve harmonization with EU statistical standards in several steps or phases which built on each other.

Reflecting the high importance of comparable and reliable statistical information during the pre-accession process, the European Commission reacted on the expressed needs for changes in the statistical area by providing financial contribution. The intention of the

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Commission to create a single framework for pre-accession aid to Turkey intensified in turn the need for more precise specification of the Statistical Co-operation Programme. Pre-studies related to specific statistical areas are presented in Annex 7. 3.2 Sectoral rationale 3.2.1 Identification of projects

A data availability exercise was implemented in 2002 and 2003 and sent to Eurostat. In parallel, Eurostat has submitted the country tables, which present the situation of Turkey in meeting the data requirements. In SIS a number of meetings were arranged at Presidency level, to assess the situation and take necessary decisions in order to initiate the studies to increase the proportion of available data. The following areas are described as weak areas during the mentioned meetings: Financial accounts and government debt and deficit statistics, Business Registers System, Social and Demographic Statistics (Migration Statistics, Health Statistics, Vital Statistics), National Accounts (Regional Accounts, Household Accounts, GG accounts), Labour Cost Index, Tourism statistics, Business Statistics, Agricultural Statistics (Lucas Application (land use), Animal Production, Balance Sheet, Forestry, Economic Agricultural Accounts, Typology, Agricultural Crops, Agri-Environmental Statistics), Transport statistics, Production and short-term statistics, Information society (Innovation Statistics, RD Statistics, Energy statistics, Environmental Statistics, Population, social protection and Food security and rural development statistics . Except for the food security, the subjects are planned to be covered by USST phase II programming.

In May – June 2004, during the implementation of USST programme Phase I, the SIS management started planning further phases to ensure the continuity of the compliance process. Consequently, SIS department heads, USST project Co-ordinators and also the representatives of other statistics producing institutions (Ministry of Finance and Central Bank), realised a number of missions to Eurostat to develop a road map on priority areas such as Agricultural Statistics, Business Statistics, National Accounts, Social Statistics and Business Registers. USST Phase II and III have been planned together with Eurostat subject-matter experts during these missions in terms of content and duration. This multi-annual programming concept had provided a long-term vision to SIS towards the acquis. In November 2004 desk officer to Turkey from Eurostat visited SIS and project descriptions and inputs were re-evaluated.

3.2.2 Sequencing

The implementation stage of USST programme Phase I is planned to be completed by the end of 2006. Therefore, in order to ensure sustainability and avoid any gaps between the Programmes, USST Phase II is planned to start at the beginning of 2007. The financing of the Programme is expected to be included in the 2005 Financing Programme of EU.

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3.3 Results Result 1: The process of compiling, evaluating and publishing statistical data has been upgraded according to EU standards, procedures and regulations for selected sectors:

• Business Register System • Social and demographic statistics • Tourism statistics • Business statistics • Agricultural statistics system • Environmental statistics capacity • Health Statistics

Result 2: The quality and management of the Statistical System has been improved and harmonised according to EU standards by:

• Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS • Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical

Analysis • Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of

ESA95 • Improvement of information and communication technology • Multi Beneficiary Programme

Result 3: The capacity to manage upgrading the Statistical System and to efficiently implement the project will be guaranteed by:

• Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS • Project Implementation Team

3.4 Activities (including Means) In order to facilitate project cycle management, the presentation of activities follows the implementation structure defined by components. The activities, in which local and EU expertise are stated as means, will be addressed by the Service Contract for Technical Assistance. The activities, in which procurement of equipment is stated as means, will be addressed by the Supply Contract for Hardware, software and office equipment.

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The data collection activities (implementation of surveys) will be addressed by the Service Contract for Data Collection. Participation in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences, local meetings etc. will be addressed by the Direct Grant Agreement for Training. The consultancy activities under the component 3.4.12: Multi Beneficiary Programme will be addressed by the Direct Contract for Multi Beneficiary Program. 3.4.1: Improvement of Business Register System by Studying on Enterprise Groups SIS staff will clarify the units and study on Enterprise Groups with the help of both local and EU experts. A survey for Enterprise Groups will be designed together with local and EU experts and EU and Local experts will prepare the required software for further studies. The survey will be applied. The enterprise groups will be included in the Statistical Business Registers of Turkey. Possible administrative sources will be included in the Business Registers System besides the Ministry of Finance records. The prepared Turkish Business Register Regulation will be updated in order to comply with EU regulations. SIS staff will study Business Demography with the help of both local and EU experts. The questionnaires will be designed and the needed software for further studies on Business Demography will be prepared by local and EU experts. The survey will be realised. 3.4.2: Upgrading the Social and Demographic Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data. There is a need to continue the harmonisation of social statistics with EU Directives on selected areas such as modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with labour force, the labour cost index, the system of population and housing, administrative register system, international migration statistics, statistics on income and living conditions, social protection statistics, continuing vocational training survey, structure of earnings pilot survey to support pilot data collection in these areas. Modular surveys will be implemented together with the Labour Force Survey. EU consultancy will be provided for the methodology development. The field application and data analysis will be realised by SIS experts. EU consultancy will be used to adopt the labour cost index. The index figures will be analysed with local experts. A new population and housing census system compatible with EU requirements will be developed and the census questionnaire will be prepared with the assistance of. EU and local experts. A pilot census will be implemented. Immigration and asylum statistics will be improved following EU standards and a pilot survey will be implemented. A system for collecting national data will be set up by EU/local experts. Usage of administrative registers will be developed. EU expertise will be provided for these activities. An EU Expert will work on the improvement of survey methodology for the statistics on income and living conditions. An EU Expert and a local expert will analyse time series data obtained by the four waves of the SILC survey. To achieve full coverage of

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social protection statistics, relevant non-government organisations will be identified by a survey. Data will be collected and analysed, further studies will be realised to improve the quality of data with the EU experts. The revised ESSPROS Manual will be adopted and a database for social protection statistics will be created. A pilot survey for a continuing vocational training survey will be designed and conducted by EU Experts and SIS staff. Implementation of the field survey in the selected region will be done by SIS Staff. The field study of the structure of earnings survey will be realised by a contractor and will be supervised by SIS staff. An analysis of micro data and the preparation of the data to be sent to Eurostat will be done with the assistance of an EU expert. Quality Reports requested by Eurostat will be prepared with the help of an EU expert.

3.4.3: Improvement of Tourism Statistics The project will support the harmonisation of the tourism statistics with EU Directives by establishing tourism satellite accounts, improving inbound and outbound tourism statistics, setting up methodologies for accommodation statistics, employment in tourism, and domestic tourism statistics. EU experts will be provided to prepare the methodology, questionnaire and sample design for domestic tourism. A pilot survey on domestic tourism will be implemented. EU experts will assess the current situation; prepare the methodology and the questionnaire for accommodation statistics and employment statistics on tourism together with SIS staff. The methodology and coverage for both inbound and outbound tourism statistics will be improved by EU expert and SIS staff. Required data and the methodology for establishing the system of Tourism Satellite Accounts will be provided by EU expert and SIS staff. A publication will be produced covering data for inbound, outbound and domestic tourism in Turkey by SIS, with the assistance of EU expertise. 3.4.4: Improving the Business Statistics The task will be to produce business statistics in compliance with EU standards through improvement of foreign affiliates trade (FATS) and business service statistics, gathering and updating transport statistics, quality requirements of areas (short-term statistics, PRODCOM) which have been started in USST Phase I and providing short-term energy statistics harmonized with EU standards, and particularly developing a data collection system for gas and electricity prices charged to end-users. Data collection and evaluation system on Business Statistics particularly FATS; Business Service Statistics and Transport Statistics (air transport, sea transport and on carriage of goods by road statistics) will be improved according to EU standards. Pilot survey for FATS and Business Service Statistics will be implemented. Sources for business statistics will be analysed and usage of the sources will be improved. Quality concepts of short-term statistics and Prodcom will be analysed. In Structural business statistics, a preliminary data methodology will be adapted to produce quality reports and to use administrative sources for business statistics purposes. A methodology for

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related short term statistics (STS) indicators will be adapted. All requested indexes and variables will be produced for each sector and STS database will be set up. The questionnaires will be designed for the implementation of PRODCOM. Harmonisation of NACE, CPA and PRODCOM Lists will be realised. PRODCOM database will be set up. EU and local expertise will be provided to improve transport statistics on maritime and air transportation. Technical assistance will also be provided on the formulation of the pilot survey on the carriage of goods by road. The energy statistics system will be reformed through full implementation of the related EU regulations and methodology for annual energy statistics. 3.4.5: Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System The Agricultural Statistics System will be further harmonised through adopting methodology and survey procedures, calculating supply balance sheets, introducing economic accounts, improving animal production statistics, forestry statistics and price statistics (producer price). EU and local experts will support developing the methodologies for animal production statistics (milk, meat and egg statistics). Pilot surveys will be implemented for milk, meat and egg statistics. The design of questionnaires and evaluation of the survey results will be done by the help of EU and Local Experts. Crop losses of agricultural crop and production estimates will be calculated in order to achieve more reliable results. A first preliminary base for the constitution of economic agricultural accounts will be established and EU experts and local experts will be required for this. A regional test survey will be implemented. The design of questionnaires and the evaluation of the test survey results will be prepared by EU and local experts. The legislation/documents for forestry statistics will be examined and availability of the variables will be discussed with EU expert and local expert and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. Co-operation will be established with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for setting up a centralised statistical system. Standard Gross Margins coefficients will be calculated and agricultural holdings will be classified according to their typology. EU and local experts will be required for the assessment of current surveys and the preparation of the methodology for SGM and typology of agricultural holdings. An EU expert will be required to design the questionnaire and to review the method of calculating the agricultural price indices. 3.4.6: Enhancement of Environmental Statistics Capacity This project will improve the data collection methodology for the selected environmental topics such as water supply, waste water, waste and environmental expenditures, environmental accounting and air emissions in compliance with EU statistical norms and standards in order to produce comparable and reliable regular data.

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Waste statistics, water and wastewater statistics will be improved. The application of the European Waste Catalogue, SEEA tables in physical means, SERIEE framework, IPCC Guidelines and CORINAIR methodology will be studied in details together with experts. Metadata of waste variables, water and wastewater variables, environmental variables, air emissions variables and environmental expenditure variables will be analysed together with experts. Pilot surveys will be implemented. The amount of waste, water and wastewater of each sector for manufacturing industry will be estimated according to the results of the sample survey. Regular and timely reporting on environment will be improved. Database for the environmental topics will be developed and an action plan for environmental data collection will be developed. 3.4.7: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data This project will upgrade the health statistics of Turkey in order to meet European Union information demands through improving the administrative system of health statistics in Turkey by improving the knowledge and the technical capacity of staff of the Ministry of Health and the system of occupational accidents and occupational diseases statistics of Turkey. A committee consisting of relevant public institutions and universities will be founded and notification forms, which have been gathered by the Ministry of Health and other institutions’ information, will be examined by this committee. EU experts will train this committee about methodology and the committee will rearrange and standardised the notification forms. SIS will apply a pilot study for testing new statistical forms and the data collection system together with all institutions. The technical capacity of the statistics units of the Ministry of Health will be strengthened through technical assistance, know-how transfer, purchasing of necessary equipment and participation of the personnel to workshops, national and international training programs. An expert will analyse the current situation and will give consultancy on health statistics legislation to the Ministry of Health. The current system of occupational accidents and occupational statistics of Turkey and EU methodology, requirements and last developments in the health framework will be analysed and a pilot study will be conducted with EU and local experts. The occupational accidents and diseases data will be collected in compliance with EU standards by all institutions. 3.4.8: Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS The project will contribute to improve the application and usage of revised or new classifications, standards and terminology by up-dating the compliance with EU standards and revise the classification server of SIS. The classifications that will be revised in 2007 will be translated by expert translators. Existing classifications were translated into Turkish by SIS staff. Logical and physical design and programmes of the Classification Server of SIS will be revised following recommendations of users. The database of SIS’s Classification Server for classifications and standards that are revised in 2007 will be updated. Local/EU

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consultancy will be provided. Conversion works of revised EU and International Classifications into national classifications will be made. 3.4.9: Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis EU standards on the methodology and quality of compiling and processing statistical data in some selected areas have to be guaranteed such as science and technology; statistical and economic analysis including economic sentiment indicators, business cycle, competitiveness of manufacturing industry and calculation of core inflation; rural development indicators and information society. A data collection and evaluation system on Science and Technology Statistics, Information Society Statistics, Rural Development Statistics will be improved according to EU standards. Pilot surveys will be implemented on ICT usage, R&D, and Innovation Survey, consumer survey, competitiveness of manufacturing industry, Comparative Export Performance index and Rural Development Statistics. R&D statistics will be produced at regional level. New definitions of the rural area will be identified. Some selected statistical and economic indicators such as the core inflation, business cycle, consumer survey, economic sentiment index, competitiveness of manufacturing industry; comparative export performance index will be defined, improved and calculated. EU experts will work on methodological and procedural aspects of the subject matter activities. Surveys on ICT usage in business, households and government will be designed including questionnaire design and sampling; and an ICT Usage Database and data treatment will be established together with EU expert. 3.4.10: Improvement of National Accounts According to the Recommendation of ESA95 The project will strengthen the capacities to develop and implement methodologies to produce national accounts statistics on government finance statistics, household sector accounts, regional accounts, supply & use tables and input-output tables, gross capital formation, capital stock and consumption of fixed capital, financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheet, exhaustiveness of national accounts and estimation methods at constant prices as defined by ESA-95. Technical assistance will be provided by EU short term and local experts to evaluate the current situation and improve methodologies. Data sources will be analyzed and a report on the data sources is produced including recommendations for future work, e.g. the necessary adjustments to basic data. The actual final consumption of the household table will be estimated. The sources and calculation method used for household production accounts and household income generation accounts will be analyzed. All sources will be analyzed for the estimation of regional accounts and the reliability of existing basic data will be assessed. Regional GDP will be estimated by using mixed methods. Problems encountered in calculating regional accounts estimates will be solved and the results of the study analyzed. A final report will be prepared on regional accounts GDP for Turkey.

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Supply and use tables’ coverage according to ESA’95 and Eurostat Input-Output Manual, data availability and comparability in Turkey and EU countries will be assessed. The automation of the SUT and IOT compilation will be improved, allowing regular production/publication of these tables. The methodology of annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices will be improved. All sources will be analyzed for GCF, CS, CFC and calculation methods. Data on capital formation, stock and consumption will be improved. Expert will supply technical assistance for compilation methodology of financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheet for understanding the EU requirements. The impact of under-coverage and under-reporting will be estimated and national accounts with significantly improved exhaustiveness will be produced. A report will be produced on the project with a description covering all potential areas for non-exhaustiveness, their current situation, the latest adjustments, and further improvements needed. A report will be prepared on the project. The report will include a summary description of the methods used for constant price estimations of quarterly accounts and recommendations for future work. 3.4.11: Improvement of Information and Communication Technology The project will strengthen the statistical information systems by further improvements of the Information and Communication Technology Services (ICT) for central and regional offices. To achieve this aim the project aims to develop the ICT system in selected areas such as Data Architecture and Data Warehouse, Data and Information Security, Establishment of Archiving and Disaster Recovery Centre, Modernization of SIS Web Service and improvement of Regional and Central Offices ICT Infrastructure. A standard data architecture and its rules for all statistical production and dissemination processes of SIS will be implemented. An enterprise data warehouse following the data architecture and integrated with the metadata system will be implemented. The security policy of data and information will be implemented and security systems will be installed. With local expert support, the current system needs for data and information security will be determined, created and implemented. Together with an EU expert, a suitable place for an archiving and disaster recovery centre will be selected and necessary studies will be performed to establish an online connection between SIS and the Archiving and Disaster Recovery Centre. An Archiving and Disaster Recovery Centre will be established. Together with EU/local expert, a system analysis and determination of current web service needs will be analysed, a system for a new web site module will be designed and a pilot project of a new service will be created and implemented. The SIS Web Service will be modernised. An effective, fast, dynamic and user-friendly web service on the SIS portal will be established. Together with EU/local expert the current ICT infrastructure for Central and Regional offices (on a sample of 5 Regional Offices) will be analysed and a new system for centralisation of servers and improvement of ICT infrastructure will be designed and established. The ICT infrastructure for the Central and Regional Offices will be improved. Together with local expert, the technical specifications for hardware, software and communication equipments will be prepared.

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3.4.12: Multi Beneficiary Programme The project will build up capacities to participate in the Multi-Beneficiary Programs of Eurostat in the field of statistics to be informed about EU Member State developments. EU expertise will be provided to assist Turkish Statisticians in order to develop and improve methodologies on statistical areas selected by Eurostat. Pilot surveys will be carried out on selected areas. Turkish Statisticians will participate in the meetings organised for this programme. 3.4.13: Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS Provision will be made to improve the administrative structure of the SIS through supporting human resource management, statistical programming and design and planning for the regional re-restructuring. A programmed approach will be developed according to the requirements of the Turkish statistical system in its compliance process to EU standards. By the end of the project operational long-term, medium term and annual plans will be produced. EU expertise will be provided to assess the existing statistical programming process, to prepare a report covering recommendations on issues to be considered and improved and to prepare an outline the process of statistical programming. Local expertise will assess the current human resource planning and management strategies in SIS and will help to formulate job definitions, analysis and requirements for all the departments of SIS. EU/local expertise will be provided to evaluate the requirements of regional offices and to advice on restructuring. The tasks and responsibilities of regional offices will be re-defined. A report will be prepared by the EU/local experts on the training requirements of the staff in regional offices. SIS staff will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences, local meetings etc. and required equipment such as computers, laptops, printers, servers etc. will be purchased. 3.4.14: Project Implementation Team In order to guarantee efficient implementation of the project a project implementation team will be established to assure effective co-ordination of the programme and provide technical and administrative support for management. A Project Implementation Team will be established. Co-ordination of all components of the USST programme will be followed up. Administrative and financial follow up instruments and the overall budget of the USST 2 programme and its implementation system will be set up. All activities of the programme will be implemented in compliance with the acquis communautaire and following PRAG procurement rules. A Management Advisor will be provided to lead the Project Implementation Team (PIT). The Management Advisor will be assisted by a local expert and a secretary. A Senior

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Programme Officer (SPO) and Project Co-ordinator/s will be appointed to the PIT by SIS. 3.5 Linked Activities:

The main linked activity to this programme is Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey – Phase I. The programme consisted of the following components; Setting up of a business register system, Reform of the business statistics, their collection system and statistical units, Review and renovation of the IT system of the SIS, Reform of the agricultural statistics system, Upgrading of the regional statistical system, introduction of NUTS classification, data collection systems and a regional indicator database, Smaller projects as the household budget survey, social surveys and upgrading national accounts, etc., Improving dissemination of statistical data, Establishment of a classification server with links to other administrations, Participation in the Community Multi-Beneficiary Programme for Statistics, Capacity building and institutional strengthening.

SIS has also participated in the Phare Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001 for Statistics on 11 topics which are Social protection statistics, Income and living conditions, Financial indicators, Purchasing Power Parity, Innovation statistics, Short-term business statistics, Prodcom classification survey, Foreign affiliates trade statistics, Infra-annual economic statistics, Health and safety at work, Public health statistics under the USSTP_I.

Other linked activities of the programme are the MEDSTAT program. Priorities of MEDSTAT I, which will be implemented until 2003, are External Trade statistics, Tourism statistics, Transport statistics, Migration statistics, Environment statistics, National accounts statistics and Information System (Exchanges with the EU, Dissemination to other users). The new programme (MEDSTAT II) of which the implementation is currently postponed is scheduled to last until 2005. 3.6 Lessons learned:

The “Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey” (USST) co-operation programme is a technical assistance programme in statistics. Phase I of this programme (project number DG ELARG/MEDTQ/14-2001) which runs from 11th November 2002 until 31st December 2006, aims at developing a basic statistical infrastructure in the State Institute of Statistics (SIS) (business register, classifications, dissemination) and at producing statistical data for some selected areas such as national accounts, business statistics and social statistics. During the mission of Eurostat on 22-25 September 2003, the Eurostat Delegation evaluated USST Phase II proposals, put forward by the SIS Management and the SIS project leaders as submitted potential projects Fiches for Phase II. Eurostat indicated that proposals are good and clear in general. A few revisions of the initial drafts were suggested by focusing on specific objective, activities and outputs. Revised project descriptions were sent to Eurostat by the end of November 2003 as the final version of Phase II. Apart from above mentioned subjects, Eurostat suggested that, SIS should

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foresee its future needs regarding migration statistics and this should be also included within the final version of USST II.

The creation of an operation PIT has proved to be highly beneficial to the implementation of the Phase I but it absorbed a lot of work and therefore Eurostat , the EU Delegation and the SIS management insist that Phase II should be programmed in such a way that no gap between the two phases will occur, to keep the now trained and experience staff and to keep the impetus of improvement also in the departments. The inflexible time tables for major data collections showed that the time consuming PRAG procedures are not conducive to contracting data collection activities in line with such inflexible time tables. However no other possibility is viable. 4 Institutional Framework The main body of the Turkish Statistical System is the “State Institute of Statistics.” It has been empowered by Laws and Decrees, to collect, process, and publish official data in Turkey. Additionally, ministries, state economic enterprises, and other government institutions collect data related to their main function. The bulk of the statistical data in their field of activity is transmitted to the SIS for publishing. The SIS has been organised under the Office of the Prime Ministry. The top administrator of the institution is the President, who is responsible to the Prime Minister. Three Vice Presidents help the president in the management and co-ordination of the divisions of the SIS. The Supreme Statistical Council has been set up as a main advisory body within the Turkish Statistical System. During the Council’s sessions, participants contribute mainly to planning and co-ordination aspects and discuss problems faced by the statistical production in the country. Its decisions have no binding legal effects. The members of the Council are: State Planning Organisation, related Public Institutions, State Economic Enterprises, Universities, Commerce, Industry and Stock Exchange Chambers, Trade Unions, Production Unions, and representatives of Private Sector Institutions. It convenes at least once in two years. At the moment, it is not operational. With the new law, its functions will be strengthened. The current legal basis for the activities of the SIS is Law No. 53 of June 1962, together with Statutory Decree No. 219 of June 1984, as amended in 1989 by the Statutory Decrees No. 357 and 367. In the process of drafting a new Statistical Law, examples of Statistical Laws from Member States of the EU and from candidate countries, that recently changed their law, and the Eurostat document 'Pattern for a Statistical Law' were studied and taken into account. The new Statistical Law, which will replace the existing one, is in the legislative process. It was submitted to the Council of Ministers and after that, next step will be the approval by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The new law brings the legal basis of the Turkish Statistical System fully in line with the Statistics Act of the European Union. The most important aspects are to increase the co-ordinating role of the SIS visà vis other statistics producers in the system, to

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introduce multi-annual strategic planning, to strengthen the role of the Supreme Council, to improve the autonomy of the Institute, to guarantee equal and easy access to all statistical information and to regulate all aspects of statistical confidentiality. The new law will also align contradicting legislation in the field of statistics, such as the law on the Central Bank. For the implementation of the USST programmes a Steering Committee (SC) consisting of Eurostat, the EU Representation, SIS and the main providers of official statistics in Turkey has been established. The SC receives and comments all work plans and reports on the implementation of the programmes. The SC acts as adviser and arbitrator if any difficulties in programme implementation are encountered. Appropriate reporting from SC meetings are established and disseminated by the Project Implementation Team. The SC will meet at least twice per year and will be chaired by the President of the SIS. The implementation of the project will be secured by the SIS in Turkey. A Project Implementation Team (PIT) consisting of SIS personnel and TA staff will be responsible for the management and co-ordination of the programme as well as monitoring and reporting during the implementation phase. The Turkish senior programme officer (SPO) who is nominated by SIS, the SIS project co-ordinators, an EU long-term management advisor, a secretary of the team and an assistant of the long-term management advisor will form the Project Implementation Team (PIT). This team is responsible for the proper execution of the programme. In case of major divergences within the PIT, the Steering Committee will decide. Except for the SPO and the project co-ordinator, fees and salaries of the PIT are paid by the Programme. The PIT is essential for the further implementation of the programme. Therefore all necessary steps shall be taken to anticipate and accelerate its establishment prior to other implementation steps. The Contracting Authority will be the Central Financing and Contracting Unit (CFCU) under the responsibility of the Programme Authorising Officer (PAO) which will be in charge of carrying out all tendering, contracting and financing procedures related with the implementation of the programme. The State Institute of Statistics as the main beneficiary will principally be responsible for the overall management of the Programme. Regarding “Component 11: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data” the Ministry of Health will contribute as a beneficiary. Besides, the activities in this project imply the need for close co-ordination and co-operation and good lines of communication with and between the many actors involved especially a number of ministries and other institutions.

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5 Detailed Budget (EURO) Phare/Pre-

Accession Instrument support

Co-financing

Total Cost

€

National Public Funds(*)

Other Sources (**)

Total Co-financing of Project

Year 2005 - Investment supportjointly co funded

Procurement of Hardware and Software

2.625.750 875. 550 0 875.550 3.501.300

Investment support – sub-total

2.625.750

875.550 0 875.550 3.501.300

% of total public funds max 75 % min 25 %

Year 2005 InstitutionBuilding support

Providing Technical Assistance

3.250.000 0 0 0 3.250.000

Providing Data Collection Service

2.386.000 0 0 0 2.386.000

Organising and participatingTraining Activities

1.750.000 0 0 0 1.750.000

Providing TechnicaAssistance from MultBeneficiary Program

350.000 0 0 0 350.000

IB support

7.736.000 0 0 0 7.736.000

Total project 2005

10.361.750 875.550 0 875.550 11.237.300

indicative Year 2006 Investment support

indicative Year 2006 IB support

Total (indicative) project2006

(*) contributions form National, Regional, Local, Municipal authorities, FIs loans to public entities, funds from public enterprises (**) private funds, FIs loans to private entities

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1. All investment sub-projects supported by the pre-accession fund must receive co-financing from national public funds. Minimum requirement for co-financing from national public funds is 25% of the combined PHARE and national contributions to the overall investment support.

2. Many Institution building projects will also have a degree of co-financing – this should be quantified and included wherever possible.

3. Expenditure related to equipment (regulatory infrastructure or ESC- related) and to Technical Assistance supporting investment (e.g. pre feasibility study / supervision of works / technical specifications) should be considered as Investment support in the project fiche.

4. All co-financing must be provided on a joint basis. Parallel co-financing will, in a principle, not be accepted. Exceptions to this rule have to be agreed with the Commission in advance.

5. All co-financing should be clearly quantified, also the degree of certainty of such co financing (i.e. for National Public Funds: is it already earmarked in local or national budget, for FIs Loans, private funds: are they already approved/ under appraisal, etc..).

6. Where parallel co financing is accepted and justified per exception to the normal rule it should be provided in monetary form. If this is not possible there should be clear criteria set out for the valuation of any non-monetary contributions (that should be quantified in the table)

7. If twinning is involved, clearly state the expected budget of the twinning covenant

8. The financial engineering of the project should be closely monitored against actual delivery during implementation and against the objectives that were set in the project fiche so that corrective actions may be taken where required.

