Turkish Social Economy Indicators for Cooperatives and Associations, 2009–2024

Annual time-series data from 2009 to 2024 tracks the structural evolution of the social economy in Turkey. The dataset decomposes the sector into market-based cooperatives and non-market associations and foundations, using official administrative records and TurkStat data. It was created by Volkan Isak of Hacettepe University for an econometric analysis submitted to the Review of Social Economy.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the growth of the non-market sector relative to the market-based social economy based on counts of associations and foundations.
• Modeling the relationship between cooperative employment and national employment trends based on `coop_emp` and `employment` variables.
• Studying the real economic output of cooperatives and associations over time based on CPI-deflated turnover and income figures.
• Investigating structural transformation in an emerging economy using decomposed social economy components mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a 16-year time span from 2009 to 2024.
• Decomposes the social economy into distinct market and non-market components.
• Includes real (inflation-adjusted) economic measures for cooperatives and associations.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Official administrative records, TurkStat, Directorate General of Civil Society Relations, General Directorate of Foundations.

Collection Method

Data compilation from official sources for econometric analysis.

Time Range

2009–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 07:59:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turkey