1. Outbound Tourism Statistics in Turkey
(Arriving Citizens Survey)
Regional Workshop On “Tourism Statistics And Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA)”
2–4 December 2014
SESRIC Headquarters, Ankara – Republic of Turkey

2. Contents Legal basis History Purposes Frame Geographic Scope
Population Scope
Data Collection

3. Contents Sample Size Reference Period Variables Collected
Survey Application Processes
Dissemination

4. Arriving Citizens Survey Legal Basis
In accordance with the 5429 numbered and dated law
History
conducted since 2003
joint work of Turkish Statistical Institute with Central Bank and Ministry of Culture and Tourism

5. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Purposes
to collect the data on arriving citizen visitors resident in Turkey;
profiles (province resident in, age, gender, educational status, working status, income level),

6. Purposes Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
travel characteristics (purpose of the travel, place visited, types of accommodation, number of overnights),
amount of expenditure,
and to estimate tourism expenditure.

7. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Frame
Monthly border figures of General Directorate of Security – arriving citizens
Geographic Scope
22 active border gates; 5 airports, 1 international railway, 9 ports, 7 land border gates

8. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Population Scope Citizen visitors (residents in Turkey) arrived to Turkey who made an overnigth stay in abroad

9. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Data collection
Arriving citizens survey conducted by face to face interview
Sample Size
Annually personal interviews

10. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Reference Period Applied Quarter I: January-February-March February Quarter II: April-May-June May Quarter III: July-August-September August Quarter IV: October-November-December November Data analysing and evaluation is done by using SAS statistical software

11. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
Variables collected
Place of residence
Gender
Age
Educational level

12. Variables collected Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
Working status
Level of income
Main purpose of the trip
Overnight or same day visit

13. Variables collected Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
Types of accommodation
Number of persons whose expenses are paid
Total duration of the visit
The trip covers other countries or not

14. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Variables collected
Type of organization of the trip
Package tour prices
Individual expenditures by type of expenditures during the trip abroad.

15. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
Survey application processes
Sample interviews with arriving citizen tourists using various routes of arrival
Regional offices of TurkStat operate in the border gates
Field operation months February, May, August, November

17. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued)
Survey application processes
Data entry of questionnaires by regional offices web web based data entry programme
Consistency checks and controls during data entry in web based program
Data analysis by SAS quaries both by regional offices and tourism statistics group
Survey has been carried out at total of 22 border gates according to departure way which approximately includes 90% of total departure.

19. Arriving Citizens Survey (continued) Dissemination Press releases t+28 days (quarterly) Publication CD t+7 months (annually) Web t+28 days (quarterly) SURVEY SHEET FOR THE CITIZEN ARRIVING

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