May 1, 2023

Economic Confidence Index in Türkiye, April 2023

Economic confidence index realized as 102.2

Economic confidence index which was 98.8 in March increased by 3.5% in April to 102.2.

Consumer confidence index increased by 9.2% and became 87.5, real sector (manufacturing industry) confidence index increased by 1.0% and became 105.1, services confidence index increased by 1.1% and became 118.1 in April compared to the previous month. On the other hand, retail trade confidence index decreased by 1.3% and became 116.2, construction confidence index decreased by 0.1% and became 88.4 in April

Economic confidence index, confidence indices and the rate of changes, April 2023

Index Percentage change over
the previous month (%)
March April March April
Economic confidence index 98.8 102.2 -0.2 3.5
Consumer confidence index 80.1 87.5 -2.9 9.2
Real sector confidence index 104.1 105.1 1.7 1.0
Services confidence index 116.8 118.1 1.1 1.1
Retail trade confidence index 117.7 116.2 -4.4 -1.3
Construction confidence index 88.5 88.4 -1.5 -0.1

Index values are seasonally adjusted. There is no seasonal effect in the consumer confidence index.

The next release on this subject will be on May 29, 2023.
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EXPLANATIONS

Economic confidence index is a composite index that encapsulates consumers’ and producers’ evaluations, expectations and tendencies about general economic situation. The index is combined by means of a weighted aggregation of sub-indices of consumer confidence, seasonally adjusted real sector, services, retail trade and construction confidence indices.

In the calculation of economic confidence index, each sectoral weights are not directly applied to the five confidence indices themselves but to their normalised individual sub-indices series as equally-distributed in each sector. Within this scope, totally 20 sub-indices of confidence indices for consumer, real sector, services, retail trade and construction are used in the calculation.

Sub-indices used in the calculation of economic confidence index are calculated with data collected in the first two weeks of each month.

It indicates an optimistic outlook about the general economic situation when economic confidence index is above 100, whereas it indicates a pessimistic outlook when it is below 100.


Source: Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat)
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