6 Implementation Arrangements 6.1 Implementing Agency The Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU) will be the implementing agency and will be responsible for all procedural aspects of the tendering process, contracting matters and financial management, including the payment of project activities. The Director of the CFCU will act as PAO of the project. His contact details are:

Mr. Nuri Ercan Tortop Programme Authorising Officer Central Finance and Contracts Unit Tel: +90 312 472 37 00 Fax: +90 312 472 37 44 E-mail: [email protected] 6.2 Twinning

mailto:[email protected]

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Not applicable 6.3 Non- standard aspects The Practical Guide to Contract Procedures in the context of External Actions will be strictly followed. Multi-Beneficiary programmes (contract 5) Eurostat prepares and launches the Multi- Beneficiary Programmes for Phare countries. These programmes aim at improving the methodologies and upgrading the statistics of Phare countries on priority areas. As Turkey is not included in the Phare programme, a budget has been allocated for a direct contract to be concluded with the firm that is awarded the Phare contract, and on the same terms (unit costs). SIS will select the pilot projects (with the assistance of Eurostat) in which it will participate and sign direct contract with the awarded company. Grant to SIS for Training (contract 4) The experts provided through the above mentioned Service Contract generally direct SIS staff to relevant training courses organized by multi-national institutions throughout Europe. Also, Eurostat itself organizes about 300 meetings in a year in the form of working parties, working groups and workshops and requests Turkey’s representation in these activities. Moreover, this grant is requested in order to facilitate the participation Turkish statisticians to the study visits organised in the EU member states’ statistical offices. Since, in line with the Financial Regulation firms executing the Service Contract are not allowed to pay per-diems to the Beneficiary Institutions staff, a direct-award grant to SIS (analogous to direct-award grants made by Eurostat in Phare beneficiary countries) is required to realize these training activities and study visits which are at vital importance for harmonisation of Turkish statistical system to that of the EU. 6.4 Contracts Under this project five contracts are planned:

Contracts Value (€) Contract 1: Service Contract For Technical Assistance**

3.250.000

Contract 2:Supply Contract For Hardware, software and office equipment*

3.501.300

Contract 3: Service Contract for Data Collection**

2.386.000

Contract 4: Direct Grant Agreement for Training

1.750.000

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Contract 5: Direct Contract for Multi Beneficiary Program

350.000

*The details of the equipments are presented in Annex 8. The tentative distribution of the equipments between the departments in SIS was ensured. **SIS staff or other workers of public administration will not be remunerated under these contracts. 7 Implementation Schedule Start of

tendering/grant signature

Start of project activity

Project completion

Contract 1: Service Tender For Technical Assistance

May 2006 January 2007 November 2008

Contract 2: Supply Tender for Hardware, software and office equipment

July 2006 January 2007 November 2008

Contract 3: Service Contract for Data Collection

May 2006 January 2007 November 2008

Contract 4: Direct Grant Agreement for Training

September 2006

January 2007 November 2008

Contract 5: Direct Service Contracts for Multi Beneficiary Program

* * *

* The timing for these contracts depends on Eurostat’s tendering agenda. 8 Equal Opportunity The project will comply with the European Commission’s equal opportunity policy. 9 Environment The programme will not have any adverse environmental impacts, other than those due to normal activities. 10 Rates of return Not applicable for the programme. 11 Investment criteria 11.1 Catalytic effect The project will provide a continued impetus for the further upgrading of the statistical system in Turkey and its harmonisation with EU statistical standards which is one of the priorities set out in the Accession Partnership and the National Programme. The catalytic effect is to improve the capacity of the Turkish statistical system by providing technical assistance and required investments. The EU support for this project will increase the pace of accession-driven actions in the field of statistics and this will

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directly improve and upgrade the statistical system according to EU standards. Without EU support, this project will take place at a later date and will last longer. 11.2 Co-financing The Turkish Government will provide 875.325 € co-financing. 11.3 Additionally This programme will not substitute other sources of funding from other public or private sector sources. 11.4 Project readiness and size The project descriptions for the service tender component are ready. Technical specifications of the supply tender will be prepared before tendering because during the USST Phase I requirements will be analysed by experts. 11.5 Sustainability SIS, the main body of the Turkish Statistical System, has the capacity to absorb and sustain the investments proposed within this project. The operating and maintenance costs of the equipment purchased under this project will be provided by SIS. The investment will not have adverse effects on the environment and is financially sustainable. 11.6 Compliance with state aids provisions Investments will respect the state aid provisions. 12 Conditionality and sequencing Due to the substantial enumeration costs carried by the SIS pilot survey activities depend upon the appropriate dedicated national budget in 2006, 2007 and 2008 for financing the preparation and conducting of the surveys. Agreement on operational cooperation in data collection and statistical processing and the respective distribution of tasks must be reached with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Interior Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Security and Ministry of Health, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources Turkish Electricity Distribution Corporation, General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs, Turkish Coal Enterprise, Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise and General Directorate of Mining Affairs before activities in the corresponding sectors can begin. The establishment of the statistical business registers constitutes a prerequisite for the compliance process in business statistics. Agreement on the Agricultural Statistical System between SIS and other administrations concerned is given. Proper co-ordination has to be ensured with activities financed by MEDSTAT and with EUROSTAT's Multi-Beneficiary Programme.

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ANNEXES TO PROJECT FICHE Annex 1. Logframe in standard format Annex 2. Detailed implementation chart Annex 3. Contracting and disbursement schedule, by quarter, for full duration of

project (including disbursement period) Annex 4. For all projects: reference list of feasibility/pre-feasibility studies, in

depth ex ante evaluations or other forms of preparatory work. Annex 5. Reference list of relevant laws and regulations Annex 6. Reference list of relevant strategic plans and studies (may include

institution sector strategies, development plans, business development plans, etc)

Annex 7. Pre-studies related to specific statistical areas* Annex 8. Details of the equipments planned to be tendered under supply contract* Annex 9. Detailed project fiches for each component*

* Annex 7, 8 and 9 are prepared by SIS in order to provide detailed and explanatory information on the project to the evaluators.

Annex 1

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Title of the project:

Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey PHASE II Country: Turkey Institution: State Institute of Statistics (SIS)

Indicative duration: 24 Months

Indicative budget: 11.2 Million €

Date of preparation: March 2005

Logical intervention Indicators of achievement Source of verification Assumptions and risks

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Overall objective of the programme: To upgrade the Statistical System of Turkey in order to provide adequate data and analysis for the purposes of facilitating policy decisions towards implementation of the pre-accession strategy and the adoption of the Acquis.

Compliance with Acquis Communautaire;

Necessary data available for the accession process,

Strengthened institutional capacity and higher efficiency within the institutional frames, Improved co-operation and co-ordination between the SIS and other administrative units, an increased know-how level and professional skills of SIS staff on statistical standard methods, on indicators and on information of the EU

Periodical review, assessment and reporting including independent monitoring and evaluation;

Eurostat assessment in collaboration with other services of the European Commission;

Progress reports;

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Project Purpose

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To upgrade the Statistical System of Turkey, according to EU standards on the methodology and quality of compiling and processing statistical information and to ensure the efficient coordination by the State Institute of Statistics (SIS).

The BR system fulfils basic requirements of the system.

The New Social and Demographic System has been defined and has been implemented to a great extend.

Raw data of LFS is transmitted to Eurosta.tLabour Cost Index has been developed. Modular survey results has been received.Questionnaire for the new census system is available.

Compliant data are available on Inbound and Outbound Tourism Statistics. Compliant data on structure of Tourism are available for the satellite accounts. Data collection procedures on accommodation statistics are compliant with EU.

Comparability and regularity has been achieved on business statistics.The methodology for using administrative sources in producing business statistics for units under the defined threshold is developed according to EU requirements. Methodology for energy statistics is adapted and pilot survey results have been received and published.

Updated and translated classifications in the server are available.

The Agricultural Statistical System has been evaluated and has been implemented to a great extend for the future needs. The methodology in land use / cover statistics is adapted and compliant data are available in a selected region of Turkey. Data is available pre-accession process.

The regional GDP data are estimated. The methodology and data sources for GG accounts are improved. The framework of SAM is set up according to EU requirements and standards.

ICT Usage databases are developed.R&D and Innovation data is produced at NUTS II level. Regional Quality Report is prepared. Rural Development Statistics are developed.Consumer confidence index, Leading indicators index, Core inflation for Turkey have been calculatedSeasonal adjustment analysis have been done.Indicators of competitiveness of manufacturing industry in EU market, have been defined.

Environmental Statistics System is improved. Compliant data are available.

Survey results,

Project report;

Evaluation reports

Data sent to Eurostat

Publication

Databases

Progress report

ICT strategy plan

ICT department progress reports;

A harmonised Statistical Business Register compliant with EU requirements has been established in USST Phase I. Agreement with the Ministry of Finance must be given.

Agreement with Ministry of Interior Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Security and Ministry of Health must be given.

Agreement with Ministry of Tourism must be given.

The establishment of the statistical BR constitutes a prerequisite for the compliance process in business statistics. The quality of the register will have considerable impacts of the quality of business statistics.

Agreement with Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources must be given and also close relationships with Turkish Electricity Distribution Corporation, General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs,

Turkish Coal Enterprise, Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise, General Directorate of Mining Affairs must be established.

Agreement on the Agricultural Statistical System between SIS and other administrations concerned is given.

Proper co-ordination has to be ensured with activities financed by MEDSTAT and Multi-Beneficiary Programme.

Agreement on the National Accounts System between SIS and other administrations concerned is given.

SIS and ICT Management will accept sharing the responsibility for ICT strategy / policies formulation and execution.

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A centralised data entry system has been established. An archiving and disaster recovery centre has been arranged. An integrated data infrastructure and institutional data management has been ensured. Effective, fast, dynamic and user-friendly web service has been established.

Compliant data on selected areas of health statistics are available.

Strengthened institutional capacity and higher efficiency within the institutional frames, an increased know-how level and knowledge of SIS staff on statistical standard methods, on indicators and on information of the EU.

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Project Results

1) The process of compiling, evaluating and publishing statistical data has been upgraded according to EU standards, procedures and regulations for selected sectors:

• Business Register System

• Social and demographic statistics

• Tourism statistics

• Business statistics

• Agricultural statistics system

• Environmental statistics capacity

• Health Statistics

The concept of the contents, structure, set up and maintenance for Enterprise Groups

Register database

Updated internet facilities for the future

Approved register Regulation proposal

The New Social and Demographic System.

Labour Cost Index

Questionnaire for the new census system

Inbound and Outbound Tourism Statistics

Determined concept of the contents, structure for Employment in tourism statistics

Tourism data for the satellite accounts.

Implementation of Pilot Survey fro domestic tourism

Availability and comparability of structural business statistics on FATS, Business Service Statistics and transportation

Density indicators in residences, industry and transportation sector

Extended the coverage on electricity and gas prices

Statistical units concerned

Project reports

Databases

Publication

Survey results

Evaluation reports


SIS web pages

Agreement with the Ministry of Finance

to transfer the records to the SIS was given.

Agreement with Ministry of Interior Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Security and Ministry of Health must be given.

Agreement with Ministry of Tourism must be given.

Agreement on the Agricultural Statistical System between SIS and other administrations concerned is given.

Ministry of Health and other social security institutions have very important role in the health statistics system. They should involve in all activities during implementation.

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The pilot survey in compliance with EU requirements

Supply balance sheets for crops, milk and meat

Reliable yield quantities for certain crops used for checking production data

Pilot survey of Economic Accounts for Agriculture

A centralised statistical system in the ministry connected with its regional directorates

SGM coefficients

Classified holdings by their typology

The Agri-Environmental indicators

The results of pilot survey for farm structure results are in compliance with EU requirements An action plan for environmental data collection Sample survey designed to collect representative data for each environmental sector Environmental expenditure accounting according to SERIEE framework Reports of available information by considering geographical dimension Meta data catalogue The data for users on environmental statistics

Availability of health statistics ratio is increased Occupational Accidents Statistics

Occupational Diseases Statistics

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2) The quality and management of the Statistical System has been improved and harmonised according to EU standards by:

• Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS

• Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis

• Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of ESA95

• Improvement of information and communication technology

• Multi Beneficiary Programme

Classifications in Turkish

Additional National codes

ICT Usage database

R&D data

Regional Quality Report

Consumer confidence index

Leading indicators index

Measurement of core inflation for Turkey

Seasonal adjustment analysis

Indicators of competitiveness of manufacturing industry in EU market

GDP

Classification server

Internet

Progress report

Project reports

Publication

Evaluation reports


Classification server should be ready.

Agreement on the National Accounts System between SIS and other administrations concerned is given.

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Standard data architecture A metadata system An enterprise data warehouse Data mining applications on enterprise level. Improved the processes for data collection and data entry Data standardisation and accuracy A centralised data entry application Implemented the security policy of SIS Online opportunities for regional offices to increase the training quality Dynamic database over one server instead of distributed servers Reliable and expandable cluster server Minimisation of maintenance and administrative costs for server and thin client. HRM and Survey management system for central and regional organisations. Very effective, fast, dynamic and user-friendly web service Increased knowledge on selected areas Gained experiences in practical problems

3) The capacity to manage upgrading the Statistical System and to efficiently implement the project will be guaranteed by:

• Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS

• Project Implementation Team

Well-organised program completely in accordance with Commissions rules

Annual plans

Monthly plans

Financial reports

Technical reports

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Project Activities Specific means Indicative cost

1: Improvement of Business Register System by Studying on Enterprise Groups

• Clarification of the statistical units within the Enterprise

Group. • The design and preparation of survey documents. • Preparation of the internet application software for further

studies on Enterprise Groups. • Implementation of the Enterprise Group Survey • Updating of the prepared Turkish Business Register

Regulation. • Design of questionnaires and preparation of required

software on Business Demography. • Implemantation of business demeography survey. • Participation in training courses, study visits, working

parties, conferences, local meetings etc. • Procurement of equipment such as computer, laptop,

printers, server etc

-EU short-term, (3 man month); -Local expert, (8 man month); Data collection cost; Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

88.500 €; 56.000 €; 422.000 €; 46.140 € ; 193.000 € ; 805.640 € (TOTAL COST)

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2: Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data • Conducting the modular surveys together with LFS and

transmission of raw data, • Establishment of Labor Cost Index, • Development of population and housing census system

and implementation of a pilot census, • Establishment of data collection system on immigration

and asylum statistics and implementation of a pilot survey,

• Development of usage of administrative registers, • Improvement of survey methodology for the statistics on

income and living conditions. • Identification of the non-government organisations

satisfying social protection by a survey. • Adoption of revised ESSPROS Manual.

• Creation of a database for social protection statistics. • Design and implementation of a pilot survey for

continuing vocational training survey. • Realisation of field study of the structure of earnings

survey. • Preparation of quality report. • Participation in training courses, study visits, working

parties, conferences, local meetings etc. • Procurement of equipment such as computer, laptop,

printers, server etc

-EU short-term, ( 9.5 man month); -Local expert, ( 10.5 man month); Data collection cost; Supply of specified equipment; Coverage of fees and travel costs;

231.500 €; 73.500 €; 114.000 € ; 112.500 € ; 113.100 € ; 644.600 € (TOTAL COST)

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3: Improvement of Tourism Statistics

• Assessment of the current situation in tourism statistics. • Preparation of the methodology, questionnaire and

sample design for domestic tourism. • Implementation of domestic tourism pilot survey. • Preparation of methodology and questionnaire for

accommodation statistics and employment statistics on tourism

• Improvement of methodology and coverage for both inbound and outbound tourism statistics.

• Set up of the system of Tourism Satellite Accounts. • Participation in training courses, meetings, working

parties and study visits. • Procurement of equipment.

EU short-term, (4 man month); Data collection cost; Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

110.500 € 105.000 € 29.850 € ; 18.000 €;

263.350 € (TOTAL COST)

4: Improving the Business Statistics • Improving methodology, data collection and evaluation

system on Business Statistics particularly FATS, Business Service Statistics and Transport Statistics.

• Preparation and implementation of pilot survey for FATS and Business Service Statistics.

• Analysing the sources for business statistics and improvement of the usage of the sources.

• Analysing the quality concepts of short-term statistics and Prodcom.

• Improvement of transport statistics on maritime and air transportationFormulation of pilot survey on carriage of goods by road.

• Reformation of energy statistics through adoption of the methodology, design of new questionnaires and realisation of harmonisation of NACE Rev.1.1.

• Participation of SIS staff in training, study visits, working parties, conferences etc.

• Procurement of equipment (Computer, server, laptop etc.)

EU short-term, ( 11.5 man month); Local expert, ( 8.5 man month); Data collection cost; Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

275.500 €; 59.500 €; 415.000 €); 195.630 € ; 141.000 € ;

1.086.680 € (TOTAL COST)

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5: Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System • Improvement of methodologies for milk, meat and egg

statistics. • Implementation of pilot surveys for milk, meat and egg

statistics. • Develeopment of economic agricultural accounts.

Implementation of a regional test survey • Development of the methodology for crop statistics and

crop losses. • Implementation of a pilot survey for crop losses. • Development of forestry statistics. • Establishment of a centralised statistical system in the

Ministry of Environment and Forestry connected with its regional directorates for providing updated data.

• Preparation of the methodology for SGM and typology of agricultural holdings.

• Implementation of field survey in the selected region. • Participation of SIS staff in training, study visits, working

parties, conferences etc. • Procurement of equipment.

EU short-term, (9 man month); Local Expert, ( 6 man month); Data collection cost; Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

220.500 € 42.000 €; 780.000 €) 90.480 € ; 103.500 € ; 1.236.480 € (TOTAL COST)

6: Enhancement of environmental statistics capacity • Studying the application of European Waste Catalogue,

SEEA tables in physical means, SERIEE framework, IPCC Guidelines and CORINAIR methodology ,

• Analaysing the Metadata of waste variables, water and wastewater variables, environmental variables, air emissions variables and environmental expenditure variables.

• Implementation of pilot surveys • Establishment of environmental database • Participation in training courses, study visits, workshops,

working parties • Procurement of software and equipment

EU short-term Expert, (5 man month); Local Expert, (4 man month); Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

132.500 €; 28.000 €; 60.000 € ; 27.500 € ; 248.000 € (TOTAL COST)

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7: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data • Establishment of a committee to examine notification

forms. • Application of a pilot study for testing new statistical

forms and data collection system. • Providing consultancy on health statistics legislation

to Ministry of Health. • Analysing the current system of occupational

accidents and occupational statistics. • Application of pilot study. • Determination of a road map for reaching the full

implementation of European Statistics on Accident at Work and European Statistics on Occupational Diseases.

• Participation in training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties

• Procurement of software and equipment

EU short-term Expert, (4.5 man month); Local Expert, (2 man month); Data Collection Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

121.500 €; 14.000 €; 450.000 182.800 € ; 163.800 € ;


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8: Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS • Translation of the classifications that will be revised in

2007. • Translation of existing classifications. • Revision of logical and physical design, and programmes

of the Classification Server of SIS. • Updating the database of SIS’s Classification Server for

classifications and standards that are revised in 2007. • Conversion works of revised EU and International

Classifications into national classifications. • Participation of SIS staff in training, study visits, working

parties, conferences etc.

EU short-term, ( 1 man month); Local expert, ( 2 man month); Coverage of fees and travel costs;

44.000 €; 14.000 €; 43.900 € ;


9: Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis • Design and implementation of pilot surveys on ICT

Usage, R&D, and Innovation Survey, consumer survey, competitiveness of manufacturing industry, Comparative Export Performance index and Rural Development Statistics.

• Definition and improvement of some selected statistical and economic indicators such as the core inflation, business cycle, consumer survey, competitiveness of manufacturing industry; comparative export performance index.

• Establishment of database and data treatment • Calculating R&D data by GBOARD method. • Revising R&D and Innovation Survey • Preparation of the quality report for regional statistics. • Identification of the rural area concept • Participation in training courses, study visits, workshops,


EU short-term Expert, ( 8 man month); Local Expert, (9 man month); Data collection cost; Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

198.500 €; 63.000 €; 100.000 € ; 140.000 € ; 60.000 € ;


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10: Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of ESA95

• Analysis and assessment of all sources for regional

estimates of GDP, SUT/IOT, SAM, HH and GG • Estimation of actual final consumption of household table • Estimation of regional GDP using mixed method. • Improvement of methodology of annual supply and use

tables at current and constant prices • Preparation of draft regional SUT/IOT. • Setting up general framework for SAM • Receiving technical assistance for compilation

methodology of financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheet.

• Estimation of impact of under-coverage and under-reporting

• Production of national accounts with significantly improved exhaustiveness

• Establishment of HH production accounts and income generation accounts.

• Working on the official records of government revenue and expenditure.

• Establishment of GG accounts. • Participation of training courses, working parties,

seminars and study visits in abroad. • Procurement of equipment.

EU short-term Expert, (9 man month); Local Expert, ( 10 man month); Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment

220.500 €; 70.000 € ; 166.320 € ; 73.000 € ;


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11: Improvement of information and communication Technology • Establishment of data warehouse. • Determination of current system needs in data and

information security • Creation of data and information security policy • Selection of a suitable place for an archiving and

disaster recovery center • Establishment of archiving and disaster recovery centre • Determination of current web service needs • Modernisation of web service • Analysing the current ICT infrastructure for central and

regional offices (on a sample of 5 regional office) • Design and establishment of a new system for

centralisation of servers (on a sample of 5 regional office)

• Improvement of regional offices’ ICT infrastructure • Participation in training courses, study visits, workshops,


EU short-term Expert, (5.5 man month); Local Expert, (14 man month); Coverage of fees and travel costs; Supply of specified equipment;

143.500 €; 98.000 €; 62.230 € ; 2.609.000 € ;

2.912.730 € (TOTAL COST)

12: Multi Beneficiary Programme • Participation in existing multi-beneficiary programs for

statistics. • Implementation of pilot surveys on selected areas. • Participation in the meetings which are in the multi

country list prepared by Eurostat.

EU short-term Expert

Coverage of fees and travel costs;

350.000 € ;

500.000 € ;


13 : Project Implementation Team • Technical and administrative support of all components

of the programme

Long –term expert (24 man/month)

Local assistant and local secretary (48 man/month)

528.000 €

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14: Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS • Assessment of the existing statistical programming

process and preparation of an outline for the process of statistical programming.

• Assessment of the current human resource planning and management strategies in SIS and forming the job definitions, analysis and requirements for all the departments of SIS.

• Evaluation of the requirements of regional offices and to advise on restructuring.

• Re-definition of the tasks and responsibilities of regional offices

• Determining training requirements of the staff in regional offices.

• Participation in training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties

EU short-term Expert, (1.75 man month); Local Expert, (6 man month); Coverage of fees and travel costs;

38.500 €; 42.000 €; 120.000 € ;


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Annex 2: Detailed Implementation ChartProgramme: Upgrading the Statistical System of TurkeyYear

Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Service Contract forTechnical Assistance

F F F C C C C C C C C I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ISupply Contract For Hardware and software

F F F C C C C C C I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IService Contract for Data Collection

F F F C C C C C C C C I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IDirect Grant Agreement for Training

C C C C I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IDirect Contract for Multy Beneficiary Program *

* Timetable of this contract depends on EUROSTAT

F : ForecastC : ContractI : Implementation

20072006 2008

2006 2009

ContractedQ4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Check

Service Contract forTechnical Assistance3.250.000

Supply Contract For Hardware and software3.501.300

Service Contract for Data Collection2.386.000

Direct Grant Agreement for Training1.750.000

Direct Contract for Multy Beneficiary Program * 350.000

Cumulated 10.887.300 350.000 - - - - - - - - 11.237.300

Disbursed

Service Contract forTechnical Assistance1.625.000 1.625.000

Supply Contract For Hardware and software 2.100.780 1.400.520

Service Contract for Data Collection1.193.000 1.193.000

Direct Grant Agreement for Training875.000 875.000

Direct Contract for Multy Beneficiary Program * 280.000 70.000

Cumulated 2.500.000 3.293.780 280.000 - 3.900.520 1.193.000 70.000 - - - 11.237.300

* Disbursement and commitment plan for this item depens on Eurostat agenda

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Annex 3:Contracting and Disbursement shedule (in Euro)Programme: Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey

Annex 4: For All Projects: Reference List of Feasibility/Pre- Feasibility Studies, Indepth Ex-ante Evaluations or Other Forms of Preparatory Work State Institute of Statistics (SIS) have planned to prepare a feasibility study on the ICT infrastructure of the SIS. This study will be carried out with the assistance of consultant in USST Phase I. For the investment of ICT infrastructure in USST Phase II SIS have rouphly determine the future needs.

Annex 5: Reference List of Relevant Laws and Regulations Component 1: Improvement of Business Registers System 1) Council Regulation No 2186/93 on building up of business registers for statistical

purposes.

2) Council Regulation No 696/93 on the statistical standards applicable to the identification of units in order to make comparable information available to enterprises, financial institutions, governments and all other operators in the internal market.

Component 2: Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data. 1) Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample

survey in the Community.

2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1575/2000 of 19 July 2000 implementing the Council Regulation No 577/98 on the organization of a labour force sample survey in the Community concerning the codification to be used for data transmission from 2001 onwards.

3) Council Regulation No: 311/76of 2/9/76: OJ: L039 of 2/14/76, Compilation of Statistics on foreign workers.

4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 28/2004 of 5 January 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the detailed content of intermediate and final quality reports Official Journal L 005 , 09/01/2004 P. 0042 - 0056

5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 16/2004 of 6 January 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the list of target secondary variables relating to the "intergenerational transmission of poverty" Official Journal L 004 , 08/01/2004 P. 0003 – 0006

6) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 of 21 October 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards definitions and updated definitions (Text with EEA relevance.) Official Journal L 298 , 17/11/2003 P. 0001 - 0022

7) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1981/2003 of 21 October 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the fieldwork aspects and the imputation procedures (Text with EEA relevance.) Official Journal L 298 , 17/11/2003 P. 0023 – 0028

8) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2003 of 21 October 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the sampling and tracing rules (Text with EEA relevance.) Official Journal L 298 , 17/11/2003 P. 0029 – 0033

9) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1983/2003 of 7 November 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the list of target primary variables (Text with EEA relevance.) Official Journal L 298 , 17/11/2003 P. 0034 - 0085

10) Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2003 concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) Official Journal L 165 , 03/07/2003 P. 0001 - 0009

11) Working group of 1996 Agreement of 1996 ESSPROS Manual 1996

12) Council Resolution of 5 December 1994 on the quality and attractiveness of vocational education and training Official Journal C 374 , 30/12/1994 P. 0001 - 0004

13) Council Decision of 26 April 1999 establishing the second phase of the Community vocational training action programme 'Leonardo da Vinci' Official Journal L 146 , 11/06/1999 P. 0033 - 0047

14) Council Regulation (EC) No 2744/95 of 27 November 1995 on statistics on the structure and distribution of earnings Official Journal L 287 , 30/11/1995 p. 0003 - 0006

15) Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs Official Journal L 063 , 12/03/1999 P. 0006 – 0010

16) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1726/1999 of 27 July 1999 Implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on labour costs Official Journal L 203 , 03/08/1999 P. 0028 - 0040

17) Commission Regulation (EC) No 452/2000 of 28 February 2000 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards quality evaluation on labour costs statistics (Text with EEA relevance) Official Journal L 055 , 29/02/2000 P. 0053 - 0058

18) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000 on implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on structure of earnings (Text with EEA relevance) Official Journal L 229 , 09/09/2000 P. 0003 - 0013

19) Commission Regulation (EC) No 72/2002 of 16 January 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 as regards quality evaluation of structural

statistics on earnings (Text with EEA relevance) Official Journal L 015 , 17/01/2002 P. 0007 - 0013

Component 3: Improvement of Tourism Statistics

1) Directive Council No: 95/57 of 11/23/95: OJ: L291 of 12/6/95, Collection of statistical information in the field of tourism

2) Decision Commission No: 1999/35/EC of 12/9/98: OJ: L9 of 1/15/99, Procedures for implementing Council Directive 95/57/EC on the colection of Statistical information in the field of tourism

Component 4: Improving the Business Statistics 1) Draft Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on

Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates

2) Council Regulation (EEC) No. 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical unit for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community.

3) Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air

4) Council Directive 95/64/EC 08.12.1995 on the statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea

5) Decision Commission No. 98/358 of 5/13/98: OJ L174 of 6/18/98, Rules for implementing Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods and passengers by sea

6) Decision Commission No. 363/2000 of 4/28/00: OJ L312 of 6/5/00, on rules for implementing Council Directive 95/64/EC, statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods and passengers by sea.

7) Council Regulation No 1172/98/EC on statistics on the carriage of goods by road.

8) Directive Council No: 90/377/EEC of 29.06.1990: OJ: L185 of 17.07.1990, Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users.

9) Agreement: Member States and Norway of 17.07.1990 of 17.07.1990, for submission of domestic gas and electricity prices.

10) Council Directive No: 96/92/EC of 19 /12/96: OJ: L027 of 30 /01/ 97, concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity

11) Commission Regulation No. 2691/99 of 12/17/99: OJ: L326 of 12/18/99, Rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No. 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road.

Component 5: Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS 1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2002 of 19 December 2001 amending

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community.

2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1264/98 of 17 June 1998 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature.

3) Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 of 29 October 1993 on the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) in the European Economic Community.

4) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 761/93 of 24 March 1993 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community.

5) Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 of 19 December 1991 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production.

6) Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production.

Component 6: Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System. 1) Council Directive No: 96/16/EC of 19/03/96: OJ: L078 of 28/03/96,

statistical surveys of milk and milk products.

2) Commission Decision No: 97/80/EC of 18/12/96: OJ: L024 of 25/01/97, implementation of Council Dir. 96/16 on statistical surveys of milk and milk products.

3) Commission Decision No: 98/325/EC of 24/04/98: OJ: L142 of 14/05/98, on the 1998 work program relating to the protein content of the main milk products.

4) Council Decision No: 98/582/EC of 06/10/98: OJ: L281 of 17/10/98, amending Commission Decision 97/80/EC laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products.

5) Commission Decision No: 309/1999/EC of 23/04/99: OJ: L119 of 07/05/99, on the 1999 work programme relating to the protein content of the milk products.

6) Parliament and Council Directive No: 2003/107/EC of 05/12/03: OJ: L7 of 13/01/04, amending Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products.

7) Council Regulation No: 2782/75/EEC of 29/10/75: OJ: L282 of 01/11/75, production an marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks.

8) Council Regulation No: 2916/95/EC of 21/12/94: OJ: L305 of 19/12/95, concerning the common organization of the markets in poultry meat and eggs and the common system of trade for ovalbumin and lactalbumin.

9) Council Directive No: 93/24/EEC of 01/06/93: OJ: L149 of 21/06/93, statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine animal production, Directive as amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.

10) Council Directive No: 93/25/EEC of 01/06/93: OJ: L149 of 21/06/93, statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks, Directive as amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.

11) Commission Decision No: 2003/597/EC of 04/08/03: OJ: L203 of 12/08/03, laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on sheep and goat population and production.

12) Council Regulation No: 837/90/EEC of 26/03/90: OJ: L088 of 03/04/90, concerning statistical information to be supplied by the member states on cereals production.

13) Council Regulation No: 959/93/EEC of 05/04/93: OJ: L098 of 24/04/93, concerning statistical information to be supplied by member states on crop products other than cereals.

14) Commission Regulation No: 2197/95/EC of 18/09/95: OJ: L221 of 19/09/95, and No 296/20003/EC of 17.02.03: OJ. L43 of 18.02.03, amending the annexes to Council Regulations 837/90 and 959/93 concerning statistics to be supplied by the Member States on cereal production and 959/93 concerning statistical information to be supplied by Member States on crop products other then cereals.

15) Council Regulation No: 3528/86 of 17/11/86: OJ: L326 of 21/11/86, on the protection of the Community's forests against atmospheric pollution. Council Regulation No: 1615/89/EEC of 29/05/89: OJ: L165 of 15/06/89, establishing European forestry information and communication system (efics).

16) Council Regulation No: 2158/92 of 23/07/92: OJ: L217 of 30/07/92, on protection of the Community's forests against fire. Council Resolution of 15/12/98: OJ: C056 of 26/02/99, on a forestry strategy for the European Union.

17) Parliament and Council Regulation No: 138/2004/EC of 05/12/03: OJ: L33 of 05/02/04, on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community.

Component 7: Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of ESA95 1) Council Regulation (EC) No 3605/93 amended by Council Regulation 475/2000

on the application of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure obliges Member States to notify their government debt and deficits in accordance with the ESA methodology.

2) Commission Regulation 264/2000 requires data on taxes, social contributions and social benefits other than social transfers in kind on a quarterly basis from Member States.

3) Council Regulation No: 2223/96 of 6/25/96: OJ: L310 of 11/30/96 “European system of national accounts ESA 95”

4) Council Regulation No: 2223/96 of 6/25/96: OJ: L310 of 11/30/96, European System of National and Regional Accounts in the Community (ESA 95).

5) Commission Decision No: 98/715 of 11/30/98: OJ: L340 of 12/16/98, Clarifying Annex A to Council Regulation (EC) No: 2223/96 on the European System of National and Regional Accounts in the Community as concerns the principles for measuring prices and volumes.

6) Council Regulation No: 448/98 of 2/16/98: OJ: L58 of 2/27/98, Completing and amending regulation (EC) No: 2223/96 with respect to the allocation of financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) within the European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA).

7) Council Regulation No: 1260/99 of 6/21/99: OJ: L161 of 6/26/99, Laying down general provisions on the structural funds.

8) Council Regulation No: 2081/93 of 6/20/93: OJ: L193 of 7/31/93, amending regulation (EEC) No: 2052/88 on the tasks of the structural funds and their effectiveness and coordination of their activities between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments.

9) Council Regulation on Regional Accounts of 21 06 1999 and Parliament and Council Regulation of 21 06 2003.

Component 8: Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis

1) Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2003 concerning the production and development of Community statistics on science and technology Official Journal L 230 , 16/09/2003 P. 0001 - 0003

2) Council Decision of 15 September 1970, temporary programme from 1971 until 1973

3) Commission Decision on 15 July 1997 (references E/97/1419-C (97) 2241).

4) Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the “Communication from the commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Productivity: the key to Competitiveness of European Eco and Enterprises” (COM (2002) 262 final), (SEC (2002) 528), Official journal L 247, 17/09/2001 P.0001-0023.

5) Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations

6) Decision Council No: 297/1999 of 4/26/99: OJ: L117 of 5/5/99, *Establishing a Community statistical information infrastructure relating to the industry and market of the audiovisual and related sectors

7) Decision Commission No: 841/99 of 11/24/99: OJ: L326 of 12/18/99, Implementation of Council Decision (1999/297/EC) establishing a Community statistical information infrastructure relating to the industry and market of the audiovisual and related sectors

8) Regulation (EC) No 808/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 concerning Community statistics on the information society

Component 9: Enhancement of environmental statistics capacity

1) EU Sustainable Development Strategy

2) Sixth EU Environmental Action Programme

3) Conclusions of the Cardiff, Vienna, Helsinki, Lisbon, Gothenburg and Stockholm Summits

4) Commission Communication No: COM (2002) 82 final of 13/02/2002 ”Towards a global partnership for sustainable development”

5) Commission Communication No: COM (2001) 264 final of 15/05/2001 "A Sustainable Europe for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development"

6) Commission Communication No: COM (2002) 349 final of 01/07/2002 ”Towards a Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides”

7) Commission Communication No: COM (2003) 301of 27/05/2003 “Towards a thematic strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste”

8) Commission Communication No: COM (2001) 0031 of 01/01/01 of 09/01/01 of 24/01/01,on the sixth environment action programme of the European Community “Environment 2010: Our future, Our choice” - The Sixth Environment Action Programme: Comments: Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions On the sixth environment action programme of the European Community “Environment 2010: Our future, Our choice” - The Sixth Environment Action Programme

9) Council Resolution No: 93/517 of 01/02/93: OJ: C138 of 17/05/93, Community programme of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development : Comments: The Resolution written will be replaced by

the Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council (see "new legal act in preparation")

10) Parliament and Council Regulation No: 2150/2002/EC 25/11/02: OJ: L 332 of 09/11/02 on waste statistics

11) Parliament and Council Directive No: 2000/60/EC of 23/10/2000: OJ: L327 of 22/12/2000,establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy: Comments: Statistics on water use and discharges to water

12) Parliament and Council Decision No: 2179/98/EC of 24/09/98: OJ: L275 of 10/10/98, on the review of the European Community programme of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development “Towards sustainability”: Comments: Review of the Fifth action programme

13) Parliament and Council Decision No: 1600/2002/EC of 22/07/02: OJ: L 242 of 10/09/02, Sixth environmental action programme “Environment 2010: Our Future, our choice”

14) Parliament and Council Decision No: COM (2001) 31 of 01/01/01 of 01/09/01, laying down the Community Environment Action Programme 2001-2010 Comments: Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council, Laying down the Community Environment Action Programme 2001-2010 (presented by the Commission), COM (2001) 31 (to be approved in 2001).

Component 11: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data 1) Parliament and Council Decision No 1786/2002/EC of 23/09/02: OJ: L 271 of

09/10/02 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) – Commission Statements

2) Eurostat Working Group on Public Health : Agreement of 01/01/98, on Public Health statistics

3) Parliament and Council Decision No 1786/2002/EC of 23/09/02: OJ: L 271 of 09/10/02 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) – Commission Statements

4) Commission Agreement of 1999,on safety, hygiene and health at work. 5) Council Resolution No: 88/C 28/01 of 02/12/87 of 01/01/88, on safety, hygiene

and health at work 6) Council Directive No: 89/391//EEC of 12/06/89 : OJ: L183 of 29/06/89,

Introduction on measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work.

7) Commission Recommendation No: 90/326/EEC of 22/05/90: OJ: L06 of 26/06/90, concerning the adoption of a European schedule of occupational diseases

8) Council Resolution No: 95/C 168/01 of 27/03/95 of 01/04/95, on the transposition and application of Community social legislation

9) Council Resolution No: 2002/C 161/01 of 3/06/02 OJ: C161 of 05/07/02, on a new Community strategy on health and safety at work

For Component 10, Component 12, Component 13 and Component 14 this annex is not applicable.

Annex 6: Reference List of Relevant Strategic Plans and Studies State Institute of Statistics doesn’t have any strategic plan up to now. However, SIS has established a group to prepare starategic plan. It is assumed that the strategic plan will be ready by mid 2005.

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Annex 7. Pre-studies related to specific statistical areas

Business Registers

SIS has begun to study the Statistical Business Registers System by 2001. With Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Programme- Phase I. The General Census of Businesses 2002 was an opportunity to check the base for administrative sources ( i.e. Ministry of Finance records in the field) to use them for Business Registers. The results of the General Census of Businesses 2002 are evaluated and the first Statistical Business Registers System has been set up. The social and demographic statistics Household labour force survey has been applied regularly since 1988 in Turkey. The survey has been applied monthly from the beginning of the year 2000 and the results of the survey have been given on a quarterly and yearly basis. SIS does not have an independent labour cost survey up to now. Beginning from 1992, yearly data on labour cost has been produced through adding some questions to the regular Annual Manufacturing Survey, which covers establishments with 10 and more employees in manufacturing sector. This is the only source of labour cost in the Institute for the time being and contains only broad information. The first population census in Turkey was carried out in 1927. The following population censuses were carried out between 1935 and 1990 regularly, in years ending with ‘0’ and ‘5’. After 1990, population censuses have been decided to carry out in years ending with ‘0’ by a law and in this regard, the fourteenth Population Census was carried out on 22 October 2000. SIS collects vital statistics (marriage, divorce and death statistics) which are gathered by different administrative registrations. Marriage statistics are obtained from two different sources, which are marriage offices and population offices. “Marriage Statistics Forms” are filled out by the applicants and presented to the relevant municipal marriage office or population offices. Divorce statistics are gathered from Public Prosecutors’ Offices. “Divorce Statistics Forms” are filled out for each divorce case after final degrees are issued in the courts. Death statistics includes only province and district centers. Sub districts and villages are not included. Death statistics are gathered from Health directorates in provinces and from Health centers in district centers. These forms are filled out by municipal officers responsible for issuing burial permits. Information concerning immigration and asylum statistics are limited in Turkey, due to lack of proper data collection systems on international migration. Some data are available from governmental institutions that collect data for their own purposes. The SIS compiles data on migration from population censuses. The main sources on immigration and asylum in Turkey are the following: Border data collections, residence and work permits, data on refugee and asylum seekers from General Directorate of Security in Ministry of Interior; data on naturalization from General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs (again in Ministry of Interior); data on migrants (free migrants and migrants with law) from the General Directorate of Rural Affairs. SIS has carried out a pilot survey for the 1st wave of EU-SILC at the end of September in 2003 to 210 sample households in 13 regions of Turkey. The pilot for the second wave was carried out in May 2004. The sample frame was updated by a fieldwork and the sample households were selected and the training program for the fieldwork staff was organised at end of May 2004. In Turkey, main social insurance institutions are Pension Fund for government officials, Social Insurance Institute for employees and BAG-KUR for employers. The data related to social insurance including expenditures and beneficiaries are available for these organizations but not detailed and fully

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compliance with EU recommendations. In addition to the three main institutions, there are many organizations like fund, association, municipalities that satisfy social protection mainly to the poor, disabled, and old-age people in both central and local level. In 2003, State Institute of Statistics participated to the Social Protection Project which is implemented under the PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001. First application of Employment and Wage Structure Survey, which is the equivalent of European Union Structure of Earnings Survey, was in 1995 with the reference period of the year 1994. Because of the frame problem, only three sectors (manufacturing sector with 10 and more employees, mining and quarrying sector and electricity, gas and water sector) were covered in the first application. Tourism Statistics In order to provide the detailed information about departures of foreigners and citizens residing abroad Inbound Tourism Survey has been implemented quarterly since 2001 with the collaboration of MED-TOUR. Outbound Tourism Survey has been launched quarterly since 2003 to give information about arrivals of citizens residing in Turkey. Both of the surveys have three parts; profile, accommodation and expenditure information and they have realized in cooperation with Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Central Bank. Shuttle Trade has also been applied quarterly to produce information on BOP tables that is prepared by Central Bank. Ministry of Culture and Tourism is collecting and producing accommodation statistics monthly in city level. Business Statistics Development and harmonization studies on transport statistics have been started with Med –Trans Project which was carried out from 1997 to 2002. General Directorate of State Airports (GDSA) is responsible for compiling data on air transport. Under Secretariat of Maritime Affairs (UMA) is responsible for compiling data on sea transport. General Directorate of Security Affairs (GDSEA) is responsible for the vehicle registers. Administrative sources are not used for business statistics purposes except for establishing and updating of the business register. Registers held by the Ministry of Finance have been used to establish the Business Registers. Short Term Statistics on manufacturing industry, construction and mining-quarrying sectors are available. For the other sectors, it has not been produced yet. Different types of business statistics are carried out on a monthly and quarterly basis in Turkey. However, they do not conform to the EU regulation on short-term statistics. The statistical unit observed is the establishment. SIS have been used the national product classification based on ISIC Rev.2 until 1997 and ISIC Rev.3, a national version of ISIC Rev.3 (referred to as NC-97 and was directly comparable with ISIC Rev.3) between the years of 1997 and 2001. After 2002 PRODCOM has been used. 2002 PRODCOM List and products which are produced in Turkey were included and that list was used in the survey. There were three different - monthly, quarterly and annual -surveys related to PRODCOM list. With these survey data on production and consumption at product level were collected. Classification System

SIS has already started a project relating to the development and establishment of a classification server covered by USST Phase I. This project is planned to be finished until the end of 2005. All EU and UN classifications will be uploaded into this server.

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Agricultural Statistics System The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pays an essential role in the economic development of the Member States of the European Union. It is aimed at decreasing structural disparities amongst Member States and regions by deploying large monetary flows. It supports i.e. the adjustment of agricultural structures, the improvement of structural efficiency of holdings, the improvement of the quality of agricultural outputs and the development of agricultural infrastructure. The transformation of the objectives of the CAP requires a comprehensive and well developed agricultural information system, which constitutes a reliable information basis for any decision making process in this context. To prepare Candidate Countries for its accession to the European Union they need to comply fully with the Acquis Communautaire. This is a real challenge for both, for the Candidate Countries and Member States respective EC institutions dealing with specific areas of the Acquis Communautaire. Eurostat initiated a comprehensive co-operation programme to bring agricultural statistics of Candidate Countries quickly in line with EU requirements. Turkish agricultural statistics are based on the administrative level. Under the phase 1 of Upgrading Statistical System of Turkey (USST), statiscal farm register is going to be established in line with EU requirements. In addition to that, Farm Structure Survey and improving of existing surveys (livestock, crop, vineyard and orchard) are taken into account under the context of USST I, on the basis of agricultural holdings. The other issues like animal production statistics are covered by this fiche. Data collection and methodology for USST 2 components are going to be fully respect with Eurostat standarts. Morover, by using the results of USST 2 technical support program, statistical farm register and database will be updated. In Turkey, the regular agricultural holdings register has been progressing since 2001, by the programme of Direct Income Support of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The agricultural holdings have no obligatory for application of this programme it is based on voluntary basis. The other source of agricultural holding register is Agricultural Holding List, which was obtained by SIS during General Agricultural Census 2001. These registers will be constituting a base for the statistical farm register held in USST I programme. There is no legal obligatory on the accountancy registery for the agricultural holdings in Turkey. Also, the registers of agricultural holdings are not regular and most of the agricultural holdings are very small and land of these agricultural holdings is very small. In addition to that, the agricultural production produced by these small holdings is used for their own domestic needs. Especially, the current meat statistics are based on the slaughters figures. There are no figures about the meat production based on the agricultural holdings and outdoor slaughter of animals. These are a few characteristics of the Turkish agricultural system. By establishing the Statistical Farm Register under the context of USST I, the produced statisctics will be based on the agricultural holdings and size of the holdings. Thus, agricultural statistics will be produced according to the size of agricultural holdings.

There are no Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) according to the Eurostat Methodology in Turkey, yet. Gross National Product by kind of activity is computed. The agricultural sector covers crop products, livestock products, and the forestry and fishery sectors. The value added in agriculture is grouped according to farming, livestock, fishery and forestry activities. The quarterly estimates are based on the surveys of “Quarterly Production of Field Crops”, “Quarterly Production of Fruits” and “Quarterly Production of Vegetables”.

Supply Balance Sheets were prepared for the years 1989 and 1995 only in SIS. Supply Balance Sheets shall provide an analysis of the technical conversion factors of agricultural products and the product

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balances in Turkey. For 1989 and 1995, the consumption of each product was calculated separately by determining loss rates occurred within the processing stages.

Some statistcs on animal production such as number of animals milked, number of animals shorn, milk production meat production etc. are produced by using coefficients from the existing surveys data in SIS and based on administrative level. These current data are not in line with EU norms. Under this project proposal of fiche, meat, milk and eggs are taken into account as an animal production statistics. These statistics will be collected on the basis of agricultural holding by using farm register as a frame. These animal productions are very important for Turkey. For example, in 2003, meat production was 497,246 tons, broiler production was 872,392 tons, milk production was 10,611,011 tons and number of henn eggs was 12,666,782. By this fiche, these production statistics will be harmonized in line with EU requirements. These figures are also necessary for calculation of balance sheets of products.

Forestry Statistics are produced by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. There is no centralized system for compilation of information and an adequate structuring thereof. This compiling process is carried out by each unit in the formats that are changed when necessary and on various bases.

Agricultural price statistics cover the prices received by the farmer (PRF) for agricultural commodities at the point of sale and the prices paid by farmers (PPF) for inputs. Prices are collected on a monthly basis from bazaars within 860 districts. The index of prices received by farmers and the index of prices paid by farmers have been calculated with base 1994=100.

National Accounts In Turkey, Ministry of Finance (MOF) and The Undersecretariat of Treasury (UT) are the main data sources for government accounts. For central government MOF and UT have shared responsibility for the data collection: revenue and expenditure are prepared by the MOF and financing by UT. GG financial accounts are not yet compiled in Turkey. The Gross Domestic Product accounts by region in Turkey are estimated by using production approach. GDP by provinces and regions have been estimated by kind of activity through the production approach. SIS has calculated GDP by regions since 1987 in current as well as constant prices. Value added by industries by regions is presented in producers' prices. GDP by provinces (NUTS3) and regions (NUTS2 and NUTS1) are calculated by using top-down method in Turkey. Input-Output tables in Turkey were compiled for 1968, 1973, 1979, 1985 and 1990 by SIS in the same format. Supply and use tables were prepared for the years 1996 and 1998 by using the concepts and definitions of SNA’93 and the classification of ISIC Rev. 3. Supply and use tables and input-output tables for 1998 were prepared at basic prices in the first time and the table of net taxes on products and imports matrix including goods and services imports (previous tables has only goods imports) also prepared. Input-output tables for domestic output and imports are prepared as product-by-product input-output tables based on industry technology assumption. In Turkey, GDP estimates by expenditure approach are available on a quarterly basis. Estimates on Gross Fixed Capital Formation are made separately for two main types of assets: construction and machinery - equipment. Estimates on Consumption of Fixed Capital are also available for two main types of assets: construction and machinery - equipment A study coordinated by the CBRT in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Undersecretariat of Treasury (UT) and State Institute of Statistics (SIS) in order to compile financial accounts has been started. It aims to determine existing situation, define the standards and data requirements as a priority. Financial accounts are not compiled yet, but in general there has been a good progress in this field. CBRT prepared the non consolidated balance sheet for financial assets and liabilities for the monetary financial institutions sector for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, general

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government sector excluding local government and other financial corporations sector for the years 2000 2001 with the available data. Turkey has rather high rates of inflation. It is vital to be able to express GDP in these countries in real terms, i.e. at constant prices. Main aggregates in constant prices are estimated at the same level of details as main aggregates in current prices. Base year at present is 1987, the same year as the base for the wholesale and consumer price index. Multi-Domain Statistics SIS has been carrying out surveys to produce Research and Development and Technological innovation data at only national level. GBAORD data is not available yet. GBAORD data can be available much earlier than the results of R&D Surveys therefore it is demanded by the government to formulate science and technology policies. The estimation method SIS used in higher education sector in R&D survey is formed in 1990. But nowadays it could not respond to the changes in the sector. SIS publishes seasonally adjusted series of monthly and quarterly industrial production index by using FAME in the publication named Turkish Economy Statistics and Analysis. Series can be also adjusted by using the Tramo-Seats programme. SIS and the Central Bank of Turkey have jointly launched a study within the framework of “Consumer Survey” Protocol in 2003. The Consumer Tendency Survey, which is the source for the consumer confidence index, was annexed to Household Labor Force Survey in the form of a module. The pilot survey was carried out between April 2003-December 2003. Monthly and quarterly tendency surveys in manufacturing industry have been carried out in SIS. The survey on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry was conducted in the year 2002. Some regional indicators will be collected after the USST I program. In Turkey, rural area definition is different from other EU countries. Rural statistics collected for some themes such as population, budget and labour force. In these studies, rural area definition is used for the areas which have population under the 20 000. Turkey has speeded up the efforts to make Turkey an information society as it joins eEurope+ together with candidate countries. Being as a part of these efforts, e-Transformation Turkey Project has been started. This project aims to foster the evolution and to coordinate information society activities. SIS is responsible for providing all necessary data for monitoring and evaluation of the project. SIS has just initiated works on ICT Usage statistics on households. Environmental Statistics SIS has been dealing with the environmental statistics according to framework of the OECD core set of environmental data and indicators since 1990. Data related to municipal solid waste collection and disposal, and industrial solid waste generation, recycling/reuse and disposal have been collected via surveys applied to municipalities and industrial establishments since 1994 and 1992 respectively. Waste classification of ECE has been considered for 2000 for industrial establishments, but starting from 2004 European Waste Catalogue will be considered according to the Regulation on Waste Statistics, which was enacted in 2002. Data on municipal water supply and treatment, municipal wastewater collection, treatment and discharge, industrial water supply, consumption and industrial wastewater treatment and discharge have been collected via surveys since 1994. Also data on public irrigation water and rural drinking water abstraction had been collected from the registers of related organizations only for 1998.

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Environmental expenditure data have been collected from industrial establishments, municipalities, and governmental organizations since 1997 via surveys. Turkey is also one of the partners of MED-Env project, which aims to improve statistical infrastructure of environmental statistics of Mediterranean countries, which are non-member of EU. First phase of the project was held between 1999-2003 and priority topics waste, water and land use were tackled. Information and Communication Technology Services SIS is one of the largest and most advanced computer users in Turkey. It has an installed base of approximately 1600 PC computers in the head office, of which 1400 are connected through a local area network to various server computers, and an IBM mainframe. Hardware and software platforms in SIS are divers. In its head office SIS has installed a traditional mainframe (IBM) as well as a number of servers linked to PC's in a Local Area Network (LAN). For software, the range of platforms is even wider. Used programming languages range from the traditional Assembler and Cobol to the more modern Visual Basic and C++. Operating systems vary from different versions of Windows to Unix and even Linux. The main large database systems are based on Oracle and DB2 but SQL Server and even Ingress are also applied. Smaller databases are mainly based on MS Access but FoxPro and other packages are used as well. System development methods and procedures are still largely traditional. Especially the Data Processing department, which is still oriented to Cobol, uses hardly any modern system development methodology or tool. There is no policy regarding buying/developing software or outsourcing or activities. Overall, the focus of ICT department is on technology rather than on SIS business. SIS has 26 Regional Offices, 5 of which have an operational LAN. Every regional office can access the head quarter by using dial-up over RAS. However currently a diversity of hardware is being used, any new development should focus on the environment of workstations and servers running Microsoft Windows, mainly Windows 2000, connected through a LAN. Some improvements of hardware and management have already taken place, in line with these improvements; SIS is developing a new ICT strategy. Health Statistics Ministry of Health has been collected health data through their Provincial Offices and published them annually. In addition there has been some health information in the other institutions (Social Insurance Institution, Ministry of Defence, Universities), some of them have been used for statistical purposes and others used only for institutional purposes. These were National Burden of Diseases (MoH), National Health Expenditures Survey which was carried out by Ministry of Health, Turkey Demographic and Health Survey which was carried out by Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies and also Disability Survey which was carried out by State Institute of Statistics. Under the umbrella of Social Security System, there are three institutions dealing with health and safety at work which are Social Insurance Institution, Pension Funds and Bag-Kur. Occupational accidents and diseases data have been compiled for only insured persons covered by Social Insurance Institution (SII). SII started the implementation of work injuries insurance in 1945. Data about occupational accidents and diseases are available since the year 1946.

