This research was conducted in Turkey in June-July 2009 as part of the first round of The Financial Crisis Survey. Data from 514 establishments was analyzed to quantify the effect of the 2008 global financial crisis on companies in this country. In Turkey, the target sample was restricted to the manufacturing sector.
Researchers revisited manufacturing establishments interviewed in Turkey Enterprise Survey 2008. Efforts were made to contact all respondents of the baseline survey to determine which of the companies were still operating and which were not. From the information collected during telephone interviews, indicators were computed to measure the effects of the financial crisis on key elements of the private economy: sales, employment, finances, and expectations of the future.