Sample characteristics: Turkey
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | The 1985 General Population Census |
| Statistical agency | State Institute of Statistics of Turkey |
| Population universe | The total population at localities where they are physically present on the census day. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | October 20, 1985 |
| Field work period | Single day of enumeration |
| Questionnaire | Single form with 4 sections: address information, dwelling type information, household questions, and personal characteristics. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic random sampling by province |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2507758 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Place where people reside. |
| Households | That collectivity composed of one or several people, whether bound by kinship or not, living in the same house or in a portion of the same house, sharing in the provision of service or in the management of the household, who do not separate their income and expenses among themselves. People lacking a kinship bond among themselves, but who live together on a continuous basis for various reasons and make no distinction among themselves in terms of their expenses and earnings, are considered to be households. |
| Collective dwellings | Military barracks, jails, hospitals, clinics, boarding schools, prisons, transit stations, factories, embassies. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | The 1990 General Population Census |
| Statistical agency | State Institute of Statistics of Turkey |
| Population universe | The total population within the boundaries of the country on the day of enumeration at localities where they were physically present on the census day. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | October 21, 1990 |
| Field work period | Single day of enumeration |
| Questionnaire | Single form with 4 sections: address information, dwelling type information, household questions, and personal characteristics. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic random sampling by province |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2817455 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Place where people reside. |
| Households | That collectivity composed of one or several people, whether bound by kinship or not, living in the same house or in a portion of the same house, sharing in the provision of service or in the management of the household, who do not separate their income and expenses among themselves. People lacking a kinship bond among themselves, but who live together on a continuous basis for various reasons and make no distinction among themselves in terms of their expenses and earnings, are considered to be households. |
| Collective dwellings | Military barracks, jails, hospitals, clinics, boarding schools, prisons, transit stations, factories, embassies. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | The 2000 General Population Census |
| Statistical agency | State Institute of Statistics of Turkey |
| Population universe | All the persons present at places that constitute a household, that do not constitute a household like dormitories, military quarters, prisons, hospitals, hotels, etc., and the nomadic population (thus all the population within the boundaries of the country on the census day). |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | October 22, 2000 |
| Field work period | Single day of enumeration |
| Questionnaire | Single form with 4 sections: address information, dwelling type information, household questions, and personal characteristics. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic random sampling by province |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 3388218 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Place in which people are living/ being sheltered, or are present on census day like a detached house; an apartment flat; a prefabricated house; a tent, a shack, etc.; a hotel, motel, hostel; a train, a boat, a bus, a terminal, etc.; a hospital, a health clinic; a military post, garrison, an officer's club, etc.; a boarding school, a dormitory; a child daycare facility, an orphanage, a nursing home; a prison, a reform school, or other places (a factory, an official office, an embassy, etc.). |
| Households | Social entities made up of one or more persons, whether bound by kinship or not, living in the same dwelling or in a portion of the same dwelling, participating in the provision of service or management to the household, who make no distinctions among themselves in terms of their income or expenses. |
| Collective dwellings | Places such as a hotel, a motel, a hostel, a train, a boat, a bus, a train station, a terminal, a port, a hospital, a health clinic, a military post, a garrison, an officer's club, a boarding school, a dormitory, a nursing home, a child daycare facility, an orphanage, a jail, a reform school, and others (a factory, an official office, an embassy, etc.). |