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Multi Beneficiary Programme SIS has participated to Candidate Countries Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001 for statistical co-operation on 11 topics which are Social protection statistics, Income and living conditions, Financial indicators, Purchasing Power Parity, Innovation statistics, Short-term business statistics, Prodcom classification survey, Foreign affiliates trade statistics, Infra-annual economic statistics, Health and safety at work, Public health statistics. Project Implementation Team For the first program of upgrading Turkish Statistical System a project implementation team was set up for overall management of all components of the programme. During the implementation period SIS has got comprehensive knowledge on project management. Administrative Structure of SIS A new statistical law which will act as the basis of reform of Turkish Statistical System was prepared and submitted to Prime Ministry on January 2004. The Prime Ministry transferred the draft Law to the Turkish Grand National Assembly on June 2004. Intense works for the reform of the Regional Offices are underway. This aims at producing regional statistics on NUTS levels. Protocols were signed between SIS and the General Directorate of Security Affairs, the Undersecretariat of External Trade and the Human Rights Institution. The last is very important since statistics in this area will be produced for the first time. A strategic plan for statistical production at SIS is at the “eve” of finalaization. A committee is in te process of being established to prepare the 5 year plan for official statistics of Turkey.

Statistical classification of the regions were previously entirely based on the administrative divisions, which were 7 regions and 81 provinces. The SIS was supported by 22 regional offices and a directorate in its collection of data.

In September 2002 Turkey adopted the European statistical classification of region (NUTS) which structures Turkey for statistical and regional development reasons into 12 NUTS-1, 26 NUTS-2 and 81 NUTS-3 levels. In compliance with this, the SIS reallocated some of its regional offices and increased the number to 26, now having one regional office in each NUTS-2 level area.

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Annex 8. Details of the equipments planned to be tendered under supply contract

* This annex is prepared in order to analyse the equipment needs of each component. The equipment needs were determined in an integrated fashion and considering economies of scale. ** Laptops, pocket and table PCs requested are to be used in data collection activities.

Component 1: Improvement of Business Register System by Studying on Enterprise Groups Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC (notebook) 20 1500 30000 Printer 2 1500 3000 Software 100000 Other 60000 Total 193000 Component 2: Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 19 1500 28500 Tablet PC 50 1500 75000 Printer 6 1500 9000 Software Other Total 112500 Component 3: Improvement of Tourism Statistics Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC (notebook) 6 1500 9000 Printer 6 1500 9000 Software Other Total 18000 Component 4: Improving the Business Statistics Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 77 1500 115500 Printer 17 1500 25500 Software Other Total 141000 Component 5: Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 63 1500 94500 Printer 6 1500 9000 Software Other Total 103500

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Component 6: Enhancement of environmental statistics capacity Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 8 1500 13000 Printer 3 1500 4500 Software 10000 Other Total 27500

Component 7: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 15 1500 22500 Notebook 2 1500 3000 Printer 5 1500 7500 Software [ ACME............] 4 120000 Other [describe.......................]

Colour Printer 2 400 800 fax 3 1000 3000

Copy machine 3 2000 6000 CD-Writer 2 500 1000

Total 163800

Component 9: Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 25 1500 37500 Printer 7 1500 10500 Software Other 12000 Total 60000

Component 10: Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of ESA95 Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC 15 2000 30000 Printer 10 1500 15000 Software Other 4 28000 Total 73000

Component 11: Improvement of information and communication technology Equipments Number Unit Cost € Total Cost € PC (special) 5 2000 10000 PC 529 1500 793500 Pocket PC 100 500 50000 Tablet PC 60 1500 90000 Thin Client 80 500 40000 Printer 83 1500 124500 Software (Data Warehouse and Mining tools, case tools, etc; security; backup software;

260000

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design, development and deployment software for content vendor units; Software for Log analyses on web server; network and system management/monitoring software; Data storage software) Server for regional offices 26 10000 260000 Server for Central Office 1 40000 40000 Cluster Server for Central office 3 combined

server 225000 225000

LAN and UPS cabling for Regional Offices

8 15000 120000

Data storage system 1 120000 120000 WAN active equipment 26 3000 78000 Remote training equipment 27 5000 135000 IP phone equipment(Phone) 100 300 30000 IP phone equipment (Central) 1 50000 50000 Other 183000 Total 2609000

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Annex 9. Detailed project fiches for each component

Component 1 Improvement of Business Register System by Studying on Enterprise Groups

Component 2 Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data Component 3 Improvement of Tourism Statistics

Component 4 Improving the Business Statistics

Component 5 Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System

Component 6 Enhancement of environmental statistics capacity

Component 7 Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data Component 8 Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS Component 9 Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis Component 10 Improvement of National Accounts according to the recommendation of ESA95 Component 11 Improvement of information and communication technology

Component 12 Multi Beneficiary Programme

Component 13 Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS Component 14 Project Implementation Team


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Component 1: Improvement of Business Registers System 1. Objectives 1.1 Overall Objective(s): To have a Statistical Business Registers System that fully comply with EU norms according to new developments 1.2 Project Purpose: To go along with the changes in related EU regulations by studying on especially Enterprise Groups and newly added sectors. Also, to study on Business Demography. 2. Background and justification: SIS has begun to study on a Statistical Business Registers System by 2001. There was consensus in SIS on need of a Business Registers System that use administrative sources instead of very expensive data collection methods, however the country conditions on those days did not allow SIS to use administrative registers efficiently. With Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Programme- Phase I, the studies were accelerated. The actual SIS registers and the related EU documents were evaluated. Also, an inventory study was realised on the other governmental bodies, which held the registers. General Census of Businesses, 2002 was a chance to check the base for administrative sources, Ministry of Finance records, in the field that is used for Business Registers. The results of General Census of Businesses, 2002 are evaluated and the first Statistical Business Registers System has been set up according to Council Regulation No 2186/93 and also Council Regulation No 696/93. The planned activities according to Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey- Phase I have began to realised. The first version of Statistical Business Registers of Turkey contains all compulsory units, sectors and variables and some optionals indicated in the related regulations. The only appropriate administrative body is Ministry of Finance in the mean time. Due to the fact of the increase in the user needs and the developments at that area, the changes on EU regulation is inevitable. The discussions on that were drawn. SIS shall fully comply with the related new EU regulations. Not only for the changes and improvements indicated by the Regulation but also for different purposes, especially for the updates, there is a need of having more than one administrative source. Legislative basis: Council Regulation No 2186/93 is about the building up of business registers for statistical purposes. Also, Council Regulation No 696/93 defines the statistical standards applicable to the identification of units in order to make comparable information available to enterprises, financial institutions, governments and all other operators in the internal market.


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3. Results 3.1. Study on Enterprise Groups • Studies on administrative sources which are able to supply information on enterprise groups are

done. • Enterprise Groups are set out clearly. • The structure of Enterprise Groups is constructed by surveys and by the help of prepared software. • The permanent internet application for the future updates is achieved 3.2. Improvement of Business Registers • The needed data is taken from possible administrative sources for various purposes besides

Ministry of Finance records. • Sectors newly taken as compulsory are added into the system. • Further studies on maintenance and updating of the business registers are realized. 3.3. Harmonisation with changes on EU regulation • For deficiencies with renewed Business Registers Regulation, studies on Statistical Business

Registers of Turkey to catch up with new Regulation have been started. • The prepared Business Registers Regulation is updated. 3.4. Study on Business Demography • Studies on administrative sources, which are able to supply information on business demography,

are done. • Business Demography data is evaluated and publicised. 3.5. Training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties • Turkish Statisticians are well trained on the subject by participating training courses, study visits,

working parties, conferences etc. • Local meetings ensure the improvement of relations between SIS and related administrative

bodies. 4. Activities (including means) 4.1. Study on Enterprise Groups • Study on administrative sources, which are able to provide information on enterprise groups, will

be realized. • SIS staff will clarify the units and study on Enterprise Groups by the help of the both local and EU

experts. • The design of the questionnaires, training notes, handbooks and planning of trainings will be

realized by local and EU experts.


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• EU and Local experts will prepare the needed software (such as internet application) for further studies on Enterprise Groups.

• The trainings, handbooks of the internet application will be made by SIS staff and experts • The survey will be applied, editing, coding, data entry of returned questionnaires will be realized. • The enterprise groups will be analyzed in the field both via internet and/or paper based application • The lack information on Enterprise Groups will be taken by telephone interviews. • The enterprise groups will be included in the Statistical Business Registers of Turkey. 4.2. Improvement of Business Registers • Possible administrative sources will be included in the Business Registers System for different

purposes besides Ministry of Finance records due to the fact of changing needs and conditions. • The sectors that are optional at the mean time and will be compulsory in the following years will

be added into the system. • Procurement of equipment such as computer, laptop, printers, server etc. 4.3. Harmonisation with changes on EU regulation • The prepared Turkish Business Register Regulation will be updated in order to comply with EU

regulations. 4.4. Study on Business Demography • Study on administrative sources which are able to provide information on business demography

will be realized. • SIS staff will study on Business Demography by the help of both local and EU experts. • Needed inventory studies will be done. • The design of the questionnaires, training notes, handbooks and planning of trainings will be

realized by local and EU experts. • EU and Local experts will prepare the needed software for further studies on Business

Demography. • The trainings, handbooks of the application will be made by SIS staff and experts. • The survey in order to find out real births, real deaths, mergers, split-off, take –over etc. will be

applied, editing, coding, data entry of returned questionnaires will be realized. • The results will be analyzed. • The publication will be made. 4.5. Training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties • SIS and some other administrative bodies’ staff will participate in training courses, study visits,

working parties, conferences, local meetings etc. 5. Linked Activities Through Upgrading Statistical System of Turkey Programme Phase I, Statistical Business Registers System will have been set up with compulsory variables inline with the Regulation which is enforce. However, some updates will be realized in Business Regulation and by this phase, the complementation of harmonization can be realized. The cooperation with related administrative bodies and civil organizations mentioned in Turkish National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis will be improved.


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Component 2: Upgrading the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data.

1. Objectives: 1.1. Overall Objective(s): The overall objective of this project is to upgrade the social and demographic statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data on these issues in order to meet European Union information demands. 1.2. Project Purpose:

Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force • To produce comparable data with EU on specific issues of labour market Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force Surveys. Establishing the labour cost index • To establish the labour cost index by taking into account the integrated system of statistics on earnings and labour cost. Developing the system population and housing • To evaluate the current system of population census and improve the population and housing census system considering the new systems. • To improve topics included in the census; definitions, classifications and application that are compatible with EU requirements by keeping our previous trend of the censuses which has to be taken into account during these improvements for continuity and comparability.

Developing Administrative Registration System

• To gather regular, quality and reliable data on vital statistics for the whole Turkey and to produce reliable and quality data on vital statistics according to the European Union requirements. Establishing the System of Data Collection on Immigration and Asylum Statistics

• To set up a collection system on international migration to gather regular, reliable data of high quality a compatible with EU standards and to produce immigration and asylum data on selected sources, whether statistical or administrative sources. Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

• To produce yearly cross-sectional and longitudinal statistics on poverty, income distribution and other socio-economic indicators in the context of harmonisation with the EU statistics system. Improving the Social Protection Statistics

• To improve data collection system for Social Protection Statistics by increasing coverage,


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• To adopt the improvement in the methodology of ESSPROS Manual 1996 into the system of Turkey. • To produce comparable and compliant data according to ESSPROSS required by EUROSTAT on time annually. Continuing Vocational Training Survey

• To establish a common framework for the development and production of community statistics on vocational training in enterprises.

Structure of Earnings Pilot Survey

• To produce statistics on the structure and distribution of earnings through applying Structure of Earnings Pilot Survey to compile with Eurostat requirements.

2. Background and justification:

Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force Household labour force survey has been applied regularly since 1988 in Turkey. The survey has been applied monthly from the beginning of the year 2000 and the results of the survey have been given on a quarterly and yearly basis. The questionnaire used takes into consideration the definitions of international standards and would provide employment and unemployment data comparable to Eurostat. Though, the survey has been fully compliant with EU standards from the aspects of concepts and definitions used, periodicity and timeliness, there were some deficiencies on variables up to year 2004. Another deficiency of LFS was lack of regional estimates on NUTS 2 level. All these deficiencies have been removed by the implementation of a Labour Force Pilot Survey being applied within the framework of a USST Phase I Projects from the beginning of the year 2004. Though the financial and technical assistance planned within the framework of a USST 1 Projects could not be taken on time due to the postponement of Project, new design of the LFS has started from the beginning of the year 2004. After removing these deficiencies on LFS, it has been intend to meet other EU requirements and second stage project activities were planned in direction with this purpose. By implementing these project activities, the modular surveys will be started and through the application of these surveys, comparable data with EU on specific issues would be produced and a very important data source will be obtained for the Turkish labour market. Establishing the labour cost index

SIS does not have an independent labour cost survey up to now. Beginning from 1992, yearly data on labour cost has been produced through adding some questions to the regular Annual Manufacturing Survey, which covers establishments with 10 and more employees in manufacturing sector. This is the only source of labour cost in the Institute for the time being and contains only broad information. The Pilot Labour Cost Survey is planned within the framework of the USST Phase I in order to achieve the compliance with Eurostat regulations.

Following the completion of first phase of the Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Project, dealing with establishing the labour cost index will be of concern. In this context, feasibility studies on labour cost index will be started as a first step. Once established, quarterly labour cost index will meet the short-term user requirements on labour cost statistics.

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The first population census in Turkey was carried out in 1927. The following population censuses were carried out between 1935 and 1990 regularly, in years ending with ‘0’ and ‘5’. After 1990, population censuses have been decided to carried out in years ending with ‘0’ by a law and in this regard, the fourteenth Population Census was carried out on 22 October 2000.

Implementing the population censuses is the legal duty of the State Institute of Statistics (SIS). The field application of census is realized in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior. Population Census is carried out in one day by declaration of a curfew according to the de facto definition in Turkey. Enumerators (approximately one million enumerators in 2000 Population Census) visit all the places that constitute a household, and that do not constitute a household (hospital, dormitory, prison, military, quarter, hotel, etc.) and fill in the questionnaires by face-to-face interview. Training of the census staff charged in the field application is implemented in three stages: training of consultants, training of trainers and training of enumerators and supervisors. Next census will be conducted in 2010.

Developing Administrative Registration System

SIS collects vital statistics (marriage, divorce and death statistics) which are gathered by different administrative registrations. Marriage statistics are obtained from two different sources, which are marriage offices and population offices. “Marriage Statistics Forms” are filled out by the applicants and presented to the relevant municipal marriage office or population offices. Divorce statistics are gathered from Public Prosecutors’ Offices. “Divorce Statistics Forms” are filled out for each divorce case after final degrees are issued in the courts. Death statistics includes only province and district centers. Sub districts and villages are not included. Death statistics are gathered from Health directorates in provinces and from Health centers in district centers. These forms are filled out by municipal officers responsible for issuing burial permits. All these vital statistics forms are sent to State Institute of Statistics. After gathered these forms, they are edited, coded, entered to computer and then analyzed and evaluated and also published annually. Establishing the System of Data Collection on Immigration and Asylum Statistics

Information concerning immigration and asylum statistics are limited in Turkey, due to lack of proper data collection systems on international migration. Some data are available from governmental institutions that collect data for their own purposes. The SIS compiles data on migration from population censuses. The main sources on immigration and asylum in Turkey are the following: Border data collections, residence and work permits, data on refugee and asylum seekers from General Directorate of Security in Ministry of Interior; data on naturalization from General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs (again in Ministry of Interior); data on migrants (free migrants and migrants with law) from the General Directorate of Rural Affairs. Statistics on Income and Living Conditions SIS has carried out a pilot survey for the 1st wave of EU-SILC at the end of September in 2003 to 210 sample households in 13 regions of Turkey. The pilot for the second wave was carried out in May 2004. All the preparatory works including preparation of survey documents such as questionnaires, manuals etc., data entry programs for portable computers, sampling design was completed. The sample frame was updated by a fieldwork and the sample households were selected and the training program for the fieldwork staff was organised at end of May 2004. SIS had planned to conduct the first wave of SILC survey between June and September in 2004 to approximately 12 000 households to have estimates on whole Turkey at urban/rural breakdown and NUTS level by following the all processes of harmonised SILC survey. The field application period was determined as April-June, as recommended by Eurostat, but it has been delayed because the purchasing of portable computers in the coverage of USST-I hasn’t been fulfilled yet. SIS has planned to carry out the first wave of SILC in


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2005. Because the 4th wave of the SILC survey will be carried out in 2008, the longitudinal data for four years will have been available for analysis by the last quarter of 2008. Improving the Social Protection Statistics In Turkey, main social insurance institutions are Pension Fund for government officials, Social Insurance Institute for employees and BAG-KUR for employers. The data related to social insurance including expenditures and beneficiaries are available for these organizations but not detailed and fully compliance with EU recommendations. In addition to the three main institutions, there are many organizations like fund, association, municipalities that satisfy social protection mainly to the poor, disabled, old-age people in both central and local level. There is no coordination between organizations that provide social protection services. The definition of the scope of social protection differs organization by organization. Therefore it is necessary to formulate a conventional definition of the scope of social protection which meets as well as possible the needs of social policy analysis and data collection on both national and international level. In 2003, State Institute of Statistics participated to the Social Protection Project which is implemented under the PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001 for Statistical Cooperation in order to produce comparable data with EU requirements. Since this is a very new issue for SIS, main contributions of the project are to improve skills of staff on the social protection issue in terms of scope, definition, classification and evaluating the existing system of Turkey by considering the international approaches. This project has been finished in August 2004. Continuing Vocational Training Survey Turkey has not been involved in this kind of study before. Structure of Earnings Pilot Survey

First application of Employment and Wage Structure Survey, which is the equivalent of European Union Structure of Earnings Survey, was in 1995 with the reference period of the year 1994. Because of the frame problem, only three sectors (manufacturing sector with 10 and more employees, mining and quarrying sector and electricity, gas and water sector) were covered in the first application. The second application could not be done until now due to the establishment frame problem.

Structure of Earnings Survey of Turkey needs to be revised to compile European Union standards. As a preparatory work, the questionnaire is being revised by examining the regulations and other documents of Eurostat and other Countries’ questionnaires. Questionnaire and sample design of the survey are planned to be covered in the framework of USST-Phase I. Following the completion of these preparatory studies, the application of the survey is planned to be covered within the coverage of second stage project activities in 2007 with the reference year of 2006, that is timely with EU countries. 3. Results

3.1. Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force • Necessary arrangements on questionnaire and data entry programme are made to produce data on each module and modular surveys are scheduled on working programme of SIS. • Comparable data with Eurostat on specific issues of labour market (such as work organisation and working time arrangements, reconciliation of work and family life, transition from work into retirement etc.) are produced according to the regulations of Eurostat on ad-hoc modules relating to the time period of application of USST phase II.


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• SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.2. Establishing the labour cost index • Feasibility studies to determine the data source to produce index data are completed. Appropriate statistical estimation procedures are used where necessary. • The computer programme to be used for calculating the index are produced taking into consideration the related regulations of Eurostat • The index figures for three categories as requested by related regulations are obtained and results are analyzed • Technical capacity and experience of SIS staff on labour cost index are improved through participating trainings, conferences, working parties and study visits • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.3. Developing the system population and housing • The system of population and housing census is developed as compatible with European Union requirements and a new census questionnaire is developed in cooperation with the related organizations. • Updated address frame and enumeration areas are established for whole country. For urban areas, address frame and enumeration areas are based on maps as much as possible. • Data processing method is revised according to the new census questionnaire and new system. • The skill of the census staff are be improved through study tours, seminars, meetings and the experiences gained from project activities as a preparatory work for next census. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.4. Developing Administrative Registration System • The current administrative registration system having problems and limitations are reported. • The administrative registration system for Turkey is identified. • Technical information on administrative registration system is developed. • Regular, quality and reliable data on vital statistics for the whole Turkey is gathered. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.5. Establishing the System of Data Collection on Immigration and Asylum Statistics • The system of data collection on international migration is identified. • Data on international migration in Turkey to use comparable definitions according to UN recommendations on migration statistics is improved. • A high quality and reliable data on international migration statistics are available. • Immigration and asylum statistics are improved in the SIS. • A system on regular collection of comparable and harmonized data on immigration and asylum statistics is established and cooperation both within the European Union and with national and international organizations is improved. • SIS and other related organisations' staff are well trained. 3.6. Statistics on Income and Living Conditions • Survey results based on the four waves of the SILC are analysed and the survey methodology is improved according to the experiences of experts and results of the field implementation. • The knowledge and experience of SIS staff are improved. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties.


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3.7. Improving the Social Protection Statistics • Social protection statistics is covered all social protection services in Turkey by the end of the USST2. • Detail of data in terms of ESSPROSS are improved in order to provide comparable statistics with EU countries. • The revised ESSPROS Manual is adopted in the system of Turkey. • The social protection statistics considering data requested by EUROSTAT are provided to the users on time annually. • In order to improve the knowledge on social protection statistics and its importance for policy makers and to share problems related to data quality and data collection system, awareness of decision makers and skill of the staff of related organizations will be improved. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.8. Continuing Vocational Training Survey • The ratio of enterprises providing continuing vocational training survey is obtained. • Participation rate at the enterprises according to level of education and age- group is obtained. • Expenditures on continuing vocational training according to enterprises size are calculated. • Incentives for continuing vocational training are known. • A common framework for the development and production of community statistics on vocational training in enterprises is established. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 3.9. Structure of Earnings Pilot Survey • Field application of the 2006 SES is realized timely with the EU countries • Analysis and comparison of aggregated SES results with other sources are achieved and the data quality was tested • Analysis and preperation of micro data to be sent to Eurostat is completed and Quality Report requested by Eurostat is prepared • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 4. Activities (including Means) 4.1. Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force • SIS staff will prepare the questionnaire with the consultancy of EU experts. • The data entry programme, which is related to ad-hoc module and the necessary arrangements in order to produce reliable estimates about new variables, will be prepared by SIS staff. • Additional portable computers to be used in the field application of the survey will be purchased with the financial resources of the Project. • Organization and application of the field study of ad-hoc modules will be realized and necessary analysis on survey results will be done by SIS. • The results of the modular survey will be published by the SIS every year. • SIS experts will participate in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 4.2. Establishing the labour cost index • EU regulations on labour cost index will be adopted with the help of EU consultancy and the weights to be used for index will be obtained by using labour cost survey results.


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• Feasibility studies to determine the data source to produce index data will be realized with the consultancy of EU experts. Appropriate statistical estimation procedures will also be recommended where necessary. • The index figures for three categories as requested by related regulations will be obtained and results will be analyzed with the help of local experts • The results of the index figures will be published by SIS • SIS experts will participate in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 4.3. Developing the system population and housing • The current population census system of Turkey will be assessed and problematic areas will be defined to develop a new system of population and housing census as compatible with EU requirements with the assistance of the EU short term expert and local expert. • New census legislation will be prepared together with EU short term expert and local expert during the preparation of new census legislation according to the new system of population and housing census. This legislation will cover the duties and responsibilities of SIS and other related organizations like General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, municipalities, etc. • Together with EU and local experts the field operation and constituting the updated address frame and establishing enumeration areas digitally or in paper form by using maps especially in big cities will be planned. For this purpose, detail of field operation including enumeration method, standard address components will be determined. In order to establish a consistent address frame, maps and addresses on the building lists will be matched and inconsistencies will be determined. • Census questionnaire will be prepared by taking into account the recommendations of ECE/EUROSTAT for 2010 census. The questionnaire will be designed under the supervision of the EU short-term expert and local expert in cooperation with other related organizations like State Planning Organization, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and etc. • Data processing methodology including coding, data capture, data editing, processing control, tabulation, databases will be planned in cooperation with EU short term and national consultants. • Pre-tests will be conducted to test the design of census questionnaire, duration of application, understandability of the questions, and sufficiency of the answer choices of the questions that affect the data quality. • Pilot Census will be implemented in order to test all stages of the new census system before the 2010 Population and Housing Census: including design and application of census questionnaire, defining enumeration areas and field operation. • Post Enumeration Survey (PES) will be conducted after the Pilot Census in order to evaluate the quality of pilot census data and the coverage of the pilot census. • Pre-tests, Pilot Census and PES will be implemented under the supervision of the EU short-term expert and local expert. • SIS staff will participate training courses, conferences, seminars and study visits in member countries in order to improve knowledge on population census system and to share experiences of EU countries. • In order to discuss current and new census systems, local workshop will be organized. It will be hold a small participation by inviting academicians from universities, technical staff from related organizations and EU consultants in order to get technical recommendations and offers. The workshop will be hold in Turkey. 4.4. Developing Administrative Registration System • The current administrative registration system will be re-evaluated together with EU expert and local expert. • Vital statistics forms will be re-revised together with EU expert and local expert. • MERNIS database will be re-evaluated together with EU expert and local expert.


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• Vital statistics data will be compared with MERNIS database together with EU expert and local expert. • The pilot study will be applied for marriage and divorce statistics together with local expert. • MERNIS database to transition permanent residence will be re-evaluated again together with EU expert and local expert. • The pilot study and MERNIS database will be evaluated and reported together with EU expert and local expert. • The related organizations to gather data on vital statistics will be determined together with local expert. • The coordination between SIS and other related organizations will be provided. • The related organization’s staffs will be trained on collecting data of vital statistics as a workshop. • The collection data on vital statistics will be started for the whole Turkey. 4.5. Establishing the System of Data Collection on Immigration and Asylum Statistics • The system of data collection on international migration statistics will be identified by EU expert and a local expert • Training on international migration will be provided by EU expert for SIS and other related organization's staff and study visit will be organized. • The current statistical data collection situation/system will be analyzed and evaluated by EU expert • The current statistical data on international migration will be identified by SIS and other related organizations with working party . • The coverage and reliability of statistics produced from selected sources, whether statistical or administrative will be evaluated by EU expert. • The work and residence permit systems/situations will be evaluated and improved • Collection of data, improvement of data quality will be identified by EU and local expert. • A system for the Turkey to collect existing national data will be set up by EU expert and local expert. • A current national methodologies will be compared with European Countries' practices by EU expert. • A quality and timeliness of data will be improved. • Report on data collection and data sources of international migration will be prepared by EU expert . • The coordination between SIS and other related Ministries especially with Ministry of Interior. 4.6. Statistics on Income and Living Conditions • An EU Expert will work on the improvement of survey methodology. • An EU Expert and a local expert will analyse time series data obtained by the four waves of the SILC survey. • SIS staff will participate to the training courses, conferences, seminars, workshops, working parties and study visits. 4.7. Improving the Social Protection Statistics Achieving to full coverage of social protection statistics • In order to achieve full coverage in social protection statistics, out of 85 000 NGOs, Ones which satisfy Social Protection will be identified by carrying out a survey. • After defining the NGOs that provide social protection, related data will be collected from these organisations.


