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The Overall Level Of Happiness in Turkey Increased by %4.7

In 2015, 56.6 percent of individuals said they were happy, which later increased to 61.3 percent in 2016. According to TÜİK’s Life Satisfaction Survey, the percentage of those who said they were unhappy with their lives in 2015 stood at 11.4 percent, which later decreased to 10.4 in 2016.

Women Are Merrier Than Men

While the level of happiness was marked 60.2 percent for females in 2015, the percentage increased to 64.5 percent in 2016. The level of happiness for males increased to 58.1 percent from 52.9 percent. When analyzed by age groups, the highest level of happiness was seen among those aged between 18 and 24, with 65.1 percent, while the lowest level of happiness was among those aged between 35 and 44 with 58.2 percent in 2016.

The Less Educated Are Content With Their Lives

According to TÜİK, school dropouts were revealed to have higher levels of happiness, with 63.5 percent of them reporting they were content, followed by primary school graduates with 62.9 percent, primary education or junior high school graduates with 61.4 percent, higher education graduates with 60.2 percent and high school and equivalent graduates with 57.8 percent, respectively.

When analyzed by gender, the survey noted that married females, who were 68.3 percent of the share, were happier than married males, with 60.8 percent. It gathered that married individuals were happier than unmarried individuals. While 64.7 percent of married individuals were happy, the share was 53.5 percent for unmarried ones in 2016.

Family Is The Center of Happiness

The statistics showed that families were a determining source of happiness for individuals. The percentage of individuals who mentioned that their families made them the happiest was 70.2 percent, while those with children where at 15.1 percent, spouse with 4.7 percent, parents with 3.6 percent, themselves with 2.7 percent, grandchildren with 1.9 percent and others with 1.7 percent.

Health was another factor that determined the happiness of individuals. While the percentage of individuals who mentioned that their health made them happiest was 72.1 percent, love was determinant of happiness with 14.6 percent, success with 7 percent, money with 3.2 percent, work with 2.3 percent and other values with 0.8 percent, respectively.

Transportation Is By Far The Best of Services

According to TÜİK, the level of satisfaction from public services in general had increased. When the overall satisfaction level of individuals was examined in more detail, it was observed that the highest increase occurred in the services of the Social Security Institution with 9.2 percentage points in 2016, according to the results. The highest satisfaction level was recorded in transportation services with 78.4 percent, followed with public security services with 75.7 percent, health services with 75.4 percent, Social Security Institution services with 67.9 percent, education services with 65.1 percent and judicial services with 57.9 percent, respectively, in 2016.

%76,8 Is Hopeful About Their Own Future

In addition, the survey said 76.8 percent of the individuals were hopeful about their own future. The percentage of individuals who were hopeful about their own futures was 74.4 percent in 2015, while the percentage increased to 76.8 percent in 2016. The percentage of females who said they were hopeful about their own futures was 74 percent in 2015, increasing to 76.7 percent in 2016. While the amount of males who were hopeful about their own futures was 74.7 percent in 2015, the number increased to 77 percent in 2016.

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Turkey’s unemployment rate rose to 12.1

Unemployment rate in Turkey rose to 12.1 percent in November 2016, marking the highest such rate since March 2010, official TÜİK data showed on Feb. 15.

The number of unemployed persons aged 15 years and above rose to 3.7 million in November 2016, 590,000 more than the same period of the previous year, pushing the unemployment rate to 12.1 percent with a 1.6 percentage point increase, according to Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) data.

While the youth unemployment rate, including persons aged 15-24, was 22.6 percent with a 3.5 percentage point increase, the unemployment rate for persons aged 15-64 was 12.3 percent with a 1.6 percentage point increase. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was also announced at 11.8 percent with a 0.1 percentage point increase. The number of employed people was 27.07 million in November 2016, up 391,000 from a year earlier. The labor force participation rate (LFPR) was 52.1 percent, up 0.9 percentage point or 980,000.

According to analysts, the rise in the participation to the labor force had an impact pushing up the unemployment rate, noting that a declining trend in the jobless rate was not expected in the short term.

According to TÜİK data, the number of agricultural employment decreased 101,000 persons while the number of non-agricultural employment increased 491,000 persons in this period. According to the distribution of employment by sector; some 18.7 percent was employed in agriculture, 19.6 percent was in industry, 7.4 percent was in construction and 54.2 percent was in services. Employment in agriculture decreased by 0.6 percentage point, industry decreased by 0.5 percentage point and construction decreased by 0.1 percentage point while services increased by 1.1 percentage point.

