National Seminar on Developing a Program
for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and
Supporting Statistics in Turkey
Uğuzhan TÜRKOĞLU
10 September 2013
Ankara - Turkey
Official Statistics Dissemination Principles:
Official Statistics Programme;
• Determines the basic principles and standards of official
statistics
• Based on the Statistics Law of Turkey No 5429
• For a 5-year-period ( 2012- 2016 )
Official Statistics Dissemination Principles:
Principles:
• Performed by the Publication and Dissemination Board
• Obligation for Institutions/Organizations specified in the Programme
• Equal and Easy Access:
- Simultaneous
- Data / metadata on the web free of charge
• User Orientedness
- Understandable
- Satisfy users’ needs
- Different ways of presentations for different user groups(Children, woman etc.)
• Impartiality
- No privilege for any
• Transparency
- Methodology, time are open to users’ access
• Timeliness
- National Data Release Calendar
Organization of Dissemination and
Communication Department
Composed of 3 groups.
• Dissemination Group
• Publication Group
• Press Office
Dissemination Group
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Disseminate statistics to national and international users,
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Carry out User Satisfaction Survey,
Prepare User Evaluation Report,
Prepare Calendar for TurkStat Press Releases,
European Statistical Data Support,
National coordination of IMF SDDS (Special Data Dissemination
Standards),
EDAMİS - Electronic Data Files Administration and Management
Information System,
Library Service,
Micro Data Service
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Publication Group
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Determination of standards for publications,
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Control of publications in accordance with standards,
Secretariat service for Publication Committie,
Prepare Calendar for TurkStat publications,
Coordination of the content of the web page,
Designing the basics of the web page,
Fallow up the social media,
Fallow up web users,
Preparation of the Statistical Yearbook
Press Office
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Pressing and printing of several statistical products
Copying services,
Electronic archiving of printed products
Other print office services
TURKSTAT INFORMATION
SERVICES
Dissemination Channels
• Internet
• Fax
• Direct Application
• Mail
• e-Mail
• Telephone Information Line
• Teletext Broadcast
• Mobile Data Dissemination Service (SMS)
Internet
• Main dissemination channel
• Free of charge
• More than 1000 tables
• 60 different data categories
• All publications as PDF
• TurkStat Library via internet
http://www.turkstat.gov.tr
User Request Database
• Established for user oriented data
• A registeration system (subject,date,info
about the user )
• http://10.10.29.226:8080/Yyn/init.do
User Evaluation Report
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Derived from User Request Database
Assessment of efficiency of the information service
Annually
Shared with the staff via intranet
TurkStat User Survey
• provides us to learn users’ ideas about our Institution and
give better service
• Via internet
Composed of 4 parts
• General information (user)
• Using status of TurkStat data
• Perception and trust (confidentially and statistics)
• Evaluation
Satisfaction from the Web Page (%)
Satisfaction from the Pricing Policy (%)
Satisfaction from the Behaviour of Staff (%)
Satisfaction from Duration of Reply (%)
Future Works
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Faster dissemination
Integrated Metadata in dissemination
Improve the web page
More means of dissemination
– Call center
– Multimedia products
• Improve dissemination management
• Integrated dissemination management system
• Integrate international data dissemination
• IDD Inventory (like Edamis, SDDS etc),
THANK YOU
Dissemination and Communication Department