TURKSTAT, in a written statement, “the calculation of pensions” in some media and social media accounts in the news and shares of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) announced for Istanbul Chamber of Commerce and CPI comparison with the CPI in the last 3 years in the form of inflation in the form of 31 percent of the “scientific,” allegations of the allegations.
In the statement stated that the allegations were made with the effort of “political motives and consciously creating perception”, the following statements were given:
“CPI prepared and published by TURKSTAT CPI and ITO wage subsistence index (1995 = 100) base years, substance definition and diversity, classification type, weight structure, geographical scope, calculation methods, the income groups they address, the comparison of these two index does not produce meaningful results. The Price Index has started to publish a new index. “
In the statement, among the allegations, the president of the institution and the regional managers of the regional managers’ appointments of the purpose of “manipulation” pointed out that the unfounded expressions, “TURKSTAT President, like other similar appointments of the Presidential Decree for a certain period of time. It has been assigned to the task changes as claimed. ” evaluation.
“Internet data has limited weight in inflation calculation”
In addition, the “web scraping” method of the data obtained by the CPI price data is only 5 percent of the transfer of the statement said, inflation calculation in the calculation of internet data has a limited weight said.
In the statement, TURKSTAT collected price data from the field, barcode data and many different sources.
“Contrary to the alleged, TURKSTAT web scraping data is obtained automatically and daily, does not open these data to the manual input in any way, does not instruct the regional directorates in this direction and follow the same products through regular intervals throughout the year. According to the data compiled from the field, we offer all our legal rights to the public. “