“Human Development Index – Public Opinion” E-Book Published

A new survey is published on the public opinion about Human Development. Named HDI-P, targets to quantify the public perception of Human Development and its criteria. Human Development Index – Public Opinion receives its data from interviews with individuals about their personal experience. The participants rated shelter (78.8) the most important component of Human Development, while social life (30.7) was voted the least important.

Under UNDP’s leadership, Human Development is a term getting more frequently used every day. UNDP sums up conditions which nurtures Human Development in four main branches: sociological inclusion, environmental sustainability, human rights and security and social justice. Under these conditions, life expectancy, mean years of schooling and income to sustain a decent life quality. The HDI-P study takes action from this point of view, asking peoples own experiences about life; what are the physical conditions like in their houses, can they benefit from health services, have they received the education they wanted, what opportunities does their income level facilitate? In other words, HDI-P inquiries about personal experience, rather than opinions about society as a whole.

HDI-P is a study based on professional field research

Literature review has been done prior to interviews, in order to construct a framework to measure Human Development. A new index system is developed, whereby a question sheet prepared and field interviews are systematically carried out. 61 questions examine 9 factors which contribute to HDI. The field work, financed by INGEV, was conducted using CATI system. 1660 interviews took place in 27 provinces between October-November 2016. Once this is over, HDI-P and its constituent factors identified through quantitative methods. Thus, the dataset is structured as an index and the resulting scores are analyzed.

Our HDI-P score is 59.3 out of 100: strongest subcomponent is shelter (78.8), the weakest is social life (30.7).

Turkey’s overall human development score is 59.3 out of 100. Unfortunately, comparison with previous results or different countries is not possible, as this study is first of its kind. Mathematically, the scores of 100 and 0 are maximum and minimum boundaries, whereas in practice they are unachievable. Our opinion is that 59.3 could be evaluated as a level higher than median but still promising more development.

The analyses revealed three components positively boosting the overall score. According to individuals’ experience, shelter (78.8), human security (74.3) and health (70.5) were the components contributing positively to overall HDI-P. In contrast, social life (30.7), personal finance (43.6) and education (46.3) were all drawbacks which remained very lower than the average.

One important message this work conveys is, on the regional scale, the Southeast was noted with critically lower human development experience. The region was awarded a mere 50.1, despite the national average 59.3 and much lower deviation from national average in other regions. Similarly, looking the 20-percentile distributions of HDI-P scores, the highest 20% of Turkey was rated 80.1 on average according to this metric. This score plummets down to 37 in the lowest 20% of the public, demonstrating a vast scale of disparity in terms of Human Development among the nation.

Among the sub-components of shelter (78.8), as previously mentioned highest among other components. The reasons behind this was the steady supply of fuel for heating and cooking purposes with only minor problems within the subject group. On the other hand, cleanliness residential areas (69.8) and noise pollution (65.3) were relatively more problematic, the results indicate.

Although reaching a high index score in total, human security raised the chronic concern of Turkish public. Many suffer from feeling under threat by terrorism (49.9). Besides, many don’t feel religious or ethnic pressures in neighborhood relationships (83.3) and enjoy freedom to practice their religion (83.3) showing the predisposition in our community in favor of reconciliation.

Health, one of the main components, achieved a score (70.5) of high development level too. Access to health services and the way these services are financed together influence this score positively. Nonetheless, food security was the lowest variable under health.

Throughout the whole survey, social life scored the lowest (30.7). Activities such as going to sporting events (17.7), attending art events (26.6) and various other activities revealed very low participation. The lowest 20-percentile in HDI-P, the social life score drops down to 6. We live introverted lives.

Personal finance was a component below the HDI-P average, pulling the overall HDI-P to lower levels. (43.6). Here, the most interesting point was, the cliff between the highest 20-percentile (86.1) and the lowest 20-percentile (8.4). Even the fourth 20-percentile group exhibited a very insufficient level (25.6). We can observe how income distribution is distorted. Assuming that income is the most fundamental factor determining life standard, this deformation probably requires greatest attention while enhancing life standards.

Third element dragging our HDI-P score down was education (46.3). Among the questions, the respondents confirmed that the system is vocationally biased, inducing pupils toward certain professions. Furthermore, they added that the education they received wasn’t targeted at developing their skills or talent. These experiences yielded to a low score.

Finally, social inclusion scored very close to the national average although its subcomponents resulted in high deviation. Here, some subcomponents were puzzling such as membership to societies, trusts or political parties (17.7), following the news from internet, newspaper or TV (46.9) o expressing opinion on social matters (33.3). Considering the current affairs surprisingly, almost no one reported that they feared pressure about their freedom of speech (88.4).

Turkey’s Population’s Increased Over One Million Compared To Last Year according to TUIK

Turkey’s population saw an increase of over one million compared to last year, reaching 79,814,871 people, the Turkish Statistics Institute announced on Jan. 31.