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• There are 3227 municipalities in Turkey. Almost all municipalities satisfy Social Protection. According to the benefits that they satisfy, a simple questionnaire will be modified. Then, the data will be collected with this questionnaire from these municipalities. • In order to upgrade the skills of project’s staff, a study tour to a EU country which has a well organised system of Social Protection will be realized. Improving data quality and detail of data • In order to collect detail data according to the ESSPROSS Manual, a pilot study will be carried out in selected organisations in selected places. • Evaluation and results of pilot study will be reported. Adopting the revised ESSPROS Manual • When the ESSPROS Manual is revised, it will be adopted in the system of Turkey and data collection system will be revised according to the changes in the EU system if necessary. Creating a database for social protection statistics • In order to create sustainable system for national and international users, database for social protection statistics will be created. • The system for dissemination of data (exp. web-site) will be developed. Increasing the awareness of decision makers and skills of staff of the related organizations • Workshop will be conducted to share and discuss problems and their solutions to increase data quality. • An assessment report will be prepared including the evaluation and analysis of Social Protection Statistics 4.8. Continuing Vocational Training Survey • SIS Staff and EU Expert will select the pilot region. • EU Expert and SIS Staff will design the Sampling Frame for the selected region. Primary and Secondary Sampling Unit will be determined. • Organization of Field Survey for the selected region will be realized by EU Expert and SIS Staff. The design of questionnaires, training notes, handbooks and training of interviewers will be done by EU Expert. A pilot survey will be conducted by EU Expert and SIS Staff. • Implementation of Field Survey in the selected region will be done by SIS Staff. • SIS experts will participate in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. 4.9. Structure of Earnings Pilot Survey • The field study of the survey will be realized by contractor and will be supervised by SIS staff. • Necessary hardware will be purchased with the financial resources of the Project • Analysis of micro data, and preperation of the data to be sent to Eurostat will be done with the assistance of an EU expert • Quality Report requested by Eurostat will be prepared with the help of an EU expert • Analysis and comparison of aggregated SES results with other sources and testing the data quality will be completed with the help of a local expert • The results of the survey will be published by the SIS • SIS experts will participate in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties.


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5. Linked Activities: Applying modular surveys (ad-hoc modules) together with Labour Force Surveys These activities are completely linked with the Labour Force Pilot Survey (LFS) planned within the context of USST 1 Projects. After the primary targets of LFS projected within the context of USST 1 Project have been realized, other EU requirement that is the implementation of modular surveys would be carried out. Because, existing deficiencies on survey characteristics would be removed by the implementation of Pilot LFS in year 2004 and technical capacity of the related division would be improved by purchasing the equipments and getting consultancy on necessary subjects. In other words, the framework would be idealized by implementing the Pilot LFS. Establishing the labour cost index The pilot Labour Cost Survey to be realized within the framework of the USST Phase-I is completely linked with this Project. After the primary targets projected within the context of USST 1 Project have been realized, the EU requirements on labour cost index covered by this Project would be carried out. The results of Labour Cost Survey will be used as a benchmark for Labour Cost Index. In addition to this, improved technical capacity of the related division through purchasing the equipments and getting consultancy on necessary subjects would prepare a better environment for the establishment of LCI. Although feasibility studies on the data source for Labour Cost Index has not been completed yet, the results of short term business statistics are planned to be used as a data source for the time being. Therefore, projects related to short-term statistics (STS) are also linked to this project. Developing the system for Population and Housing There is no linked activity. Developing Administrative Registration System Additional project in USST phase I which is to develop Administrative Registration on Births, deaths and Cause of Death Statistics. Results of this project will provide to define further activities for the improvement of registration system. Establishing the System of Data Collection on Immigration and Asylum Statistics There is no linked activity. Statistics on Income and Living Conditions A sub-project on the “Statistics on Income and Living Conditions” was prepared for USST-I. The activities of the project are consultancy on the improvement of survey methodology, consultancy on the analysis of cross-sectional data, consultancy on the preparation of publications, consultancy on the preparation of quality reports and consultancy on imputation techniques especially for missing data and imputed rent and co-ordination of the participation of SIS staff in training, conferences and study visits of SIS staff in member state statistical offices. Improving the Social protection Statistics Under the PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001, the activities on defining related organizations, schemes, qualitative data collection and expenditures and receipts data collection from


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defined organization have been realized. USST2 project will be implemented based on outputs of the pilot project. Continuing Vocational Training Survey Sampling for continuing vocational training survey has begun in the concept of General Industry Census 2003. In order to determine sample size, we need the results of this census. Structure of earnings pilot survey The activities under this heading are simply the continuation of Project Component SOC 5 of the USST Phase I, whose specific objective is to start the preparation of the structure of Earnings Survey to be carried out for the reference year 2006 in 2007.


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Component 3: Improvement of Tourism Statistics 1. Objectives

1.1. Overall Objective(s):

To provide the required data on tourism statistics in harmonization with EU Directives

1.2. Project Purpose:

• To improve inbound and outbound tourism statistics

• To establish Tourism Satellite Acconts (TSA)

• To set up a methodology for accommodation statistics

• To implement a pilot survey on domestic tourism and prepare a report

• To set up a methodology on employment in tourism

2. Background and justification: Eurostat gives high importance to collect reliable and comparable statistics on tourism demand and supply. It is emphasized in the Council Directive 95/57/EC of 23 November 1995 and the Commission Decision of 9 December 1998 on the procedures for implementing the Council Directive 95/57/EC on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism. The Council Directive and the Commission Decision stated that demand tourism is composed of two main parts; domestic and outbound tourism. The General Directorate of Security at the gates collects the records on arrivals and departures for foreigners and citizens. SIS monthly has been publishing these records by nationality and by transportation way.

3. Results • A pilot survey on domestic tourism has been implemented and a report covering the evaluation of

the survey results has been received. • A new methodology for accomodation statistics has been set up. • Coverage for both inbound and outbound tourism statistics has been determined and methodology

has been improved. • Current situation on employment in tourism statistics has been analysed and methodology has

been set up. • The system of Tourism Satellite Accounts has been established.

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• EU experts will be used to prepare the methodology, questionnaire and sample design for domestic tourism.

• A pilot survey on domestic tourism will be implemented. • Results of the pilot survey on domestic tourism will be evaluated by EU experts. • EU expertise will be used for the assesment of current situation and preparation of methodology

for accomodation statistics • Methodology and coverage for both inbound and outbound tourism statistics will be improved by

EU expert and SIS staff. • Assesment of current situation, preparation of methodology and questionnaire design for

employment statistics on tourism will be done by EU expert. • Required data and methodology for establishing the system of Tourism Satellite Accounts will be

provided by EU expert and SIS staff. • A publication will be produced covering data for inbound, outbound and domestic tourism in

Turkey by SIS, with the assisstance of EU expert. • Selected SIS staff will participate in training courses, meetings, working parties and study visits. • Relevant documents will be translated into English and Turkish. • Required equipment for the project activities will be procured • Two meetings will be organised in Turkey. First meeting will be held for development an

implementation plan of tourism statistics with the related organisations and institutions. Second meeting will be held for discussions on the results of the project activities.

5. Linked activities In order to provide the detailed information about departures of foreigners and citizens residing abroad Inbound Tourism Survey has been implemented quarterly since 2001 with the collaboration of MED-TOUR. Outbound Tourism Survey has been launched quarterly since 2003 to give information about arrivals of citizens residing in Turkey. Both of the surveys have three parts; profile, accommodation and expenditure information and they have realized in cooperation with Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Central Bank. Shuttle Trade has also been applied quarterly to produce information on BOP tables that is prepared by Central Bank. Ministry of Culture and Tourism is collecting and producing accommodation statistics monthly in city level.


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Component 4: Improving the Business Statistics 1. Objectives 1.1 Overall Objective(s): The main purpose of this project is to produce business statistics in compliance with EU norms. 1.2. Project purpose: Improvement of FATS • To establish a data collection and dissemination system to enable SIS to produce statistical data for analyzing the impact of inward foreign affiliate activities on not only the financial aspects of the economy but also on jobs, trade, sales and industrial activities. Improvement of Business Services Statistics • To improve the statistical coverage of the business services sector. • To obtain harmonised statistics on the Business Services Statistics. Gathering and Updating Transport Statistics (maritime, road &air transport) • To adopt methodology (for air and sea) and data collection procedures on air, sea and road

transport statistics and to provide comparable and compliant data on carriage of goods and passengers by modes of transport in respect of EU requirements.

SBS Preliminary Data and Quality Aspects • To provide harmonized data on structural business statistics with EU standards. • To assess the quality of Structural Business Statistics produced in accordance with regulation (EC)

No. 58/97 at national level, • To use the administrative sources or short term statistics as a preliminary data. • To develop a methodology for using the administrative sources for the business statistics purposes

concerning units under the certain defined threshold instead of SBS survey, STS Remaining Indicators and Indicators of the Amendment Regulation • To provide sufficiently comparable data on short term statistics of Business Statistics and all of the indicators and variables requested by the short-term regulation and amendment regulation of short term statistics. PRODCOM • To harmonise PRODCOM statistics with EU requirements. Reform of the Energy Statistics System • To start providing data on Short-term Statistics of Energy (M-3) (Only when the annual

questionnaires are observed to be running well and to improve the format, completeness and timeliness of Short-term Statistics of Energy (M-1) as defined in related Decisions and Directives of EU).

• To develop data collection system on gas and electricity prices charged to the end-users (After the results, which are the proposal of new methodology for the data collection of gas and electricity prices to be applied on a trial basis approved by the Member States, are obtained).

2. Background and justifications Improvement of FATS Draft Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates is the background for inward FATS.


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The draft regulation has a gradual orientation, providing for a transitional period during which derogations can be requested. Additionally, the production of best estimates when data cannot be collected at a reasonable cost has been introduced. In particular the regulation has the following characteristics: • Covering inward statistics on foreign affiliates. • Output-orientation: There is no specification foreseen on how the data shall be collected. The compiling Member State or Candidate Country can decide whether to use existing data sources (SBS database) or a new survey. • Focus on foreign-controlled affiliates. The definition of control is according to the European System of National Accounts 1995. • Definitions of statistical units according to the Council Regulation (EEC) No. 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical unit for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community. • A recommendation manual is being developed in close co-operation with the Member States and Candidate Countries with supplementary guidance for all necessary items as possible data sources to be used, special cases, etc. • Pilot studies are foreseen for those characteristics for which a clear user need exists, but which are difficult to collect; such as: exports, imports, intra-group trade for inward statistics on foreign affiliates; the breakdown by size class for inward statistics on foreign affiliates. • The Statistical Programme Committee will be the regulatory committee. The European Central Bank is an observer in this Committee. Improvement of Business Services Statistics. Business Services Statistics is one of the Eurostat’s Unit D2 ongoing and planned Structural Business Statistics development projects. Gathering and Updating Transport Statistics (maritime, road &air transport) Transport is an integral part of the Treaty Establishing the European Community and Community Statistics on transport have played an essential role in implementing EU policies related to transport. Community transport statistics are required to support the Common Transport Policy and transport component of the Trans-European networks (TEN-T). Transport is also an important part of Community regional and environmental policies. Development and harmonization studies on transport statistics have been started with Med –Trans Project which was carried out from 1997 to 2002. Activities related to the project were realized during the terms of the expert mission. The content of air transport statistics is based on data collected in the frame of the EU air transport Regulation (“Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air”). The Commission requires Community statistics on the transport of passengers, goods and postal activities by air in order to monitor the aviation sector and the impact of related policies. In addition the produced information is aimed to support the development of new policies at Community level. General Directorate of State Airports (GDSA) is responsible for compiling data on air transport. General Directorate of State Airports can supply only data for freight and passenger movements based on airport in accordance with the Regulation. The other two databases could not be provided. The content of sea transport statistics is based on data collected in the frame of the EU sea Directive (“Council Directive 95/64/EC 08.12.1995 on the statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea”). The Commission requires Community statistics on the transport of goods and passengers by sea in order to monitor the maritime sector and the impact of maritime policies especially on short-sea shipping. Under Secretariat of Maritime Affairs (UMA) is responsible for


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compiling data on sea transport. New software that runs via internet has been developed by UMA to meet its own needs. This new system has been used by all port authorities since July 2003. Data produced by UMA are not in full compliance with EU requirements. The basic source of data, which is used to produce sea transport statistics, is sea going license given by UMA for each ship arrival and departure. The content of road transport statistics is based on data collected in the frame of the EU Regulation (“Council Regulation No 1172/98/EC on statistics on the carriage of goods by road.). The Commission requires Community Statistics on transport of goods by road in order to monitor the road transport sector and the impact of transport policies, and to support the development of new measures, in the framework of the Common Transport Policy and Trans European Networks (TEN-T). There is also a strong demand for Community road transport statistics from Member States and from professional organizations and research institutes concerned with transport policy. General Directorate of Security Affairs (GDSEA) is responsible for the vehicle registers. Due to the lack of reliable vehicle registers, data on carriage of goods by road could not be produced until today. Methodology concerning the carriage of goods by road will be adapted at the end of the USST I. In this project, studies on the vehicle register will be realized cooperation with GDSEA. SBS Preliminary Data and Quality Aspects Administrative sources are not used for business statistics purposes except for establishing and updating of the business register. Registers held by the Ministry of Finance have been used to establish the Business Registers. Short Term Statistics on manufacturing industry, construction and mining-quarrying sectors are available. For the other sectors, it has not been produced yet. STS Remaining Indicators and Indicators of the Amendment Regulation Data produced by SIS are not in full compliance with EU requirements. Different types of business statistics are carried out on a monthly and quarterly basis in Turkey. However, they do not conform to the EU regulation on short-term statistics. The statistical unit observed is the establishment. Most of the variables required are covered, the definitions of which are compliant. The coverage of the sectors needs also to be verified. In future NACE Rev. 1 needs to be introduced. In order to comply with the required quality criteria, sampling methods needs to be applied. Currently, the manufactory survey covers establishments, which count for 90 % of the total value, added of the manufacturing industry. PRODCOM Data produced by SIS are not in full compliance with EU requirements. In others words, they do not conform to the regulation on PRODCOM statistics. SIS have been used the national product classification based on ISIC Rev.2 until 1997 and ISIC Rev.3, a national version of ISIC Rev.3 (referred to as NC-97 and was directly comparable with ISIC Rev.3) between the years of 1997 and 2001. After 2002 PRODCOM has been used. 2002 PRODCOM List and products which are produced in Turkey were included and that list was used in the survey. There were three different - monthly, quarterly and annual -surveys related to PRODCOM list. With these survey data on production and consumption at product level were collected. Reform of the Energy Statistics System Data produced by SIS are not in full compliance with EU requirements. Besides this some of the indicators are not produced. Ensuring the production of M-3 data is in the context of USST-II phase, improvement of annual statistics is being covered in USST-I phase. Improvement of data collection system for gas and electricity prices as defined by the Council Directive Directive No: 90/377 is covered in USST Pragramme phase I. In phase II, implementation of new methodology for gas and electricity prices will be achieved.


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Legislative basis Commission Decision No: 2390/96/ECSC of 16/12/96: OJ: L326 of 17/12/96, *repealing decision 91/612 Council Directive No: 96/92/EC of 19 /12/96: OJ: L027 of 30 /01/ 97, *concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity Council Directive No: 90/377/EEC of 17 /07/90 Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users 3. Results 3.1. Improvement of FATS • Address frame for Inward FATS statistics was set up by using Business Registers, • The system for maintaining the address frame was set up, • The SBS sample was done in the near future on the basis of two sub-frames of the SBS enterprise

population, One could be sub-frame for foreign-controlled enterprises and the other one could be for domestically-controlled companies.

• Results of both sub-samples were combined to arrive at the total estimate for SBS. • The results of the grossed-up outcome of the sub-sample for foreign-controlled enterprises were

used for the estimate of Inward FATS variables for the total of the frame. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties was realized. 3.2.Improvement of Business Services Statistics. • Methodology was adopted. • The new questionnaires were designed for the implementation. • Technical assistance was provided for the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and applying

the new methodology and the new sample size. • Pilot survey to test the new methodologies was conducted. • Harmonization of NACE and PRODCOM was realised. • New data collection systems such as Web, EDI etc. were developed to improve data quality. • Data comparison and checking system were improved. • All requested variables were produced for every sector. 3.3. Gathering and Updating Transport Statistics (maritime, road &air transport) Air Transport Statistics • Methodology on the relevant data sets was adopted. • A feasibility report was prepared as a result of analysis of the current situation on the data

availability related to flight stage database and flight origin/destination database. • SIS and GDSA staffs were well trained by participating study visits and working parties. • Available harmonized statistics were sent by using the data transmission tolls, which are suggested

by Eurostat. Sea Transport Statistics • Methodology on the relevant data sets was adopted. • Harmonized sea statistics was produced by UMA. • SIS and UMA staffs were well trained by participating study visits and working parties. • Available harmonized statistics were sent by using the data transmission tolls which are suggested

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Statistics on carriage of goods by road • Harmonized variables were produced and datasets was prepared. • SIS and GDSEA staffs were well trained by participating study visits and working parties. • Available harmonized statistics were sent by using the data transmission tolls, which are suggested

by Eurostat. 3.4. SBS Preliminary Data and Quality Aspects • Methodology was adapted to produce the quality reports. Data quality and statistical compliance

was constantly monitored and any revisions were immediately reflected on the methodology. • Methodology for using administrative sources for the business statistics purposes was adapted. • Compiled data were proved to be compliant with SBS provisions. If there is consistency with the

administrative records this administrative source will be used for units under the defined threshold instead of survey data and also for the preliminary data.

• SIS staffs were well trained by participating study visits and working parties. • Available harmonized statistics were sent by using the data transmission tolls, which are suggested

by Eurostat. 3.5. STS Remaining Indicators and Indicators of the Amendment Regulation • Methodology of related STS indicators was adapted. • If needed, the new questionnaires were designed for the implementation. • Technical assistance was provided for the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and applying

the new methodology and the new sample size. • Pilot survey to test the new methodologies was conducted. . • Harmonization of NACE and PRODCOM was realised. • Weighting system of indexes was adapted. • New data collection systems such as Web, EDI etc. were developed to improve data quality, • Data comparison and checking system were improved. • All requested indexes and variables were produced for each sector. • STS database was set up. 3.6. PRODCOM • The questionnaires were designed for the implementation. • Technical assistance was taken to the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and applying the

new methodology and the new sample size. • Harmonization of NACE, CPA and PRODCOM Lists was realised. • Subject of the confidentiality was analyzed. • Harmonization of PRODCOM Lists with national product classifications and external trade

classification (CN) were established. • To improve data quality, new data collection system such as Web, EDI etc. were developed. • Data comparison and checking system were improved. • Link between PRODCOM statistics and production indices were established. • PRODCOM database were set up. Reform of the Energy Statistics System

• Remaining problems on coverage, timeliness, classification and coordination in annual energy statistics were solved

• Related EU regulations and methodology for annual statistics were fully implemented. By this way, necessary technical and methodological background is set up to start producing M-3 data.

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• Format, completeness and timeliness of M-1 data were ensured in coordination with data producing public authorities (Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Electricity Distribution Company etc.)

• New methodology for gas and electricity prices was implemented. • SIS experts participated in training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties was realized. 4. Activities (including Means) Improvement of FATS Address frame for Inward FATS statistics will be set up by using Business Registers, The system for maintaining the address frame will be set up, The SBS sample will be done in the near future on the basis of two sub-frames of the SBS

enterprise population, One could be sub-frame for foreign-controlled enterprises and the other one could be for domestically-controlled companies. Results of both sub-samples will be combined to arrive at the total estimate for SBS. The results of the grossed-up outcome of the sub-sample for foreign-controlled enterprises

will be used for the estimate of Inward FATS variables for the total of the frame. Inward FATS variables will be obtained from SBS database. Turkish experts will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences,

local meetings etc. Improvement of Business Services Statistics. Methodology will be adapted. The new questionnaires will be designed for the implementation. Technical assistance will be taken to the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and

applying the new methodology and the new sample size. Pilot survey to test the new methodologies will be conducted. . Harmonization of NACE and PRODCOM will be realised. To improve data quality, new data collection system such as Web, EDI etc. will be developed. Data comparison and checking system will be improved. All requested variables will be produced for every sector.

Gathering and Updating Transport Statistics (maritime, road &air transport) Air Transport Statistics Technical support (for establishing methodology and data sets required by EU Regulation)

will be provided to the GDSA, which is the main source of air transport data. The general evaluation of the data availability related to flight stage database and flight

origin/destination database will be determined by EU and Local expert. Turkish experts will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences,

local meetings etc. Sea Transport Statistics Technical support (for establishing methodology and data sets required by EU Directive) will

be provided to the UMA, which is the main source of sea transport data. Classification (NSTR) and codes (MCA, LOCODE, cargo codes etc.) will be adopted into

software, which is developed for compiling sea data by UMA. New software will be developed to improve data quality. To ensure that the data produced are

of high quality, EU and Local expert will draw up a set of rules for checking the data in the relevant data sets and a series of cross tests between the relevant data sets. Turkish experts will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences,

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Statistics on carriage of goods by road Technical assistance will be provided for the test survey. The test survey will be organized. The software will be developed to input and analyze the data. Datasets required by the regulation will be prepared Results of the test survey will be reported. Turkish experts will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences,

local meetings etc. SBS Preliminary Data and Quality Aspects Information for characteristics, levels and series specified in the related regulation shall be

reported, in accordance with any derogation, which may have been conceded for the reference year. Some quality indicators on SBS will be reported. Reports regarding the survey strategy and the principal activity will be prepared as mentioned

in the regulation. All the administrative sources will be examined carefully and decided which sources suitable

for the business statistics purposes. All necessary arrangements for using the administrative records will be made with holders of

administrative records. The test studies will be organized to the find most suitable administrative records. The most appropriate method to produce the preliminary data will be examined (STS data,

Administrative records, etc.). Technical assistance will be provided for using these sources. The software will be developed to analyze the data.

STS Remaining Indicators and Indicators of the Amendment Regulation Methodology of related STS indicators will be adapted. If needed, the new questionnaires will be designed for the implementation. Technical assistance will be provided for the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and

applying the new methodology and the new sample size. Pilot survey to test the new methodologies will be conducted. . Harmonization of NACE and PRODCOM will be realised. Weighting system of indexes will be adapted. To improve data quality, new data collection system such as Web, EDI etc. will be developed. Data comparison and checking system will be improved. All requested indexes and variables will be produced for every sector. STS database will be set up.

PRODCOM If needed, the questionnaires will be designed for the implementation. Technical assistance will be provided for the necessary preparations for a pilot survey and

applying the new methodology and the new sample size. Harmonization of NACE, CPA and PRODCOM Lists will be realised. Subject of the confidentiality will be analyzed. Harmonization of PRODCOM Lists with national product classifications and external trade

classification (CN) will be established. To improve data quality, new data collection system such as Web, EDI etc. will be developed. Data comparison and checking system will be improved. Link between PRODCOM statistics and production indices will be established. PRODCOM database will be set up.

Reform of the Energy Statistics System

• Methodology of related short-term indicators will be adapted. • New questionnaires will be designed for the implementation, if it is required.


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• Technical assistance will be taken to the necessary preparations for the implementation of methodologies for annual and short-term energy statistics, gas and electricity prices

• Harmonization of NACE Rev.1.1 will be realised. • Gas and electricity prices data collection system will be revised in line with the requirements

of the new methodology. • Turkish experts will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences,

local meetings etc. And required equipment such as computer, laptop, printers, server etc will be purchased.

• Technical assistance by SIS experts will be given to the data producing public authorities such as Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Electricity Distribution Company for the adaptation of these authorities to the new methodology.

5. Linked activities Improvement of FATS The Business Register (BR) of the SIS forms the basis for many surveys and is also of relevance for the frame of Inward FATS. A General Census of Business (GCB) benchmark is held every 10 years (since 1927). The most recent benchmark regarded the year 2002. In the register survey form for 2002, some adaptations were made such as: (i) Does your company have foreign capital? and (ii) Does your company have any capital abroad ? Information from these questions can be of relevance for setting up a frame as a first step for among others Inward FATS and/or as one of the sources of maintenance of the frame concerned. Registers of the treasury may be input to use, considering that any enterprise with any foreign share active in the national economy is registered there. Although the data available is strictly financial, addresses and quantity of enterprises provide useful data. There are three institutions which are interested in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). These are;

a. Undersecretariat of Treasury (Investment permission system (1954 - June 2003) b. Central Bank (FDI survey) c. State Institute of Statistics (2002 General Census of Business)

The register sources for setting up and maintaining the frame for Inward FATS are: • The BR was constituted according to GCB and Ministry of Finance registers. So, GCB is in principle the first step for setting up the frame for Inward FATS. Between benchmark dates, the BR can be only of use if up-date information on the foreign participation in the share capital of companies registered is known. The latter issue would be possible if a one-page register survey for newcomers would be implemented. Such a one-page register survey should then also require information on foreign participation in the share capital as well as on the country of domicile of foreign owners. • Information from the Trade Register Offices (to be provided to the Undersecretariat of Treasury) regarding notifications by companies concerned on new foreign direct investment relationships and related transactions. • SBS survey as source of register information concerning enterprises surveyed on behalf of both the BR and the Inward FATS frame. The SBS survey namely includes some questions regarding the up-date of register data of the respondent, also relating to the issue of foreign participation in the share capital. • Ministry of Finance register of enterprises on behalf of tax declarations. Newly founded companies have to register for the latter purpose. If in future information would be required also on the possible existence of a foreign participation in the share capital as well, this database could be of use for maintenance of the Inward FATS frame. • Treasury on the basis of information from notary offices regarding transactions on foreign participations in existing domestic companies. • FDI reporting system can be a source for the Inward FATS frame when both existing enterprises acquire foreign ownership and new direct investment enterprises are set up.


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So, it is obvious that the production of FATS statistics depends on the frame of the BR. Improvement of Business Services Statistics Regarding business statistics setting up the Turkish Business Register, short-term, structural business, PRODCOM, transport statistics are still ongoing projects. A project on FATS is also submitted. Business services has links with Business Register, short-term, structural business statistics and FATS. Gathering and Updating Transport Statistics (maritime, road &air transport) It is obvious that development of transport statistics depends on the studies which are realized by GDSA, UMA and GDSEA. In this context, a new software project is carried out by GDSA to develop available air transport statistics and to start producing the other two datasets. It is expected to obtain (on flight origin/destination) data harmonized with EU terminology depending on realization of that project. Improvement of vehicle register that is hold by GDSEA will be the most important input for this project. SBS Preliminary Data and Quality Aspects The Ministry of Finance and other organizations provide administrative records. Development of these sources depends on the studies, which are realized by these organizations. Compiled data for Short Term Statistics is the most important source as a preliminary data. STS Remaining Indicators and Indicators of the Amendment Regulation Some of the variables will be started to produce in the USST1 project but calculation of the indexes is done in USST2. PRODCOM Harmonization of PRODCOM statistics with EU requirements as coverage and statistical units will have been covered in USST 1. Implementation of regulation, database, confidentiality issue and its quality requirements will be included in USST2.

Reform of the Energy Statistics System Improvement of data collection system for gas and electricity prices as defined by the Council Directive Directive No: 90/377 is covered in USST Pragramme phase I.


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Component 5: Reform of the Agricultural Statistics System 1. Objectives

1.1 Overall Objective(s): To provide agricultural statistics harmonized with Acquis Communautaire. 1.2 Project Purpose: • To adopt methodology and survey procedures related with agricultural statistics, • To calculate supply balance sheets from some production statistics, • To introduce economic accounts for agriculture on a trial basis, • To improve animal production statistics (egg. crop, meat, milk and dairy products), to refine

livestock statistics, including some agro-industry statistics, • To calculate Standard Gross Margins which are important for the development of FADN, to lead

to agricultural accounts, to effective price statistics and development of accounting tables, • To prepare the preliminary works on agri-environmental statistics, • To improve forestry statistics, • To prepare the preliminary works on 2010/2011 Farm Structure Census, • To produce comparable land use/cover statistics according to EU requirements for a selected

region in Turkey, • To improve some price statistics (producer price).

