The number of wage earners decreased by 128 thousand in February

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced the statistics of paid employees for February 2023.

Consequently, the total number of paid employees in the industry, construction and service trade sectors increased by 6.6 percent in February 2023 compared to the same month of the previous year.

While the number of wage earners was 13,614,855 people in the same month of the previous year, it rose to 14,515,554 people in February 2023.

Looking at the sub-details of paid employees; In February 2023, the number of paid employees increased by 4.2% in the industrial sector, by 15.4% in the construction sector and by 6.7% in the commercial and services sector.

NUMBER OF SHARED EMPLOYEES DECREASED 128K MONTHLY

According to TUIK data, the number of salaried employees in the industry, construction and commercial services sectors decreased by 128 thousand on a monthly basis in February 2023 on unadjusted data and remained stable on seasonally adjusted data.

Looking at the sub-details of paid employees; In February 2023, wage earners increased 0.1 percent per month in the industrial sector, remained unchanged in the construction sector and the commercial services sector.

EFFECT OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND EXPLANATION OF THE METHOD

In the report published by TURKSTAT, it was noted that statistical methods were used for the missing observations in the calculations due to the earthquake experienced in February in the statistics and the effect of the earthquake was not expected to be seen in the announced results.

The following statements were included in the report on the subject:

Force majeure was declared in the provinces affected by the seismic disaster experienced by our country and the declarations were postponed. For this reason, in the February 2023 calculations, missing observations were estimated using statistical methods. The proportion of the size estimated by these methods in the total is 4.29 percent. Since people who work at least one day in the reference month and are paid for their work are considered within the scope of employment, an earthquake effect is not expected in the results announced in this bulletin.