According to 2016 results from the records of Address Based Population Registration System, males made up 50.2 percent of the total population and females made up 49.8 percent.

The annual population growth rate increased to 13.5 per 1,000 in 2016 from 13.4 per 1,000 in 2015.

The proportion of those who are residing in provincial and district centers also increased to 92.3 percent in 2016 from 92.1 percent, while the proportion of the population living in small towns and villages was just 7.7 percent, according to the results.

The most populated province in the country was Istanbul with 14,804,116 inhabitants, making up 18.5 percent of Turkey’s population.

Istanbul was followed by the capital Ankara with 5,346,518 inhabitants, the Aegean province of İzmir with 4,223,545 inhabitants, the northwestern province of Bursa with 2,901,396 inhabitants, and the southern resort province of Antalya with 2,328,555 inhabitants.

The least populated province of the country was the eastern province of Tunceli with 82,193 inhabitants.
The median age of Turkey’s population increased to 31.4 in 2016 from 31 in 2015. The median age was 30.8 for males and 32 for females.

Provinces with the highest median ages were Sinop with 39.6, Balıkesir with 39.1, and Edirne with 38.8 respectively. Provinces with the lowest median ages were Şanlıurfa and Şırnak with 19.5, Ağrı with 20.5, Siirt with 20.8.

According to the TÜİK figures, the proportion of the population in the 15-64 working age group increased by 1.6 percent, becoming 68 percent in 2016. The proportion of children aged between 0 and 14 dropped to 23.7 percent and the proportion of the population aged 65 and over increased to 8.3 percent.

The population density, which is the number of people per square kilometer, increased by two persons compared to 2015, reaching to 104 in 2016. The province with the highest number of people per square kilometer was Istanbul with 2,849 people, followed by Kocaeli with 507, İzmir with 352, and Gaziantep with 290.

Tunceli had the smallest population density with 11 people per square kilometer, followed by Konya with 56 and Yalova with 285.

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Act*Human has ended amid large public turnout

Act*Human Summit, has been held at Swissotel with participation of 600 representatives from private sector, NGOs and academia. The participation of speakers met with great interest from the audience, where Başak Şengül was the master of ceremony.The summit opened with İNGEV Chairman Vural Çakır’s keynote speech.

The summit’s main goal was to set out a fresh and sincere glance at the relationship between corporations and human development. Among the speakers Emma Duncan, editor of The Economist’s 1843 magazine, emphasized on the importance of contribution from the enterprise while sustaining human development. Marcus Neto, Director of Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development, also reminded the integral role companies play in development in his speech, referring to the recent accomplishments the UNDP and bussiness world contributions while achieving progress in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Coca Cola Company Chairman Muhtar Kent made a video adress at the conference about “Future: Social Enterprise”

The speaker which gathered the largest media attention was perhaps, Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, the writer of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS which are among the most contraversial books of 21st Century. While summing up the brief history of past, Prof. Harari projected into the future explaining some of “The New Difficulties of 21st Century.”

INGEV Chairman Vural Çakır and HDI-D Project Coordinator Asst. Prof. Murat Şeker, talked about the most recent research developments at INGEV. The two presented the results of INGEV’s recent index of “Human Development Among Turkey’s 150 Districts”, finishing with the outcomes of the foundation’s research on “Public Perception of Human Development in Turkey”.

One of the other highlights of Act*Human was the art exhibition of “Refugee Artists and Children”. The pieces produced on the themes of “Happiness, Freedom and Encounter” were displayed throughout the conference. Students who contributed from six temporary education centers in Bahattin Yıldız High School were coordinated by renowned artist İsmail Acar.

The Summit has acted as a platform where companies and NGOs had an oppotunity to discuss human development, while understanding each other better. A mini-fair has enabled this with participation from 17 different NGOs, where representatives from these organisations connected live to the auditorium. At the end of the summit, the municipalities which ranked the highest in the foundation’s “Human Development Index – Districts” ranking were awarded by INGEV Chairman Vural Çakır.

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“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

The District’s Human Development Levels Have Been Announced
Human Development Index – Districts (HDI-D) Report was completed

INGEV’s Human Development Index (HDI) research among Turkey’s 150 districts is concluded. According to the published results, the districts with Very High Human Development (Green Category) are as follows:

İNGEV Chairman Vural Çakır comments: “Our team of experts has developed an objective mechanism to successfully evaluate our districts’ performance in HDI. More importantly, we are aiming to be able to identify the issues that require prioritized improvement in order to achieve higher development levels in future. With this framework, local administrations will have better insight as to the progress of human development in their area. Through cooperation with local administrators, we desire to identify strategies to advance in Human Development.” Abbreviated as HDI-D, the investigation included 150 districts from Turkey’s 30 metropolitan provinces. Factoring in social and economic variables at the district level, HDI-D includes 50 indices such as governance, social inclusion, income levels, education, health, social life, and transportation. Besides pure statistical data, information acquired through municipalities activity reports, official websites and “anonymous information requests.”

