| Target name | By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value |
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| Indicator name | Unemployment rate by sex and age group |
| Global / Proxy indicator | Global indicator |
| Description of indicator |
This indicator refers the unemployment rate by age group and sex. Unemployed: Comprises all persons 15 years of age and over who were not employed during the reference period, had used at least one channel for seeking a job during the last four weeks and were available to start work within two weeks. Before 2014, the reference period of job search was "last three months". Labour force: Comprises all employed persons and all unemployed. The unemployment rate is the ratio of unemployed persons within the labour force. |
| Unit | (%) |
| Available disaggregation | Sex, Age group |
| Calculation | Unemployment rate = (Unemployed persons / Total labour force) * 100 |
| Comparability | Series are not comparable with the previous years due to the new arrangements made since 2014. Produced in full compliance with global metadata. |
| Revision |
Household Labor Force Statistics were revised in 2014 and 2021.
The information form regarding the revisions to be made in the current year for the statistics produced within the scope of the Household Labor Force Statistics newsletter can be accessed from the link below: |
| Other information | - |
| Data source | TurkStat, Household Labour Force Survey |
| Data source link | https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Kategori/GetKategori?p=istihdam-issizlik-ve-ucret-108&dil=2 |
Household Labour Force Survey
| Sample coverage | The sampling frame is the National Address Database. The sampling unit of the survey is the address, and the observation unit is the household. The survey is applied to private households within the scope of the non-institutional population. The weekly (continuous) implementation of the Household Labor Force Survey required the creation of a new sample design. Two-stage, stratified cluster sampling method was used in the Household Labor Force Survey. A rotation pattern was created to provide 50% overlap on address basis between two consecutive periods and in the same periods of two consecutive years, and 8 sub-samples were used in each period. In the design of the study, the sample size to be applied in each period was equally distributed over the weeks. |
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| Sample size | The monthly sample size of the survey is 19 000 on average, while it is 58 000 per term. |
| Interview method | Computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) and Computer-assisted telephony (CATI) hybrid model |
| Reference period for application of survey | Continuous survey (A survey is applied every week of the year.) In continuous survey application, every week of the month starting with Monday and ending with Sunday is the reference week. |
| Field survey time and duration | Continuous survey (A survey is applied every week of the year.) |