2. Background and justification: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pays an essential role in the economic development of the Member States of the European Union. It is aimed at decreasing structural disparities amongst Member States and regions by deploying large monetary flows. It supports i.e. the adjustment of agricultural structures, the improvement of structural efficiency of holdings, the improvement of the quality of agricultural outputs and the development of agricultural infrastructure. The transformation of the objectives of the CAP requires a comprehensive and well developed agricultural information system, which constitutes a reliable information basis for any decision making process in this context. To prepare Candidate Countries for its accession to the European Union they need to comply fully with the Acquis Communautaire. This is a real challenge for both, for the Candidate Countries and Member States respective EC institutions dealing with specific areas of the Acquis Communautaire. Eurostat initiated a comprehensive co-operation programme to bring agricultural statistics of Candidate Countries quickly in line with EU requirements. Land cover and land use are of high importance in the definition and evaluation of common policies e.g. on the environment, agriculture, transport and especially in the integration of those policies in a comprehensive assessment and planning. SIS has been conducting CORINE Project to harmonize Turkish land use/land cover statistics with EU. This project will be completed end of the 2004. SIS also conducted another project named Estimation of Cereal Acreages by RS and GIS technologies. This project was implemented between the years 1992-1998. Although the LUCAS Survey is under development in EU Member States, SIS has experienced staff and capable technical infrastructure to implement LUCAS Survey under USST II phase.

There are no Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) according to the Eurostat Methodology in Turkey, yet. Gross National Product by kind of activity is computed. The agricultural sector covers crop products, livestock products, and the forestry and fishery sectors. The value added in agriculture


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is grouped according to farming, livestock, fishery and forestry activities. The quarterly estimates are based on the surveys of “Quarterly Production of Field Crops”, “Quarterly Production of Fruits” and “Quarterly Production of Vegetables”.

Supply Balance Sheets were prepared for the years 1989 and 1995 only in SIS. Supply Balance Sheets shall provide an analysis of the technical conversion factors of agricultural products and the product balances in Turkey. For 1989 and 1995, the consumption of each product was calculated separately by determining loss rates occurred within the processing stages.

By calculation of the coefficients from the existing surveys data, some variables on animal production such as number of animals milked, number of animals shorn, milk production meat production etc. are produced in SIS.

Forestry Statistics are produced by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. There is no centralized system for compilation of information and an adequate structuring thereof. This compiling process is carried out by each unit in the formats that are changed when necessary and on various bases.

Agricultural price statistics cover the prices received by the farmer (PRF) for agricultural commodities at the point of sale and the prices paid by farmers (PPF) for inputs. Prices are collected on a monthly basis from bazaars within 860 districts. The index of prices received by farmers and the index of prices paid by farmers have been calculated with base 1994=100.

Legislative basis In the recent years Eurostat could establish a comprehensive system of legal acts, which ensures to a certain extend the compilation of required data in a harmonized way. The EU statistical requirements on agricultural statistics to be adopted by Candidate Countries consist of three main elements: Community legislation (e.g. structure of agricultural holdings, crop and animal production) Gentlemen’s agreements (e.g. agro-monetary statistics, supply balance sheets) Documentation as there are methodological handbooks, guidelines, reports from Member States etc. Given the high number of different legal acts relating to agricultural statistics and given the complexity of agricultural statistics, Turkey will have to follow a staged approach. Legal acts referring to the structure of agricultural holdings and to agricultural output data will have to be applied first, since they constitute an important basis for other agricultural statistics. Main EU regulations and directives to be followed are as follows: • Council Regulation No: 571/88/EEC of 29/02/88: OJ: L056 of 02/03/88,

organisation of community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings between 1988 and 1997, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) no 2467/96 of 17/12/96. Commission Regulation No: 143/2002/EC of 24/01/02: OJ: L 024 of 26/01/02, amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88 in view of the organisation of the Community surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings in 2003, 2005. Commission Regulation No: 1444/2002/EC of 24/07/02: OJ: L 216 of 12/08/02, amending Commission Decision 2000/115/EC relating to the definitions of the characteristics, the exceptions to the definitions and the regions and districts regarding the surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings. Commission Regulation No: 68/2003/EC of 16/01/03: OJ: L 12 of 17/01/03, concerning the use of information from sources other than statistical surveys and the time limits for the communication of the results for the 2003 survey on the structure of agricultural holdings.

• Council Directive No: 96/16/EC of 19/03/96: OJ: L078 of 28/03/96, statistical surveys of milk and milk products. Commission Decision No: 97/80/EC of 18/12/96: OJ: L024 of 25/01/97, implementation of Council Dir. 96/16 on statistical surveys of milk and


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milk products. Commission Decision No: 98/325/EC of 24/04/98: OJ: L142 of 14/05/98, on the 1998 work program relating to the protein content of the main milk products. Council Decision No: 98/582/EC of 06/10/98: OJ: L281 of 17/10/98, amending Commission Decision 97/80/EC laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products. Commission Decision No: 309/1999/EC of 23/04/99: OJ: L119 of 07/05/99, on the 1999 work programme relating to the protein content of the milk products. Parliament and Council Directive No: 2003/107/EC of 05/12/03: OJ: L7 of 13/01/04, amending Council Directive 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products.

• Council Regulation No: 2782/75/EEC of 29/10/75: OJ: L282 of 01/11/75, production an marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks Comments: not under the responsibility of Eurostat, but DG AGRI. Council Regulation No: 2916/95/EC of 21/12/94: OJ: L305 of 19/12/95, concerning the common organization of the markets in poultry meat and eggs and the common system of trade for ovalbumin and lactalbumin.

• Council Directive No: 93/24/EEC of 01/06/93: OJ: L149 of 21/06/93, statistical surveys to be carried out on bovine animal production, Directive as amended by the 1994 Act of Accession. Council Directive No: 93/25/EEC of 01/06/93: OJ: L149 of 21/06/93, statistical surveys to be carried out on sheep and goat stocks, Directive as amended by the 1994 Act of Accession. Commission Decision No: 2003/597/EC of 04/08/03: OJ: L203 of 12/08/03, laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC as regards the statistical surveys on sheep and goat population and production.

• Council Regulation No: 837/90/EEC of 26/03/90: OJ: L088 of 03/04/90, concerning statistical information to be supplied by the member states on cereals production. Council Regulation No: 959/93/EEC of 05/04/93: OJ: L098 of 24/04/93, concerning statistical information to be supplied by member states on crop products other than cereals. Commission Regulation No: 2197/95/EC of 18/09/95: OJ: L221 of 19/09/95, and No 296/20003/EC of 17.02.03: OJ. L43 of 18.02.03, amending the annexes to Council Regulations 837/90 and 959/93 concerning statistics to be supplied by the Member States on cereal production and 959/93 concerning statistical information to be supplied by Member States on crop products other then cereals.

• Council Regulation No: 3528/86 of 17/11/86: OJ: L326 of 21/11/86, on the protection of the Community's forests against atmospheric pollution. Council Regulation No: 1615/89/EEC of 29/05/89: OJ: L165 of 15/06/89, establishing European forestry information and communication system (efics). Council Regulation No: 2158/92 of 23/07/92: OJ: L217 of 30/07/92, on protection of the Community's forests against fire. Council Resolution of 15/12/98: OJ: C056 of 26/02/99, on a forestry strategy for the European Union.

• Parliament and Council Regulation No: 138/2004/EC of 05/12/03: OJ: L33 of 05/02/04, on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community.

• Parliament and Council Decision No: 1445/2000/EC of 22/05/00: OJ: L163 of 04/07/00, on the application of aerial-survey and remote-sensing techniques to the agricultural statistics for 1999 to 2003. Parliament and Council Decision No: 2066/2003/EC of 10/11/03: OJ: L309 of 26/11/03, on the continued application of aerial-survey and remote-sensing techniques to the agricultural statistics for 2004 to 2007 and amending Decision 1445/2000/EC.

3. Results

3.1. Improvement of Animal Production Statistics • The milk, meat and egg statistics legislation has been examined for the application. • The work has been started about providing animal production statistics including some agro-

industry statistics by the pilot surveys. • Harmonized milk, meat and egg statistics were obtained in selected regions. • The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities.

Computers and other equipments have been acquired and installed. • SIS staff working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above

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3.2. Calculation of Supply Balance Sheets • The existing work of SIS about supply sheets, which was for the years 1989 and 1995, has been

examined as a basis for the necessary work carried on about supply balance sheets. • The coefficients needed for the supply sheets have been determined. • Crop losses of agricultural crop on the basis of crop at before harvest, during harvest and after

harvest, production estimates have been calculated • The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities.

Computers and other equipments have been acquired and installed. • SIS staffs working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above

by participating study visits, working parties, etc. 3.3. Estimation of Economic Accounts for Agriculture • A first preliminary base for constitution of economic agricultural accounts has been established. • A pilot survey in selected regions has been conducted. • Harmonized economic indicators have been obtained by the pilot survey. • The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities.


by participating study visits, working parties, etc. 3.4. Improvement of Forestry Statistics • Forestry Statistics have been produced by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. By

redesigning of new questionnaires according to EU requirements, harmonized forestry statistics have been obtained.

• There has been a close co-operation with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in methodological subjects for compilation of the needed variables.

• There has been co-operation with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for improving of forestry statistics.

• SIS staffs working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above by participating study visits, working parties, etc. Also, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Staff have been well trained on Forestry Statistics by participating training facilities, local events etc.

3.5. Determination of Typology of Agricultural Holdings • Standard Gross Margins (SGM) coefficients have been calculated. • Agricultural holdings have been classified according to their type of farming. • The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities.


by participating study visits, working parties, etc. 3.6. Preparatory Works for Agri-Enviromental Statistics • The Agri-Enviromental indicators have been analysed from existing surveys. • The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities.

Computers and other equipments have been acquired and installed. • SIS staff working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above

by participating study visits, working parties, etc. 3.7. Preparation of the Farm Structure Census (2010/2011) • The new questionnaire has been achieved. • Local events have been realized. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Staff and SIS and

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• The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities. Computers and other equipments have been acquired and installed.

• SIS staffs working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above by participating study visits, working parties, etc.

3.8. Implementation of LUCAS • The requirements for implementing LUCAS for whole Turkey have been achieved. • Comparable data set has been obtained in a selected region for the usual agricultural domain but

also the aspects linked with environment, multi-functionality, landscape and sustainable development.

• Harmonized agricultural, landuse/landcover, environment etc. statistics have been obtained. • A grid-based survey has been tested for agricultural statistical system. • SIS staffs working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above

by participating study visits, working parties, etc. • Equipments and materials related to the project have been purchased and installed. 3.9. Improvement of Agricultural Price Statistics • A comprehensive analysis of the current situation (prices and methodology of indices) focusing of

EU compliance has been accomplished. • The questionnaires for the compilation of price statistics in compliance with EU requirements

have been redesigned.

• The new rebased price indices (output and input) have been calculated.

• The Agricultural Statistics Department in SIS has been equipped with all necessary facilities. Computers and other equipments have been acquired and installed.

• SIS staffs working on agricultural sector have been well trained on the subjects mentioned above by participating study visits, working parties, etc.

4. Activities (Including Means) 4.1. Improvement of Animal Production Statistics • EU and local experts will determine the methodologies for milk, meat and egg statistics, including

some agro-industry statistics. • A pilot survey will be implemented for meat statistics. • A pilot survey will be implemented for milk statistics. • A pilot survey will be implemented for egg statistics. • The design of questionnaires for meat, milk and egg statistics, training notes, handbooks necessary

for the surveys will be prepared by EU and Local Experts. And training of surveyors will be realized in collaboration with SIS Staff and the Experts.

• Evaluation of the survey results will be done by the help of EU and Local Experts. • Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural

Department in SIS shall be equipped appropriately to be able to ensure sufficient working capacity and to support efficient and qualitatively high level data processing and analyses.

• SIS Staff will be trained by participating training courses, study visits, workshops, and working parties.

4.2. Calculation of Supply Balance Sheets • Technical assistance supported by a local expert and an EU expert as well will be used for

calculation of crop losses on the basis of crops and developing a methodology to calculate crop losses of each crop at pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting periods.


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• The design of questionnaires for crop losses, training notes, handbooks will be done by EU and Local Experts. And training of surveyors will be realized in collaboration with SIS Staff and the Experts.

• EU experts and local experts will support the methodology and constitution of the needed coefficients for supply balance sheets.

• Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural Department in SIS shall be equipped appropriately to be able to ensure sufficient working capacity and to support efficient and qualitatively high level data processing and analyses.


4.3. Calculation of Economic Accounts for Agriculture • EU experts and local experts will be required for a first preliminary basis for establishment of

economic agricultural accounts. • A regional test survey will be implemented for a first preliminary basis for establishment of

economic agricultural accounts including crop yields and losses. • The design of questionnaires for agricultural economic accounts, training notes, handbooks will be

prepared by EU and Local Experts. And training of surveyors will be realized in collaboration with SIS Staff and the Experts.

• Evaluation of the test survey results will be done by the help of EU and Local Experts. • Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural



4.4. Improvement of Forestry Statistics • The legislation/documents for forestry statistics will be examined and availability of the variables

will be discussed with EU expert and local expert and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. • There will be a work for establishment of a centralised statistical system in the ministry connected

with its regional directorates for providing updated data. • SIS and Ministry of Environment and Forestry Staff will be trained by participating training

courses, study visits, workshops, working parties, local events. 4.5. Determination of Typology of Agricultural Holdings • EU expert and a local expert will be required for the assessment of current surveys and preparation

of the methodology for SGM and typology of agricultural holdings. • Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural



4.6. Preparatory Works for Agri-Enviromental Statistics • The Agri-Enviromental indicators will be analysed from existing surveys. An EU expert and a

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• Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural Department in SIS shall be equipped appropriately to be able to ensure sufficient working capacity and to support efficient and qualitatively high level data processing and analyses.


4.7. Preparation of the Farm Structure Census (2010/2011) • An EU expert will assess current surveys and determination of the methodology. • The new questionnaire will be redesigned. EU and Local Experts will do the design of

questionnaires. • Preparation of Training notes, handbooks will be done by EU and Local Experts. • Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural



4.8. Implementation of LUCAS • SIS Staff and EU Expert will select a pilot region by using as a base map of Turkey Land use/

Land cover map. • EU Expert and SIS Staff will design the sampling plan for the selected region. Primary and

secondary sampling units will be determined. • Aerial photographs or high-resolution satellite images belonging to Primary Sampling Units

should be supplied before the survey. • The EU Expert and SIS Staff will organize a Field Survey for the selected region. The design of

questionnaires, training notes, handbooks will be prepared by the EU Expert. • Training of surveyors will be realized in collaboration with SIS Staff and the Experts. • The Field Survey in the selected region will be implemented. • Evaluation of the survey results will be done by the help of EU Experts. • SIS Staff will be trained by participating training courses, study visits, workshops, and working

parties. 4.9. Improvement of Agricultural Price Statistics • EU expert will be required for designing of questionnaire forms that will enable the collection of

data to calculate farm price indices. • Technical assistance will be demanded a review the method about calculation of the indices. • Technical infrastructure at Agricultural Department in SIS will be developed. Agricultural



5. Linked activities Under USST II Phase, there is no linked activity with USST I. However, establishment and updating of statistical farm register is of fundamental importance to a number of agricultural statistics in USST phase II and I. Moreover, the results of USST phase II will be the complement of the new Agricultural Statistical System in phase I. All activities, which will take part in USST phase II, will be formed by using farm register, administrative registers and surveys in order to realize the changes, obtain tools and keep the data up-to-date for planning agricultural developments.


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Component 6: Enhancement of Environmental Statistics Capacity 1. Objectives

1.1.Overall Objective(s): To provide environmental statistics which are harmonized with Acquis Communautaire.

1.2.Project Purpose: • To develop the existing environmental statistics in compliance with EU statistical norms and

standards in order to produce comparable and reliable regular data. • To develop the data collection methodology (design of survey sampling, defining data sources

etc.) for the selected environmental topics such as water supply, wastewater, waste, environmental expenditures, environmental accounting, air emissions, etc.

1. Background and justification:

SIS has been dealing with the environmental statistics according to framework of the OECD core set of environmental data and indicators since 1990. All data produced in environmental statistics are harmonized with OECD/EUROSTAT definitions and classifications. Among the environmental topics waste, water supply and treatment, wastewater discharges and treatment, estimation of air emissions and environmental protection expenditures are being handled as priority topics. Most of the data collection activities are financed as an investment project by the State Planning Organisation. Data related to municipal solid waste collection and disposal, and industrial solid waste generation, recycling/reuse and disposal have been collected via surveys applied to municipalities and industrial establishments since 1994 and 1992 respectively. Waste classification of ECE has been considered for 2000 for industrial establishments, but starting from 2004 European Waste Catalogue will be considered according to the Regulation on Waste Statistics, which was enacted in 2002. Data on municipal water supply and treatment, municipal wastewater collection, treatment and discharge, industrial water supply, consumption and industrial wastewater treatment and discharge have been collected via surveys since 1994. Also data on public irrigation water and rural drinking water abstraction had been collected from the registers of related organizations only for 1998. Environmental expenditure data have been collected from industrial establishments, municipalities, and governmental organizations since 1997 via surveys. CEPA (Classification of Environmental Protection Activities) has been used for the classification of environmental activities. Results of the surveys for each environmental topic are published and disseminated as press bulletins after evaluation. All the data related with environmental topics that are dealt with has been stored in MS Access database files. There exist Geographical Information System software Arc-Info and Arc View and are used in evaluation of the data spatially. In addition, a professional database software ORACLE is also available in environmental unit but not used yet.

Turkey is also one of the partners of MED-Env project, which aims to improve statistical infrastructure of environmental statistics of Mediterranean countries, which are non-member of EU. First phase of the project was held between 1999-2003 and priority topics waste, water and land use were tackled. Second phase of the project has started in 2003 and air emissions, bio-diversity and sustainable development indicators are the priority topics in this phase. This project is a good opportunity for exchange of experience and getting information about the activities in other countries in this field.


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There were a lot of difficulties in assessing all water abstractions considering all sectors including self supply and balancing abstraction with water resources and consumption. In order to overcome the difficulties faced with, consultancy for completing the water accounting study and establishment of a methodology for physical environmental accounting according to SEEA framework was provided within the MED-Env project. During this mission existing data and all the studies carried out in the context of water statistics and water accounting and also auxiliary data that have been collected by other studies (like population census, household income and expenditure survey etc.) were carefully evaluated and SEEA tables for national level were completed in physical means. Expenditure accounting is also an important issue for Turkey since there is a lot of expenditure data that can be used in SERIEE type of accounting preparation.

SIS, as a member of the Climate Change Coordination Committee Technical Working Group, is the responsible organization for estimation of greenhouse gases. Emissions have been estimated according to the tier 1 approach in IPCC Methodology and CORINAIR since 1997. Some topics have not been calculated yet such as emissions from production of halons (HFCs and PFCs) and hexafluoride, and solvent use. But it is important to clarify estimation methodologies and complete emission estimations in these areas.

Emissions from fuel combustion have been estimated for the years between 1970 and 2002 by using fuel consumption data and average emission factors offered in the IPCC Guidelines. Fuel consumption data are obtained from energy balance sheets of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy. These sheets provide fuel consumption data for only energy, industry, transportation and others in detail. Legislative basis • EU Sustainable Development Strategy

• Sixth EU Environmental Action Programme

• Conclusions of the Cardiff, Vienna, Helsinki, Lisbon, Gothenburg and Stockholm Summits

• Commission Communication No: COM (2002) 82 final of 13/02/2002 ”Towards a global partnership for sustainable development”

• Commission Communication No: COM (2001) 264 final of 15/05/2001 "A Sustainable Europe for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development"

• Commission Communication No: COM (2002) 349 final of 01/07/2002 ”Towards a Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides”

• Commission Communication No: COM (2003) 301of 27/05/2003 “Towards a thematic strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste”

• Commission Communication No: COM (2001) 0031 of 01/01/01 of 09/01/01 of 24/01/01,on the sixth environment action programme of the European Community “Environment 2010: Our future, Our choice” - The Sixth Environment Action Programme: Comments: Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions On the sixth environment action programme of the European Community “Environment 2010: Our future, Our choice” - The Sixth Environment Action Programme

• Council Resolution No: 93/517 of 01/02/93: OJ: C138 of 17/05/93, Community programme of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development : Comments: The Resolution written will be replaced by the Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council (see "new legal act in preparation")

• Parliament and Council Regulation No: 2150/2002/EC 25/11/02: OJ: L 332 of 09/11/02 on waste statistics


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• Parliament and Council Directive No: 2000/60/EC of 23/10/2000: OJ: L327 of 22/12/2000,establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy: Comments: Statistics on water use and discharges to water

• Parliament and Council Decision No: 2179/98/EC of 24/09/98: OJ: L275 of 10/10/98, on the review of the European Community programme of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development “Towards sustainability”: Comments: Review of the Fifth action programme

• Parliament and Council Decision No: 1600/2002/EC of 22/07/02: OJ: L 242 of 10/09/02, Sixth environmental action programme “Environment 2010: Our Future, our choice”

• Parliament and Council Decision No: COM (2001) 31 of 01/01/01 of 01/09/01, laying down the Community Environment Action Programme 2001-2010 Comments: Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council, Laying down the Community Environment Action Programme 2001-2010 (presented by the Commission), COM (2001) 31 (to be approved in 2001)

2. Results

3.1. Improvement of Waste Statistics

• The amount of waste of each sector for manufacturing industry is estimated according to the results of the sample survey.

• European Waste Catalogue as indicated by the Waste Regulation enacted in 2002 by EU will be put into practice (especially for industry).

• Regular and timely reporting on waste is improved.

• SIS staff are well trained on waste topic. 3.2. Improvement of Water and Wastewater Statistics

• The amount of water and wastewater of each sector for manufacturing industry is estimated according to the results of the sample survey.

• SEEA tables are completed in physical means.

• Regular and timely reporting on water and wastewater is improved.

• SIS staff are well trained on water and wastewater statistics topic. 3.3. Establishment of Environmental Expenditures Accounting

• Data collection methodologies (including the duties of other sections that collect data according to Structural Business Statistics Regulation of EU) for the variables are evaluated.

• Environmental Expenditures Accounting according to SERIEE framework is prepared.

• Regular and timely reporting on environmental expenditures is improved.

• SIS staff are well trained on environmental expenditures topic. 3.4. Estimation of Air Emissions

• Tier 2 and tier 3 approaches in IPCC guidelines are clarified and air emissions are estimated as proposed in IPCC guidelines and CORINAIR methodology.

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• SIS staff are well trained on air emissions topic. 3.5. Establishment of Environmental Databases

• The current situation on all environmental topics is assessed.

• Environmental metadata catalogue is prepared.

• The weakest points of the existing data collection are defined.

• Database for the environmental topics is designed and developed.

• An action plan for environmental data collection is developed.

3. Activities

4.1. Improvement of Waste Statistics

• A sample survey will be designed in order to estimate national values of manufacturing industry.

• Application of European Waste Catalogue will be studied in details together with experts.

• Metadata of waste variables will be analyzed together with experts.

• Participation of SIS staff in training courses, study visits, working parties and conferences will be coordinated.

4.2. Improvement of Water and Wastewater Statistics

• A sample survey will be designed in order to estimate national values of manufacturing industry.

• Application of SEEA tables in physical means will be studied in details together with experts.

• Metadata of water and wastewater variables will be analyzed together with experts.


4.3. Establishment of Environmental Expenditures Accounting

• A sample survey will be designed in order to collect data representative for each sector.

• Application of SERIEE framework will be studied in details together with experts.

• Metadata of environmental expenditure variables will be analyzed together with experts.


4.4. Estimation of Air Emissions

• Application of IPCC Guidelines and CORINAIR Methodology will be studied in details together with experts.

• Metadata of air emissions variables will be analyzed together with experts.


4.5. Establishment of Environmental Databases

• Metadata of Environmental variables will be analyzed together with experts.


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Component 7: Upgrading the Health Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data 1. Objectives 1.1. Overall Objective(s): The overall objective of this project is to upgrade the health statistics of Turkey and establishing a system to provide periodical data on these issues in order to meet European Union information demands. 1.2. Project Purpose: Improving the Administrative System of Health Statistics in Turkey (SIS part) To improve health statistics particularly manpower, utilization, hospitalization and health expenditure in compliance with EU standards. Improving the Capacity of Knowledge of Staff & Technical Capacity of Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health part)

To increase the technical capacity and technical knowledge of Ministry of Health staff, Improving the System of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases Statistics of Turkey To identify available and appropriate statistical data sources to be used by Social Insurance Institution, Pension Funds and Bag-Kur, To elaborate data flow and structure of variables to be obtained at the each institution, To ensure legislative changes for reaching the full implementation of European Statistics on Accident at Work and European Statistics on Occupational Diseases in line with national needs and maintaining the continuity of the system and also to obtain detailed statistics which are collected by Eurostat from all EU members state and candidate countries. 2. Background and justification:

Improving the Administrative System of Health Statistics in Turkey (SIS part)

Ministry of Health has been collected health data through their Provincial Offices and published them annually. In addition there has been some health information in the other institutions (Social Insurance Institution, Ministry of Defense, Universities), some of them have been used for statistical purposes and others used only for institutional purposes. These were National Burden of Diseases (MoH), National Health Expenditures Survey which were carried out by Ministry of Health, Turkey Demographic and Health Survey which was carried out by Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies and also Disability Survey which was carried out by State Institute of Statistics. Implementation of future programme and planning in the health area successfully is depend on the necessity of collection qualified, regular and reliable health data. Thus, improving the health system will be enable to national needs and international expectations. Improving the Capacity of Knowledge of staff & Technical Capacity of Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health part) Currently, health statistics of the country are being compiled, analysed and disseminated by the Ministry of Health. Several units of the Ministry deals with this subject.