Lecturer at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Asst. Prof. Murat Şeker, who conducted this research: “The repetition of this research will set light to improvements in development and constitute a reference database of HDI, the where local administrations could benefit following their districts’ development.” Emphasizing on the role of local action plans in order to raise the overall development of Turkey and the responsibility that municipalities have in focusing their activities on this field, Şeker continued: “The local residents will benefit from the budgets and municipalities to the greatest extent if the local administrators put Human Development at the center of their strategies. According to the report, highest Human Development were reported in following the districts: Çankaya, Yenimahalle and Keçiören in Ankara; Kadıköy, Beşiktaş, Beyoğlu, Bakırköy, Şişli, Fatih, Ataşehir and Üsküdar in İstanbul; Muratpaşa and Konyaaltı in Antalya; Odunpazarı and Tepebaşı in Eskişehir; Nilüfer and Osmangazi in Bursa; and finally İzmit in Kocaeli.

Türkiye’de Yaşlı Bakım Hizmetlerinin Proaktif Yönü

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

The study was conducted in 2016 on behalf of Ministry of Family and Social Policies. The objectives of the study are determining geographical distribution of elderly population in Turkey and projecting the financial burden of elderly care services on public in the near future.

In the scope of the study a series of topics are covered including historical development of aging population in the world and Turkey, current situation and types of public care services offered to elderly population in Turkey and types of care service models in different countries. Beside background information about elderly population and care services, future operating and infrastructure cost of current care service models that provided by public sector are projected based on population projections of TUIK within the study.

Population projections estimate that every 10 people in 2023, 4 people in 2050 and 3 people in 2075 will be included in the elderly population in Turkey. The increase in life expectancy will lead to increase in the proportion of the eldest (85+ ages) among the elderly in the coming years. The increase in the average age of elderly population over time will increase the population requiring institutional care and health expenditures . When the aging speed of Turkey is compared with developed countries it is clear that Turkey has a limited time to plan the financial burden of aging and care services.

Public funded elderly care services in Turkey consist of cash aid and institutional care services covering a very limited number of elderly. As of 2015, only 1,7% of the 9,5 million elderly received a kind of public-based care.

In order to estimate financial costs of public funded elderly care services until 2023, three scenarios were run. In the first scenario, it is assumed that the demand for public care services will be at the same level as today and in the second scenario it will reach to OECD average. The third scenario estimates the demand according to statement of those who want to receive institutional care service in old age in TAYA 2011 research. All three projections show that if public care service model continues as it does today, it is very hard to meet the demand in the future and even if the demand can be met, operational and infrastructure costs will be extremely high.

This situation shows urgent need for reorganization of social services and introducing new care systems in Turkey. The study suggests four areas to improve elderly care services; easy access to elderly care services for all needy people, sharing the responsibility and care service delivery between central and local governments, organizational restructuring of health and social services for the joint delivery of services, diversification of elderly care services, primarily home care services.

Muhtar Kent will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of the global leaders of the business world, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca Cola Company, Muhtar Kent, will be at Act*Human Summit…

Muhtar Kent is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, a position he has held since April 2009. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer and earlier, President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Kent joined The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1978, holding a variety of marketing and operations leadership positions over the course of his career. In 1985, he became General Manager of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia. Beginning in 1989, he served as President of the Company’s East Central Europe Division and Senior Vice President of Coca-Cola International, with responsibility for 23 countries.

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World Bank Report on “Poverty and Shared Prosperity”

A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality may be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

According to the inaugural edition of Poverty and Shared Prosperity—a new series that will report on the latest and most accurate estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity annually—nearly 800 million people lived on less than US $ 1.90 a day in 2013. That is around 100 million fewer extremely poor people than in 2012. Progress on extreme poverty was driven mainly by East Asia and Pacific, especially China and Indonesia, and by India. Half of the world’s extreme poor now live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another third live in South Asia.

In 60 out of the 83 countries covered by the new report to track shared prosperity, average incomes went up for people living in the bottom 40 percent of their countries between 2008 and 2013, despite the financial crisis. Importantly, these countries represent 67 percent of the world’s population. (estimated 4.5 billion people)

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Harari will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Book – The author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Man Kind”, Yuval Noah Harari will be at Human Development Summit…

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”..

He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions:

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