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Some of health data are being collected through Provincial Health Directorates. Some of them are being held directly from related institutions in the country. Some health data are being distracted from research studies. Statistics units staff are graduated from health related schools of the universities. They have little formal statistics training. In-service training programs are not enough to develop technical capacities of those personnel. The Ministry does not have personnel who are educated at postgraduate level in epidemiology and biostatistics. Further analysis of health data is not possible because of lack of well educated personnel. Improving the System of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases Statistics of Turkey Under the umbrella of Social Security System, there are three institutions dealing with health and safety at work which are Social Insurance Institution, Pension Funds and Bag-Kur. Occupational accidents and diseases data have been compiled for only insured persons covered by Social Insurance Institution (SII). And then, related statistics and indicators have been published in the statistical yearbook annually. Although other institutions have some information on occupational accidents and diseases in their archives, but these information have not been used for statistical purposes. SII started the implementation of work injuries insurance in 1945. Data about occupational accidents and diseases are available since the year 1946. The notification of an accident is not compulsory. Although it is left to the initiative of the employer, all medical costs are collected back by SII when it appears that an occupational accident and disease have not been notified by the employer. Bag-Kur for self-employed persons and Pension Funds for civil servants have got some registered documents to be notified by the victim or his/her institution. These documents have been used for compensation, medical costs and health matters. Unfortunately; Bag-Kur and Pension Funds have not transformed some information in the registered documents to statistics and also they have not published any reports or publications based on occupational accidents and diseases. Legislative basis Parliament and Council Decision No 1786/2002/EC of 23/09/02: OJ: L 271 of 09/10/02 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) – Commission Statements Eurostat Working Group on Public Health : Agreement of 01/01/98, on Public Health statistics Parliament and Council Decision No 1786/2002/EC of 23/09/02: OJ: L 271 of 09/10/02 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) – Commission Statements Member States Agreement of 1993, European Statistics on Accidents at Work-ESAW Commission Agreement of 1999,on safety, hygiene and health at work Council Resolution No: 88/C 28/01 of 02/12/87 of 01/01/88, on safety, hygiene and health at work Council Directive No: 89/391//EEC of 12/06/89 : OJ: L183 of 29/06/89, Introduction on measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work Commission Recommendation No: 90/326/EEC of 22/05/90: OJ: L06 of 26/06/90, concerning the adoption of a European schedule of occupational diseases Council Resolution No: 95/C 168/01 of 27/03/95 of 01/04/95, on the transposition and application of Community social legislation Council Resolution No: 2002/C 161/01 of 3/06/02 OJ: C161 of 05/07/02, on a new Community strategy on health and safety at work (2002-200


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3. Results 3.1. Improving the Administrative System of Health Statistics in Turkey (SIS part) • The wholeness of data by the way of combining different forms which are collected with same

purposes is supplied, • The statistics on morbidity, manpower, hospitalisation and urbanization, etc. for ensuring the

European Community requirements in the expected level are provided, • The quality of collected data has been increased, • The continuity of regular and reliable health data for whole Turkey is ensured on time, • The quality level of staff who are responsible for health data is increased.

3.2. Improving the Capacity of Knowledge of staff & Technical Capacity of Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health part) Technical capacity of statistics units of the Ministry are developed with purchasing of computers, notebooks, photocopy machines and printers. Technical capacities and experiences of the personnel are developed through workshops, national and international training programs, and in services training programs. 3.3. Improving the System of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases Statistics of Turkey The current system, flow of information, data structure, statistical forms, collected variables related with European Occupational Accidents and Diseases Statistics is evaluated in detail. The main problems and troubles of current system are determined. The future activities according to national needs and the full implementation of European Occupational Accidents and Diseases Statistics are identified. The lack of coverage by including Pension Funds and Bag-Kur is solved. The occupational accidents and diseases data is collected in compliance with EU standards by all institutions.

4. Activities (including Means) 4.1. Improving the Administrative System of Health Statistics in Turkey (SIS part) • A committee consisting of Ministry of Health, Social Insurance Institution, Ministry of Defence,

University of Ankara who represents the Higher Education Council and SIS staff will be founded and supervised by SIS,

• Notification forms which have been gathered by Ministry of Health will be examined by this committee in details in order to evaluate the coverage of the system, definitions, classifications and data flow,

• In addition, other institutions information on the area of health statistics will be examined by this committee

• Eurostat experts will give a training course to this committee in Ankara about methodology in the health framework for understanding the EU standardisation and requirements,

• The members of committee (one of each institutions and three of SIS) will visit a country which has a system in compliance with EU standards,

• The committee will rearrange the notification forms of all institutions and standardized these forms with EU definition/classification standards under the conditions of Turkey,

• SIS will apply a pilot study for testing new statistical forms and data collection system together with all institutions,

• SIS together with committee will evaluate and report the results of the pilot study in cooperation with EU experts and local experts,

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• SIS and all institutions will train the staff regularly who have the responsibility of filling the forms to increase the quality of data.

4.2. Improving the Capacity of Knowledge of staff & Technical Capacity of Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health part) A consultant will be hired to prepare a current situation report. She / he will give consultancy on health statistics legislation, and training on health data collection and analysis. 6 computers, 2 notebooks, 2 photocopy machines, 2 laser printers, 2 fax machines will be purchased for statistics units of the central organization of the Ministry. Two softwares for the purpose of data collection and analysis will be purchased. A workshop will be held each year (totally four workshops) with participation of related sides, and statistics personnel of Provincial Health Directorates. A personnel from statistics units of the Ministry of Health will participate in each EUROSTAT meeting. A group consists of seven personnel will be established to participate in one of each working party (totally 7 working parties) of health related statistics of EUROSTAT. Each person will participate in each working party’s meeting and workshop. A study visit will be conducted to one or two of EU’s Member States to see their data collection, analysis, and report systems. A person will participate in International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Training Course (Summer School in Lyon- a one month course) in Lyon, France, for the purpose of training on cancer statistics. A person will participate in Epidemiology and Field Research Methods held by Umea University in Umea, Sweden (a two weeks course) for the purpose of training on health statistics. A person will participate in Statistical Methods in Epidemiology held by Nordic School of Public Health in Göteborg, Sweden (a ten days course) for the purpose of training on health statistics. A five days training programs will be delivered to the personnel who works at statistics units of the Ministry of Health. A person will participate in OECD Health Data Correspondents Meeting, and World Health Organization HFA Meeting each year. Required material and brochures will be published and disseminated to all related personnel. 4.3. Improving the System of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases Statistics of Turkey • Evaluating the current system involved all Social Insurance Institutions under the framework

of Social Security System (Social Insurance Institution, Pension Funds, Bag-Kur) in details, • Training the responsible staff of SIS and related organizations in order to overview EU

methodology, requirements and last developments in the health framework in Ankara, • Determining the coverage, timeframe, questionnaires and steps of the pilot study with EU and

local experts, • Visiting one of EU Member States which has complete European Statistics on Accident at

Work and European Statistics on Occupational Diseases system for realizing the main steps to be constituted the system and sharing national experiences.

• Evaluating of pilot study results and also last activities to be taken by related institutions with EU and local experts,

• Determining of a road map for reaching the full implementation of European Statistics on Accident at Work and European Statistics on Occupational Diseases.

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There is no linked activity with USST I. This project covers the sub-module of 2001 Phare Project Public Health of Eurostat named as Health Care Statistics. Improving the Capacity of Knowledge of staff & Technical Capacity of Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health part) There is no linked activity. Improving the System of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases Statistics of Turkey There is a linked activity with USST I – Occupational Accident Project and also this project covers the sub-module of 2001 Phare Project Health and Safety at Work name. These is no linked activity with USST I projects for module Occupational Diseases Statistics.


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Component 8: Revision of the Classification System and Classification Server of SIS 1. Objectives 1.1 Overall Objective(s): To achieve and improve the application and usage of revised or new classifications, standards and terminology in terms of continuity of compliance with EU standards and to revise our classification server. 1.2 Project Purpose: • To revise the classification system of SIS • To revise the classification server of SIS 2. Background and justification: SIS has already started a project relating to the development and establishment of a classification server covered by USST Phase I. This project is planned to be finished until the end of 2005. All EU and UN classifications will be uploaded into this server. And the server will serve to all users. As known, all economical classifications will be changed in 2007. Therefore, a new project to revise our classification system and classification server is needed. Also, it is intended to present the revised classifications and to give the training courses about them to both our regional offices and other users. Another rationale behind this project is to have the revised classifications translated into Turkish. So far the classifications have been translated by SIS staff and there have been some mistakes in translations of them. Hence, the revised classifications should be translated by professional translators. Turkey and the European Union are long-standing partners. Since 1964 an Association Agreement, whose stated objective has been the establishment of a Customs Union and the alignment of economic and social policies, links them. The Customs Union was successfully initiated in January 1996. Since being recognized formally as a candidate for EU membership at the Helsinki European Council in December 1999, Turkey is now engaged in the accession process, preparing itself to fulfill all the conditions of the membership known as the "Copenhagen criteria". Of course, one way for the country to get closer to European Union lies in adopting statistical norms and standards in line with the European Statistical System. Classification system and server can be used to reflect technological changes in forms of data and statistics with minimal error within the shortest time, so that the data required in national needs and EU requirements will be collected, processed, stored and evaluated efficiently, comparability of statistics between Turkey and EU will be possible.

Legislative basis Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2002 of 19 December 2001 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community Commission Regulation (EC) No 1264/98 of 17 June 1998 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 of 29 October 1993 on the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) in the European Economic Community


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Commission Regulation (EEC) No 761/93 of 24 March 1993 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 of 19 December 1991 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production Commission Regulation (EC) No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production It is expressed that above these regulations shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Since being recognized as a candidate country, Turkey is preparing itself to fulfill all the conditions of the membership. Of course, one way for the country to get closer to European Union lies in adopting statistical norms and standards in line with the European Statistical System. Also, at National programme for the adoption of acquis, classifications in chapter 4.13.2 are undertaken. And studies on the formation of the classification activities referred to in the acquis and their adaptation to national conditions are under the responsibility of SIS. 3. Results: • Translation works of EU and International Classifications that were revised in 2007 have been

made. • Conversion works of revised EU and International Classifications into national classifications

have been realised. • Revision of the Classification Server of SIS both under recommendations given by users and for

revised classifications has been made. • SIS staff have been well trained by participating in workshops, study visits and meeting related to

classifications. • Presentation of the revised Classifications and revised classification server in Turkey has been

realised. 4. Activities (including Means): • The classifications that will be revised in 2007 will be translated by expert translators. Existent

classifications were translated into Turkish by SIS staff. • Logical and physical design, and programmes of the Classification Server of SIS both under

recommendations given by users and for revised classifications will be revised. • Database of SIS’s Classification Server for classifications and standards that be revised in 2007

will be updated. • Conversion works of revised EU and International Classifications into national classifications will

be made. • Translations of the revised classifications, conversion tables and others will be uploaded into SIS’s

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• Turkish statisticians will participate in workshops, study visits and meeting relating to classifications.

• A local event will be organised to present the revised classifications and revised classification

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Component 9: Development of Multi-Domain Statistical System and Statistical Analysis

1.Objectives: 1.1. Overall Objective(s) To achieve EU standards on the methodology and quality of compiling and processing statistical data in some selected areas such as science and technology, statistical and economic analysis, rural development and information society. 1.2. Project Purpose: Upgrading the Science and Technology Statistics • To improve/upgrade the quality of internationally comparable data related to the Science and Technology Statistics. • To revise current estimation method for calculating R&D Statistics in higher education sector, • To revise current R&D questionnaire according to the last revision of Frascati Manual • To understand the method and procedures of survey on R&D according to regional level • To revise current innovations questionnaire according to the last revision of Oslo Manual and Community Innovation Survey. • To meet EU requirements on patent, human resources in science and technology, statistics on high tech industries, biotechnology statistics. Statistical and Economic Analysis • To calculate the economic sentiment indicator (index) in the framework of the Joint Harmonised EU Programme of Business and Consumer Surveys and leading economic indicators, • To analyse the present situation of manufacturing industry and its competitiveness in EU market by statistical, econometric and empirical studies, • To obtain comparable data with EU statistics; • To progress methodology in the calculation of the core inflation, • To analyse business cycle. Regional quality reports and rural development statistics • To prepare a regional quality report. • To develop a set of indicators by which to identify rural areas. • To arrive at a suitable definition of rural on which to base a subsequent analysis. • To carry out a spatial characterisation of rural areas through an aggregative methodology, involving a multivariate analysis of the variables. Information society statistics • To improve/upgrade the quality of internationally comparable data related to the information society. • To produce Information Communication Technology (ICT) Usage and ICT expenditure data in the business, household and government sectors in accordance with EU requirements 2. Description


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2.1. Background and justification: Upgrading the Science and Technology Statistics SIS has been carrying out surveys to produce Research and Development and Technological innovation data at only national level. SIS has not dealt with patent statistics, human resources in science and technology, statistics on high tech industries, biotechnology, and statistics on GBOARD up to now. There are two ways to measure government expenditures on R&D. These are Government Financed Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D (GERD) and Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for R&D (GBAORD). GBAORD data is not available yet. GBAORD data can be available much earlier than the results of R&D Surveys therefore it is demanded by the government to formulate science and technology policies. The estimation method SIS used in higher education sector in R&D survey is formed in 1990. But nowadays it could not respond to the changes in the sector. So it is needed to be revised. Also to produce comparable data on R&D and innovation, revising questionnaires according to last version of manuals and guidelines is necessary. Beside these R&D data is not collected at regional level. Producing regional R&D data will meet the EU requirements and will be helpful for national policymakers. Statistical and Economic Analysis State Institute of Statistics of Turkey publishes seasonally adjusted series of monthly and quarterly industrial production index by using FAME in the publication named Turkish Economy Statistics and Analysis. Series can be also adjusted by using the Tramo-Seats programme. Theoretical knowledge is needed on determining unit roots in the series, the frequency in which the unit roots exist and appropriate method to be used. The State Institute of Statistics and the Central Bank of Turkey have jointly launched a study within the framework of “Consumer Survey” Protocol in 2003. The Consumer Tendency Survey, which is the source for the consumer confidence index, was annexed to Household Labor Force Survey in the form of a module. The pilot study of the survey was carried out with the aim of testing the questionnaire design and method implemented between April 2003-December 2003. During the pilot-test period, a number of modifications were made in the questionnaire design and some methods were tested in sample-selection. Following an eight-month pilot-test period, it was decided to announce the survey results on a monthly basis. Monthly and quarterly tendency surveys in manufacturing industry have been carried out in SIS. The currently applied methodology will be changed. Questionnaires, variables, definitions will be redesigned. Technical assistance needed to achieve this purpose. The survey on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry was conducted in the year 2002. This questionnaire should be redesigned and amended according to the present situation of the manufacturing industry. Regional quality reports and rural development statistics Some regional indicators will be collected after the USST I program. After finishing the project of the Upgrading of Regional Statistics System in USST I program, a study on preparing the regional quality report will be started. In Turkey, rural area definition is different from other EU countries. Besides, a precise definition of rural area hasn’t been identified up to now. Rural statistics collected for some themes such as population, budget and labour force. In these studies, rural area definition is used for the areas which have population under the 20 000.


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Information society statistics International competition has become more dependent on information as globalization stepped up in the last quarter of the 20th century. To survive in an environment that depends on information needs rapid changes in organizational structures and perceptions. On March 23, 2000, European Council has envisioned to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world in ten years at Lisbon meeting. With respect to this strategy, on June 19-20, 2000 at Fieria, eEurope Program and Action Plan has been initiated. eEurope Program is believed to be one of the most important projects of the Community. Afterwards, it is decided that this initiative should be broadened and a group of candidate countries, including Turkey, were invited to participate in the program. Turkey has speeded up the efforts to make Turkey an information society as it joins eEurope+ together with candidate countries. Being as a part of these efforts, e-Transformation Turkey Project has been started. This project aims to foster the evolution and to coordinate information society activities. SIS is responsible for providing all necessary data for monitoring and evaluation of the project. SIS has just initiated works on ICT Usage statistics on households. 3. Results 3.1. Upgrading the Science and Technology Statistics • Government spend on R&D are produced by GBAORD Method. • Current R&D and Innovations questionnaires are revised according to manuals and guidelines • R&D data are produced at regional level. • Current estimation methods are revised for higher education sector. • Capacity of SIS is developed on patent statistics, human resources in science and technology, statistics on high tech industries, biotechnology statistics.

3.2. Statistical and Economic Analysis

• Consumer Survey which is one of the component of economic sentiment indicator (ESI), have been conducted on a monthly basis by State Institute of Statistics of Turkey and Central Bank of Republic of Turkey together since December 2003. Business confidence survey which is the other one of the component of economic sentiment is be revised according to the framework of the Joint Harmonised EU Programme of Business and Consumer Surveys. With the result of other surveys economic sentiment indicator/index is be calculated. • Business cycle is analysed. • Survey questions and survey methodology and procedures on competitiveness of manufacturing industry in EU market are adapted at national level.

3.3. Regional quality reports and rural development statistics

• A quality report is prepared. • A definition of rural area in Turkey is identified. • A data set of rural development indicators is identified and collected. 3.4. Information society statistics

• Surveys on ICT Usage in business, household and government sector are designed including questionnaire design and sampling. • ICT Usage Database and data treatment are established.


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• The quality of internationally comparable data related to the information society is improved.

4. Activities (including Means) 4.1. Upgrading the Science and Technology Statistics

• R&D data will be measured by GBOARD method by the support of local budget expert. One man one month expertise is required.

• R&D and Innovation Surveys will be revised by the support of EU experts. (Methodology, Questionnaire design, estimation factor etc.) Two men one months expertise is required.

• Regional R&D data collection methodologies (Survey design) will be studied with EU expert. One man two weeks expertise is required.

• Current estimation method for higher education sector will be revised by the support of local and EU experts. One man one month (local) and one man two weeks (EU) expertise is required.

• Acquisition and translation of related document concerning science, technology and innovations statistics will be realized.

• Equipment will be procured. 4.2. Statistical and Economic Analysis

• Economic Sentiment Indicators will be implemented. • Business Cycle Analysis will be done. • Econometric model will be applied and survey on competitiveness of manufacturing industry

in EU market will be revised. • Methodological Progress in Calculation of Core Inflation will be achieved.

4.3. Regional quality reports and rural development statistics

• Regional quality report will be prepared. • Rural area concept will be identified. • Rural Development Statistics will be improved.

-Relevant literature and studies related to indicators will be reviewed -A set of indicators covering a wide range of themes -required to characterise and identify rural areas in Turkey, will be developed. -Appropriate data produced in Turkey will be produced. -Comparative evaluation of territorial strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats will be done.

4.4. Information society statistics

• Surveys on ICT Usage will be designed by the EU Expert. (Methodology, Questionnaire design, sampling framework etc.) One man one month expertise is required. • A database will be established for accumulating data by the support of local expert. One man one month expertise is required. • Data treatment will be done with local and EU experts. Two men one month expertise is required (one local and one EU) • Technical infrastructure will be strengthened. • Related document concerning information society statistics will be maintained. • Turkish statisticians will participate to training courses, study visits, workshops, working parties, seminar and conferences. 4.5. Participation of SIS experts in training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties


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SIS Staff will be trained by participating training courses, study visits, workshops, and working parties. Where requested by Eurostat, participation in working parties should be organized and all related costs shall be born by the project. The number of working parties to be attended by Turkish staff depends on Eurostat’s agenda for the respective years. 5. Linked Activities: Upgrading the Science and Technology Statistics There is no linked activity. Statistical and Economic Analysis There is no linked activity. Regional quality reports and rural development statistics A regional database will be established in the coverage of USST I programme by the end of 2006. The database will comprise recalculated regional data according to regional classification. A metadata will also be collected in the frame of the USST I Program. After these studies, a regional statistics quality report will be prepared in the frame of USST II programme. Information society statistics There is no linked activity.


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Component 10: Improvement of National Accounts According to the Recommendation of ESA95 1. Objectives

1.1. Overall Objective(s):

• To develop methodology to produce NA statistics as defined by ESA-95.

1.2. Project Purpose:

Government Finance Statistics • To adopt methodology of General Government financial accounts to produce national accounts

tables for the general government sector, according to EU requirements, that can be obtained from available data sources.

• To provide consistency between deficit and debt notification and the net lending/net borrowing (B9) for the general government sector, as defined by ESA95.

Household Sector Accounts • To improve significantly the basis of estimates of Household Sector Accounts such as actual final

consumption of households, household production account, household income generation account. Regional Accounts • To calculate GDP figures by using direct data from 2002 Census of Industrial and Business

Establishments on NUTS1 and NUTS2 basis. Annual Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables

• To adopt methodology of annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices and IOT

according to EU requirements • To produce comparable and compliant data for the annual supply and use tables at current and

constant prices.

Gross Capital Formation, Capital Stock and Consumption of Fixed Capital • To improve significantly the basis of estimates of Gross Capital Formation (GCF), Capital Stock

(CS) and the Consumption of Fixed Capital (CFC), thereby raising the quality and comparability of GDP

• To achieve compliance with ESA 95 requirements. Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet • To adopt methodology of annual financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheets

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• To improve theoretical knowledge of SIS staff about Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet.

Exhaustiveness of National Accounts • To produce updates of the work done in the USST 1-Macro Economic Statistics- Exhaustiveness

of National Accounts covering the most recent year for which final NA figures are available. The quality adjustments needs to be improved, the descriptions of the adjustment methods need to become more precise, and progress on improvements scheduled after the first Exhaustiveness project needs to be monitored.

• To improve exhaustiveness in national accounts. • To emphasize the achievement of practical results. Estimation Methods at Constant Prices • To produce updates of the work done in the USST 1-Macro Economic Statistics- • To implement ESA95 in Turkey, the Commission Decision on Constant Prices and the related

methodological development and recommendations. • To follow-up the USST 1-Macro Economic Statistics on constant prices.

2. Background and justification: Government Finance Statistics

In Turkey, Ministry of Finance (MOF) and The Undersecretariat of Treasury (UT) are the main data sources for government accounts. For central government MOF and UT have shared responsibility for the data collection: revenue and expenditure are prepared by the MOF and financing by UT. GG financial accounts are not yet compiled in Turkey, but In general there has been a good progress in this field. There are already rather good data available for the central government, but there is only partial data for local government.

Since it is a new area for SIS, Turkey’s National Accounts Statisticians need to work on different aspects of the government accounts such as accrual recording, consolidation etc. and on compilation of these statistics.

Non- financial accounts of general government is one of priority areas in National Accounts. Since the Ministry of Finance started to implement new accounting and budget coding system for central government in 2004 it is planned that tables 2, 9 and 11 for central government will be finalised by using MOF data.

Household Sector Accounts

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• Ownership of dwellings Household sector account is the most important component within the National Accounts. A wide range of questions concerning sources, methods, concepts and particular problem areas should be covered with the project. Household sector estimates should be as complete as possible and fields of improvement and proposals for further work should be formulated. European methods and statistical concepts will be applied according to national conditions. The main legal act is the “European system of national accounts ESA 95” (Regulation Council No: 2223/96 of June 1996) Regional Accounts The NUTS classification has been used since 1988 in Community legislation No 2052/88 on the tasks of the Structural Funds. Regional accounts are based on the transactions of units that are resident in a regional territory. The regionalisation methods are bottom up methods, top-down methods and mixed methods. The Gross Domestic Product accounts by region in Turkey are estimated by using production approach. GDP by provinces and regions have been estimated by kind of activity through the production approach. SIS has calculated GDP by regions since 1987 in current as well as constant prices. Value added by industries by regions is presented in producers' prices. Regional accounts are based on the transactions of units that are resident in a regional territory. The regionalisation methods are following: Bottom up methods Top-down methods Mixed methods GDP by provinces (NUTS3) and regions (NUTS2 and NUTS1) are calculated by using top-down method in Turkey. The legal basis for the work on regional accounts is the Council Regulation on Regional Accounts of 21 06 1999 and Parliament and Council Regulation of 21 06 2003. The Decision provides to manage the inevitable process of change in the administrative structures of Member States in the smoothest possible way, so as to minimise the impact of such changes on the availability and comparability of regional statistics. Annual Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables

Input-Output tables have been prepared as an industry-by-industry, square matrix in SIS according to the ISIC classification of SNA. Input-Output tables in Turkey were compiled for 1968, 1973, 1979, 1985 and 1990 by SIS in the same format. Supply and use tables were prepared for the years 1996 and 1998 by using the concepts and definitions of SNA’93 and the classification of ISIC Rev. 3. The Supply and use tables are prepared by using very detailed questionnaires for every activity. Supply and use tables and input-output tables for 1998 were prepared at basic prices in the first time and the table of net taxes on products and imports matrix including goods and services imports (previous tables has only goods imports) also prepared in the first time in SIS. Input-output tables for domestic output and imports are prepared as product-by-product input-output tables based on industry technology assumption.


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The supply - use and input-output tables will be prepared for the benchmark year of 2002 by using the results of second stage questionnaires of the General Census of Business Establishments, held in 2003. Data entries of questionnaires and analysis of data will be finished by the Agricultural and Industrial Department at the end of this year and National Accounts Department will start to work on all these data at the beginning of 2005, by using the classification of CPA and NACE. The 2002 Supply Use and Input-Output Tables will be finalised at the end of 2005, according to the recommendations of ESA’95 and Eurostat IO Manual, t+36 months. Supply and Use Tables at current prices for the years 2003 and 2004 based on benchmark year 2002 will be prepared in 2006. The 2003 and 2004 Tables at constant prices will be tried to prepare as previous year prices within the same year. There is a linked project which is under USST-I the annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices

The main legal act is the “European system of national and regional accounts in the community (ESA-95)” (Regulation Council No: 2223/96 of 6/25/96: OJ: L310 of 11/30/96). Gross Capital Formation, Capital Stock and Consumption of Fixed Capital

In Turkey, GDP estimates by expenditure approach are available on a quarterly basis. Estimates on Gross Fixed Capital Formation are made separately for two main types of assets: construction and machinery - equipment. Estimates on Consumption of Fixed Capital are also available for two main types of assets: construction and machinery - equipment The main legal act is the “European system of national and regional accounts in the community (ESA-95)”, Regulation Council No: 2223/96 Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet A study coordinated by the CBRT in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Undersecretariat of Treasury (UT) and State Institute of Statistics (SIS) in order to compile financial accounts has been started. It aims to determine existing situation, define the standards and data requirements as a priority. Turkish experts participated to meetings abroad. Financial accounts are not compiled yet, but in general there has been a good progress in this field. CBRT prepared the non consolidated balance sheet for financial assets and liabilities for the monetary financial institutions sector for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, general government sector excluding local government and other financial corporations sector for the years 2000 2001 with the available data. However the table doesn’t include all instruments and sub sectors due to lack of information.

The main legal act is the “European system of national and regional accounts in the community (ESA-95)” (Regulation Council No: 2223/96 of 6/25/96: OJ: L310 of 11/30/96). Exhaustiveness of National Accounts Since the early 1990s, exhaustiveness of the NA has been a focal point for the statistical work in EU Member States. This attention for exhaustiveness does not only exist, because it concerns a key element of statistical quality of the NA, but also because a lack of exhaustiveness, in the NA and in its main aggregates GDP and GNP, has important consequences for the own resources of the European Union and for the allocation of EU structural and regional funds


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The legal basis for the work on exhaustiveness is the Commission Decision on Exhaustiveness of 22 February 1994. The Decision provides that GNP and GDP are exhaustive when they cover not only production, primary income and expenditure that are directly observed in regular statistical surveys or administrative files, but also include production, primary income and expenditure which are not directly observed via these sources. The Decision obliges Member States to: (a) draw up a list of all explicit and implicit coverage adjustments to basic statistics; (b) make a systematic comparison of the employment underlying GDP with labour observed in demographic sources; (c) list all items of income-in-kind included in the national accounts and describe how they are valued in their national accounts; and (d) investigate the possibilities of using the results from fiscal audits to make adjustments for misreporting. The exercises implied by (a), (b) and (c) of the exhaustiveness decision have proven fruitful in the Member States and in several new member states. They have either confirmed that the existing accounts were already exhaustive in a particular field, or led the countries to make adjustments for items that had been omitted, or had been covered inadequately. However, exercise (d), the use of fiscal audits, has not been found to be generally applicable. Under the first exhaustiveness project, SIS carried out a pilot study on the NOE. The project to describe their procedures for calculating the NOE from the output and expenditure approach of GDP, based on a systematic and consistent framework designed by Eurostat, the so-called “tabular framework”. They also had to provide the corresponding exhaustiveness adjustments, where necessary. Within the tabular framework, the exhaustiveness of GDP has been systematically examined and described for a list of possible NOE components and for various other items. Available information about the NOE has been collected. Exhaustiveness adjustments have been established or improved, using different estimation methods and verification procedures. The different methods for estimating non-observed activities have been compared, and the possibility of combining different methods and estimates has been examined. Furthermore, the consistency of the adjustments in the three GDP approaches has been analysed where possible. The results of the work described above have been be documented by a report and assessment from an EU expert. A special part of the project also dealt with illegal activities. ESA95 provides that certain illegal activities fall within the production boundary and, thus, should be covered in the National Accounts. Estimation Methods at Constant Prices Economic and Monetary Union and the common currency require good macro-economic statistics. In particular, the Stability and Growth Pact, agreed by the Member States in 1997, created a renewed demand for higher quality and more comparable data on economic growth. A new Commission Decision on Constant Prices came into force for the Member States in 1998. It concerns the principles for measuring prices and volumes (Decision Commission No: 98/715 of 11/30/98: OJ: 340 of 12/16/98). Commission Decision 98/715 specified three main principles concerning the measurement of prices and volumes in national accounts. The three principles concerned the level of detail applied in the calculations, the choice of index formula and the choice of the base year. Turkey has rather high rates of inflation. It is vital to be able to express GDP in these countries in real terms, i.e. at constant prices. Main aggregates in constant prices are estimated at the same level of details as main aggregates in current prices. Base year at present is 1987, the same year as the base for the wholesale and consumer price index. In context of implementation of ESA95, Turkey has been working to developed methods and procedures for the measurement of prices and volumes in the national accounts.


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3. Results

3.1. Government Finance Statistics

• Short-term and long-term recommendations are provided for improving annual and quarterly

government national accounts data in Turkey. • The report on recommendations for future work including necessary changes to basic statistics

concerning General Government is provided. • Legal basis of government finance statistics as well as latest developments in EU is learned by the

statisticians involved in general government statistics and methodology of government finance statistics are improved.

• National accounts tables required by ESA95 for the general government sector are prepared by using available data sources

• Turkish statisticians participated in training courses, study visits, working parties, conferences, local meetings etc.

3.2. Household Sector Accounts

• The current situation is analysed, • Best estimate procedure is identified for household sector accounts, • Household Budget Survey data and Census of General Industry and Establishments data are

covered for National Accounts purpose, • The SIS staffs are well trained and have a good understanding of structure, concepts and

definitions of ESA 95. Better experiences of member countries are transferred to SIS.

3.3. Regional Accounts

• The current situation is assessed, • All sources and methods used for the compilation of regional GDP estimates are analysed, • Regional GDP figures are estimated by using mixed method, • Final report on regional GDP estimates for Turkey is prepared.

3.4. Annual Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables

• Supply and use tables coverage; data availability and comparability in Turkey and EU

countries are assessed and reported. Methodology of annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices are improved.

• Supply and use tables, valuation matrices and input-output tables for the year 2002 will be prepared in 2005 by using the concept and definitions of ESA’95 and Eurostat IO Manual.

• Tables linking the supply and use tables to the institutional sectors accounts are prepared in the first time in SIS by using the results of supply and use tables for 2002, in 2006.

• Supply and use tables at current and constant prices for the years 2003 and 2004 are prepared in 2006.

• The training course on the supply - use and input-output tables, study visits, working parties and conferences will be participated, as a result, the knowledge and experience of SIS staff is improved.

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• The report on Recommendations for future work, including any necessary changes to basic

statistics concerning GCF is obtained from the EU expert. • The report on Recommendations for future work, including any necessary changes to basic

statistics concerning CFC and CS is obtained from the EU expert.

3.6. Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet

• Knowledge and experience of SIS staff on this subject is improved. • Basic data for household and non financial corporations from the point of view the

Financial Accounts is improved.

3.7. Exhaustiveness of National Accounts

• An updated and improved set of exhaustiveness adjustments for the most recent for which

final NA figures are available. • A draft and a final report by the EU-experts and local expert with a summary description of

NA statistics and the underlying basic statistics that are relevant the compilation of GDP and GNP.

• The reports have included detailed assessments of the reliability of these statistics; of the verification procedures used; and of the magnitude and quality of the exhaustiveness adjustments, an evaluation of relevant ESA95 compliance issues;

• Recommendations for future work in order to achieve exhaustiveness of GDP and GNP and to improve the quality of the underlying estimates, including necessary changes to basic statistics.

3.8. Estimation Methods at Constant Prices

• Improvement of constant price estimates are achieved on the basis of the Handbook on price

and volume measures and the forthcoming Regulation, • Inventories are completed on sources and methods of constant price estimates. • More reliable constant prices estimation is obtained which are consistent with ESA95 and the

Commission Decision. • Seasonal adjustment of quarterly accounts are calculated at constant prices for 1998-2007.


4.1. Government Finance Statistics

• Technical assistance will be provided by EU short term and a local expert for evaluating

current situation and improving methodology • Close cooperation with the related government organizations will be established • Data sources will be analyzed and a report on the data sources is produced including

recommendations for future work, e.g. the necessary adjustments to basic data by an EU and local expert.

• Analysis on the results of studies and comments for ongoing works will be provided .technical assistance is provided for problems encountered during the works

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4.2. Household Sector Accounts

• Actual final consumption of household table will be estimated, • The sources used and calculation method for household production account and household

income generation account will be analyzed, • Results of studies will be analyzed, • Turkish statisticians will participate in training courses, study visits, working parties,

conferences, local meetings etc.

4.3. Regional Accounts

• All sources will be analyzed for estimation of regional accounts and the reliability of existing

basic data will be assessed. • Providing improvements in terms of methods and concepts in parallel to the improvements in

basic data sources, • Regional GDP will be estimated by using mixed method. • The results of the study will be analyzed and a report will be prepared related to study of

regional GDP. • A local expert and EU short-term expert will assess for evaluating current situation, provide

technical assistance on methods used for the compilation of regional accounts, • Problems will be solved encountered in calculating regional accounts estimates and analysis

the results of the study. • A help-desk will be set up by the external and local experts, • Technical support will be provided on relevant statistical issues; and where needed, on-the-job

expert training to the SIS staff about relevant concepts, sources and methods, • Final report will be prepared on regional accounts GDP for Turkey.

4.4. Annual Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables

• Supply and use tables’ coverage according to ESA’95 and Eurostat Input-Output Manual, data

availability and comparability in Turkey and EU countries will be assessed and reported by an EU and local expert. The methodology of annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices will be improved.

• Supply - use and input-output tables for the year 2002, prepared in 2005, benchmark year tables for the system of Turkish national accounts will be consulted and a review report will be prepared.

• Estimation processes of annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices will be consulted and a review report will be prepared.

• Supply and use tables at current and constant prices for the years 2003 and 2004, prepared in 2006 will be consulted and a review report will be prepared.


4.5. Gross Capital Formation, Capital Stock and Consumption of Fixed Capital

• All sources will be analyzed for GCF and calculation methods • All sources will be analyzed for CS, CFC and the calculation methods.


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4.6. Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet

• A working group consisting of CBRT the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Undersecretariat of

Treasury (UT) and State Institute of Statistics (SIS) will be founded. • Eurostat expert will supply technical assistance for compilation methodology of financial

accounts by sector and financial balance sheet for understanding the EU requirements, • CBRT have been working on financial institutional sector, all general government finance

statistics will be aggregated and made public by the MOF in the international standards. SIS will improve the basic data for household and non financial corporations from the point of view the Financial Accounts,


4.7. Exhaustiveness of National Accounts

• A study carried out by external expert in co-operation with local expert and SIS expert on all

forms of under-reporting of economic activities and thorough description using a tabular approach to ensure that all types of under-coverage and under-reporting are investigated,

• Priorities and problematic areas will be identified that need special attention during the exhaustiveness project; propose possible sources and methodologies for tackling these specific problem areas.

• A detailed work plan and timetable will be prepared for the project work by the SIS. The work plan should take into account existing needs for support.

• A help-desk will be set up by the external and local experts, • Technical support will be provided on relevant statistical issues; and where needed, on-the-job

expert training to the SIS staff about relevant concepts, sources and methods, • Calculation of impact of under-coverage and under-reporting; and producing national accounts

with significantly improved exhaustiveness, • A report will be produced on the project with a description covering all potential areas for

non-exhaustiveness, their current situation, the latest adjustments, and further improvements needed.

4.8. Estimation Methods at Constant Prices

• A detailed work plan and timetable will be prepared for the project work by the SIS. The work

plan should take into account existing needs for support. • To continue for estimation at constant prices according to ESA 95 and to base constant price

calculations on the three principles from the commission decision if possible. • A help-desk will be set up by the external and local experts, • Technical support will be provided on relevant statistical issues; and where needed, on-the-job

expert training to the SIS staff about relevant concepts, sources and methods. Technical assistance is required to help quarterly accounts implement this Decision and to follow and incorporate the recommendations from the handbook.

• A report will be prepared on the project. The report will include a summary description of used methods for constant price estimations of quarterly accounts and recommendations for future work.

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Phare 2002 project on Government Statistics of Candidate Countries.

Household Sector Accounts Household Budget Survey data, Census of General Industry and Establishments data and Agricultural statistics data will be used for household sector accounts. Regional Accounts It has a link with Census of Industrial and Business Establishments and Structural Business Statistics. Annual Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables

There is a link activity with USST-I, which is the annual supply and use tables at current and constant prices.

Gross Capital Formation, Capital Stock and Consumption of Fixed Capital There is a link activity with USST-I which is the Gross Capital Formation, Capital Stock and Consumption of fixed capital. 2003 Phare Project on Capital Stock and Formation.

Financial Accounts by Sector and Financial Balance Sheet There is no linked activity. Exhaustiveness of National Accounts It has a link with USST 1-Macro Economic Statistics- Exhaustiveness of National Accounts. Estimation Methods at Constant Prices It has a link with USST 1-Macro Economic Statistics- Estimation Methods at Constant Prices and Phare 2002 on Constant Estimates. This project also link with Results of the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index.


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Component 11: Improvement of Information and Communication Technology Services 1.Objectives

1.1. Overall Objective(s): Strengthening the statistical information systems by means of the improvement of the Information and Communication Technology Services (ICT) for central and regional offices.

1.2. Project Purposes: To harmonize and standardize hardware and software platform of ICT infrastructure. To improve statistical data integration by implementation of data architecture and data warehouse on enterprise-level. To improve the data, information and computer security for an integrated environment. To protect the data and maintain the data processing procedures in disasters. To improve ICT infrastructure for Central and Regional offices. To increase the capacity and the capability of web service. 2. Background and justification ICT technology plays a crucial role in practically all core, supporting and auxiliary operations of the State Institute of Statistics (SIS). SIS is one of the largest and most advanced computer users in Turkey. It has an installed base of approximately 1600 PC computers in the head office, of which 1400 are connected through a local area network to various server computers, and an IBM mainframe. Hardware and software platforms in SIS are divers. In its head office SIS has installed a traditional mainframe (IBM) as well as a number of servers linked to PC's in a Local Area Network (LAN). For software, the range of platforms is even wider. Used programming languages range from the traditional Assembler and Cobol to the more modern Visual Basic and C++. Operating systems vary from different versions of Windows to Unix and even Linux. The main large database systems are based on Oracle and DB2 but SQL Server and even Ingress are also applied. Smaller databases are mainly based on MS Access but FoxPro and other packages are used as well. System development methods and procedures are still largely traditional. Especially the Data Processing department, which is still oriented to Cobol, uses hardly any modern system development methodology or tool. There is no policy regarding buying/developing software or outsourcing or activities. Overall, the focus of ICT department is on technology rather than on SIS business. Above described environment is largely the result of historical developments. New information and communication technologies appear in an unparalleled pace. SIS has always acknowledged the importance and potential application of new technologies. It has embraced many of them in an early stage. The consequences of all these technologies for the ICT strategy and policies however have not always been recognized. This has resulted in less focus of the ICT functioning and a growing area for which expertise has to be developed and maintained. This is reflected in the organization of the ICT department. SIS has 26 Regional Offices, 5 of which have an operational LAN. Every regional office can access the head quarter by using dial-up over RAS.


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However currently a diversity of hardware is being used, any new development should focus on the environment of workstations and servers running Microsoft Windows, mainly Windows 2000, connected through a LAN. Some improvements of hardware and management have already taken place, in line with these improvements; SIS is developing a new ICT strategy. In October 2002, SIS has installed a working group to propose the reorganization of the ICT management and its strategy. Two experts have visited SIS in order to update and to improve the ICT strategy, management and organization. The working group has finalized the technical report of strategy plan, and the output of it will support improvement of the ICT infrastructure and give guidance for ICT aspects of statistical projects. 3. Results

3.1. Data Architecture and Data Warehouse • Standard data architecture and its rules for all statistical production and dissemination

processes of SIS were implemented. • A metadata system for all statistical production and dissemination processes of SIS was

constructed. • An enterprise data warehouse depending on data architecture and integrated with the metadata

system was implemented. • Data mining applications were developed on enterprise level.

3.2. Data and Information Security

• The security policy of data and information was implemented. • Security systems were installed. • The qualifications of ICT personnel have been improved.

3.3. Establishment of an Archiving and Disaster Recovery Centre • A new and secure physical place was selected.

3.4. Modernization of SIS Web Service • Effective, fast, dynamic and user-friendly web service on SIS Portal was established. • Data quality of SIS was increased.

3.5. Improvement of Regional Offices ICT Infrastructure

• ICT infrastructure for Central and Regional Offices was improved. • Data transmission capacity for analysis and dissemination processes was increased. • Network and systems of regional offices were managed remotely. • A dynamic database over one server instead of distributed servers was established and the

servers through the Institute were optimized and centralized • Database management capacity was enhanced. • Strengthening the administrative activities for the central and the regional offices improved

the production capacity of the Institute. • The qualifications of ICT personnel have been improved


4.1. Data Architecture and Data Warehouse

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• The working group will review and evaluate the results of data warehousing and mining component of USST I which would be performed for a pilot project by using business statistics data within the SIS.

• The working group will perform a system analysis working to determine user requirements and will obtain data infrastructure of SIS.

• Together with EU/local expert, training requirements will be determined. • Together with EU/local expert, necessary software tolls will be selected/purchased. • Together with EU/local expert, project timetable will be revised if necessary. • Together with EU/local expert, current ICT infrastructure will be reviewed and availability of

metadata, data architecture, data warehousing and mining within the whole Institute will be discussed.

• SIS staff will participate to training courses, study visits, workshops and working parties. • Together with local expert, implementation of the project, establishment of the data warehouse

and metadata system and development of the data mining applications. • Together with EU/local experts, documentation of the project will be prepared. • The working group will train related SIS Staff.

4.2. Data and Information Security

• Together with local expert, current system needs will be determined and a security policy will be created.

• Together with EU/local expert, the security policy will be implemented. • Together with EU/local expert, the security hardware and software will be implemented. • SIS Staff will participate to training courses.

4.3. Establishment of an Archiving and Disaster Recovery Center

• SIS staff will participate to study visit in order to gain information about Archiving and Disaster Recovery Center of the other member countries.

• Together with EU expert, a suitable place for an archiving and disaster recovery center will be selected.

• Together with EU expert, necessary hardware and software will be chosen/purchased. • Together with EU expert, carrying out the second copies of backup files to the Archiving and

Disaster Recovery Center will be performed. • Together with EU expert, necessary studies will be performed to establish an online

connection between SIS and the Archiving and Disaster Recovery Center. 4.4. Modernization of SIS Web Service

• Together with EU/local expert, a system analysis and determination of current web service needs will be analysed.

• Together with EU/local expert, user profiles and connection characteristics will be analysed. • Together with EU/local expert, a content management system (CMS) will be constructed. • Together with EU/local expert, a system for new web site module will be designed. • Together with EU/local expert, a pilot project of a new service will be created and

implemented. • User-friendly interfaces and web services will be developed due to user demands. • SIS staff will participate to training courses about designing and developing web pages;

programming, implementing and deploying web services on the SIS portal. • SIS staff will participate to study visits and workshops about CMS, Web services and Portals • SIS staff will participate to working parties about CMS, Web services and Portals.


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4.5. Improvement of Central and Regional Offices ICT Infrastructure

• Together with EU/local expert the current ICT infrastructure for Central and Regional offices (only for 5 regional office) will be analysed.

• Together with local expert necessary hardware and software will be determined for Central and all regional offices.

• Together with EU/local expert, a new system for centralization of servers and improvement of regional offices ICT infrastructure will be designed.

• Together with local expert, the technical bidder for hardware, software and communication equipments will be prepared.

• After purchasing hardware, software and communication equipments, the system for centralization of servers and improvement of regional offices ICT infrastructure will be established.

• SIS staff will participate to training courses.

5. Linked activities Within the framework of implementation of the strategy for pre-accession to the EU, SIS is undergoing extensive reorganizations. In order to improve the ICT management, strategy and organization, SIS has defined some projects under the scope of USST I, which are, ICT Management, Strategy and Organization, Standards for Methods and Productivity Tools, Conversion and upgrading of data collection, analyzing and reporting tools, Network and system management, Internet, Intranet, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Data warehousing and mining, Information and knowledge management, Eurostat connection and Professional training in system development. These projects will be complemented at the end of 2006. They will enforce the other USST I projects of SIS with supporting hardware, software, trained ICT staff and technical support needs. In order to further improve and strengthen the ICT infrastructure and services, SIS seeks support for several projects and training for a variety of techniques.


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Component 12: Multi Beneficiary Programme 1. Objectives

1.1. Overall Objective(s): • To harmonise Turkish Statistical System with European Statistical System in selected areas.

1.2. Project Purpose: • To participate in existing multi-beneficiary programs of Eurostat in the field of statistics.

2. Background and justification: SIS has participated to Candidate Countries Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001 for statistical co-operation on 11 topics which are Social protection statistics, Income and living conditions, Financial indicators, Purchasing Power Parity, Innovation statistics, Short-term business statistics, Prodcom classification survey, Foreign affiliates trade statistics, Infra-annual economic statistics, Health and safety at work, Public health statistics. SIS has also planned to participate to Candidate Countries Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2002 on selected areas. SIS has begun to participate in MCL meetings organised by EUROSTAT since 2000 for follow up and transfer recent development on EU Statistical System to Turkey. 3. Results • Turkish Statistical System was improved on selected areas. • A number of Turkish statisticians were participated in the meetings organised by Eurostat.

4. Activities (including Means) • Consultants will assist to Turkish Statisticians to develop methodology on selected statistical areas

by Eurostat. • Pilot survey will be carried out on selected areas. • Turkish Statisticians will participate in the meetings, which is in the multi country list prepared by

Eurostat on statistics. 5. Linked activities SIS has participated to Candidate Countries Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2001 for statistical co-operation. And, SIS has also planned to participate to Candidate Countries Multi-Beneficiary Programme 2002 on selected areas.


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Component 13: Support for the Improvement of Administrative Structure of SIS 1. Objectives

1.1.Overall Objective(s): To improve the administrative structure of the SIS through supporting human resource management, statistical programming and design and planning for the regional re-restructuring

1.2.Project Purpose: Statistical Programming • To develop a concept of programming on statistical production and adopt the principles of multi-year programming approach for all statistical domains. Human Resource Management • To review and improve human resource planning and management strategies in SIS. • To utilize the usage of available human resources through job definitions and analysis. • To improve staff capacity of SIS through specialized training courses, seminars, conferences, study visits and workshops. Design and planning for the regional re-restructuring • To analyse the requirements of each regional office taking into account the regional characteristics (demographic, economic…etc.) • To re-define the tasks and responsibilities of regional offices considering the possible data demands of local authorities and private sector. • To develop a human resources management strategy for the regional offices. 2. Background and justification:

Turkey, as a candidate country, sets its priority to European Union membership. For attaining this goal, statistics play a vital role, which is therefore one of the first subjects in Turkey that has been given priority. Thus, SIS serves both to modernize Turkish Statistical System and provide data which will be one of the main inputs to the negotiation process.

In the compliance process SIS needs to find different ways of capacity building and institutional strengthening. Improvement in terms of human resources planning, regional structuring, statistical programming and coordination with other actors of the system are the basic issues to face the new challenges.

SIS experts are familiar with the requirements of Statistical Acquis in terms of methodology. For several years they are following the technical meetings organized by Eurostat to catch up the recent developments. However, SIS needs an overall organizational planning and restructuring to ensure the coordination between methodological issues and organizational requirements for proper implementation of new techniques. There has been some studies realized to attain this goal during 2003-2004:

– A statistical Law which will act as the basis of reform of Turkish Statistical System was prepared and submitted to Prime Ministry on January 2004. Prime Ministry transferred the draft Law to Turkish Grand National Assembly on June 2004.


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– Intense works for the reform of the Regional Offices were underway. These works are designed to produce regional statistics on NUTS levels – Preparatory studies for setting up Business Registers have already been completed based on the results of General Census of Industry and Businesses. – Protocols were signed between SIS and General Directorate of Security Affairs, Undersecretariat of External Trade and Human Rights Institution. The last is very important since statistics in this area will be produced for the first time. – A strategic plan for statistical production at SIS ia at the “eve” of finish. – A committee is about to be established for preparing 5 year official statistics for all Turkey.

Regional Restructuring

Statistical classification of the regions was totally based on the administrative divisions, which were 7 regions and 81 provinces. Institute was supported by 22 regional offices and a directorate in its collection of data. Turkey adopted European statistical classification of region (NUTS) in September 2002. Turkey was divided, for statistical and regional development reasons, into 12 NUTS-1, 26 NUTS-2 and 81 NUTS-3 levels. In comply with this, the Institute restructured its regional offices and increased the number to 26 as having one regional office in every NUTS-2 levels.

This revealed the need for the strengthening the capacity of the regional offices by both technically and personally. Because, regional offices from now on will collect, process and even disseminate regional statistics. Another dimension is the increase in the sampling size. Regional statistical data cannot be produced by the existing sampling sizes. All these force the Institute to take immediate precautions to adapt new situation. 3. Results 3.1. Statistical Programming • An outline of statistical programme has been developed and the principles of multi-year programming approach have been adopted by SIS. • The programming approach has been developed according to both the requirements of Turkish statistical system in its compliance process to EU. • By the end of the project operational long-term, medium term and annual plans will be produced based on the selected approach. 3.2. Human Resource Management • Current human resource planning and management strategies in SIS have been assessed. • Job definitions, analysis and requirements have been prepared for all the departments of SIS. • SIS staff has participated in training courses, seminars, conferences, study visits and workshops on specified areas such as quality management, strategic planning, human resources management ...etc. 3.3. Design and planning for the regional re-structuring • The requirements of regional offices have been assessed. • The tasks and responsibilities of regional offices have been re-defined. • A report has been received on the training requirements of the staff in regional offices. • The staff of regional offices has participated in training activities determined.


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4. Activities (including Means) 4.1. Statistical Programming • EU expertise will be provided to assess the existing statistical programming process and prepare a report covering recommendations on issues to be considered and improved. • EU expert will prepare an outline for the process of statistical programming. He/she will define the principles to set up of a committee, members to be included and the format of the plan. 4.2. Human Resource Management • Local expertise will assess the current human resource planning and management strategies in SIS. • Local experts will make the job definitions, analysis and requirements for all the departments of SIS. • SIS staff will participate in training courses, seminars, conferences, study visits and workshops on specified areas such as quality management, strategic planning, human resources management ...etc. 4.3. Design and planning for the regional re-structuring • EU/local expertise will be provided to evaluate the requirements of regional offices taking into account the regional characteristics (demographic, economic…etc.) • The tasks and responsibilities of regional offices will be re-defined considering the possible data demands of local authorities and private sector. EU/local experts will advise on which tasks can be handled by each regional office. • A report will be prepared by the EU/local experts on the training requirements of the staff in regional offices. • The staff of regional offices will participate in training activities determined. 5. Linked activities A sub-project has been implemented in the concept of USST Phase I which has been titled as “Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening”. The project aimed at provision of EU consultancy on assessment and recommendations for improving the SIS administrative organization. This activity which has not been realized yet will provide an overall vision about the organizational structure of SIS. However the projects under USST Phase II are more specific and will act as complementary to the previous project.


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Component 14: Project Implementation Team 1. Objectives

1.1. Overall Objective(s): • To provide technical and administrative support for all components of the USST Programme.

1.2.Project Purpose: • To set up the Project Implementation Team with their required equipment, • To report on PIT activities, • To support the overall co-ordination of USST Program, • To provide administrative support for all other components of the USST Program, • To support the SIS in daily operation of the grant, • To support to the SIS in administration, accounting and reporting of grant, • To verify that other activities of the USST program support and do not contradict activities

under the MBP, • To review interlinks and co-operation between the statistical units aiming a better circulation of

information flow, • To provide SIS with methods for a gradual and progressive integration of the Turkish Statistical

System into the European Statistical System. 2. Background and justification: For the first program of upgrading Turkish Statistical System a project implementation team was set up for overall management of all components of the programme. During the implementation period SIS has got comprehensive knowledge on project management. Experience of the SIS on project management will be transferred to the second payees. 3.Results • The support to the Senior Programme Officer by the EU Management Advisor has been effective,

in particular for the preparation of the Global Implementation Plan and the Annual Workplans; • The implementation of the Annual Workplans has been followed up and their objectives achieved; • The programme administrative and financial follow up instruments have been set up, in

accordance with the Commission rules; • The implementation of all sub-projects has been followed up and coordinated by the PIT in an

efficient and effective way; • The co-ordination with projects financed out of other sources of financing (MEDSTAT, bilateral

co-operation, International Organizations, etc) has been done properly; • Co-ordination with relevant other producers and users of statistics in Turkey has been done and

they have been involved in the USST Programme; • All statistical projects have been implemented according to the acquis communautaire; • All reports have been provided on a regular basis and approved by the SPO and the Commission; • The accounts of the facility have been held according to EC rules; • Technical and financial reports and replenishment requests have been prepared according to the

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4. Activities (including Means) • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will provide support to the Senior Programme Officer (SPO)

for the preparation of the annual work plans and follow up of their implementation. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will set up the programme administrative and financial follow

up instruments. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will follow up and co-ordinate all components of the USST

programme. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will follow up of the overall budget of the USST and its

implementation. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will co-ordinate the USST programme with other source of

statistical co-operation with Turkey including the MEDSTAT Programme, other international organization projects, and Eurostat.

• EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will co-ordinate with other producers and users of statistics in Turkey (Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture…) involved in the USST Programme.

• EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will ensure that through all activities, the acquis communautaire is implemented.

• EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will prepare all financial and technical reports • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will prepare reports on the overall progress of the entire USST

Programme. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will undertake other co-ordination tasks related to all the

programme components. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will keep the accounts of the facility and reporting on it. • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will support to the Coordination of the participation of SIS in

the Multi-Beneficiary Programme for Statistics (MBP). • EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will support the SIS in preparing a similar contract dossier for

the 2003 Pilot Project and the 2004 Pilot Project. The tendering for the 2003 Pilot projects and the 2004 Pilot Project will be arranged by Eurostat.

• EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will follow up the implementation of the pilot projects, coordinating activities in relation with SIS and the Phare contractors. Therefore, the PIT will act as an interface between SIS and the Phare contractors and other partners.

• EUMA and the assistant of EUMA will support the preparation of monthly work programmes and their approval procedure by the Contracting Authority.

5. Linked activities For the first program of Upgrading Turkish Statistical System a project implementation team was set up for overall management of all components of the programme.

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