| We have completed the qualitative field study in Malatya Yeni Hayat Container City Hayat Well-Being Center (HİYM) conducted within the bounds of Hacettepe University Services Impact Assessment Research 2024-03-18 14:00:00 |
| Gloria Nibogore and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Eryurt from our Department of Demography published their article titled "Women’s Empowerment and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Rwanda" in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2024-03-11 14:00:00 |
| A new paper, "Impact of financial assistance on stunting: Syrian refugee children under 5 in Türkiye", co-authored by Meryem Ay Kesgin, Melike Saraç, Nils Grede, Alanur Cavlin and İsmet Koç has just been published in the Journal of Biosocial Science. 2024-02-15 10:00:00 |
| Dr. Melike Saraç from our Department of Social Research Methodology has just published an article titled "Does respondent motivation affect item-nonresponse for split-ballot designed survey data? Comparative evidence from the European Social Survey"
2024-02-14 10:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Eryurt, faculty member of our Department of Demography wrote on "Why are the latest population statistics of Türkiye so thought-provoking?" 2024-02-07 10:00:00 |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu from our department of Social Research Methodology contributes to the "Checklist for ensuring the quality of violence against women surveys." 2024-01-30 14:00:00 |
| Hande Hacımahmutoğlu has recently defended her dissertation, "Utilizing Mixed Methods in Social Capital Research" and has been conferred PhD degree in Social Research Methodology. 2024-01-19 15:00:00 |
| İbrahim Emre İlyas, PhD candidate from the Department of Demography, has successfully defended his dissertation titled "Assessment of Inequality of Opportunity Trends for Children in Türkiye: 1993-2018" and earned the PhD degree. 2024-01-15 13:00:00 |
| Beyza Kübra Çıtlak from our Department of Demography has successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled “Demographic Characteristics of Syrian Refugees with Respect to Housing Conditions in Turkey” and earned her degree. 2023-12-29 15:00:00 |
| We celebrated the 10th year of the Department of Social Research Methodology with two sessions of panels on research methodology's past, future, and challenges and PhD dissertations carried out in the department! 2023-12-15 14:00:00 |
| Dr. Faruk Keskin, from our Department of Demography, has participated in The Winter School on Population Heterogeneities, held on 4-5 December, 2023, organized by the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. 2023-12-08 14:00:00 |
| In Ağrı, we have completed the focus group sessions for the qualitative phase of the 2023 Türkiye Youth Survey. 2023-11-24 14:00:00 |
| Kardelen Güneş, Research Assistant from our Department of Demography, partook in United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)'s workshop titled “Youth Indices: Unlocking the Power of Evidence and Participation for Demographic Resilience” held in Tbilisi between 15-17 November, 2023. 2023-11-18 15:00:00 |
| Mümine Barkçin, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate from our Department of Social Research Methodology has participated in the Sixth International Higher Education Studies Conference run in Fenerbahçe Üniversitesi with her presentation titled "Ensuring Researcher Wellbeing in Fieldwork Studies" 2023-10-21 15:00:00 |
| 2023 Türkiye Youth Survey preparations are underway! After the questionnaire training we held on September 14-15, we successfully completed the preliminary test on September 21. 2023-09-27 13:00:00 |
| Our Institute's faculty members and students participated in the Xth Sociology Congress held at Galatasaray University on 20-22 September 2023. 2023-09-26 13:00:00 |
| Nur Koyuncu, a Master's student from our Department of Demography, has today successfully defended her thesis titled "Well-being in Older Migrants and Non-migrants in Germany: A Specific Look at Health and Poverty Dimension" and earned the Master's Degree. 2023-09-05 11:00:00 |
| "Demographic microsimulation model for Türkiye" a co-authored paper by our PhD student Barış Dulkadir and our faculty member Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Eryurt, has just been published in OPUS 2023-08-02 15:00:00 |
| One of our faculty members of our Social Research Methods Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu has joined to the “Expert Meeting on the Survey Measurement of Non-Partner Sexual Violence”. The expert meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, between 18-19 July 2023, in partnership with the World Health Organization and UN Women. 2023-08-02 15:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç and Dr. Melike Saraç, academic members of our Institute, have participated in ESRA23 Conference that was held in Italy, Milan, and presented their papers. Additionally, Dr. Sarac organized and chaired the session given below. 2023-07-21 15:00:00 |
| "Education and domestic violence: Evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey" a co-authored paper by Mustafa Özer, Jan Fidrmuc, and Mehmet Ali Eryurt, has been published in Kyklos. 2023-07-05 15:00:00 |
| "Changing Fertility Preferences in Türkiye: Analysis by Parity", a joint paper by Assis. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören and Prof. Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz has just been published in the Journal of Social Policy Studies. 2023-07-03 12:00:00 |
| Mümine Barkçin, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate from our Department of Social Research Methodology has partaken in #ReMO2023 with her presentation titled "Researcher Well-Being in the Context of Fieldwork Studies", which took place in Budapest.
2023-06-15 12:00:00 |
| We had Dr. Hassan Mohtashami, UNFPA Türkiye Representative, in today's session of our Demography Conferences series for his speech titled “Reproductive Health Rights and Demography”. 2023-06-02 14:00:00 |
| "The Making of a 'Lost Generation': Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey", the joint paper by Meltem Dayıoğlu, Murat Güray Kırdar and İsmet Koç has just been published in the International Migration Review. 2023-05-05 11:00:00 |
| The report of our project titled "Revisiting Maternal Mortality: What Qualitative Research Says", which we carried out in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Turkey) has been published! 2023-05-02 16:00:00 |
| The Turkish Journal of Population Studies is now accepting articles for the 2023 issue via DergiPark. 2023-05-01 15:00:00 |
| "Measuring Social Capital for Turkey Using Time-Use Survey Data", an article by PhD Candidate Hande Hacımahmutoğlu and Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu from our Department of Social Research Methodology, has just been published in the Journal of Sociological Research. 2023-04-30 15:00:00 |
| As a partner, our institute is kicking off the ambitious project #PREMIUM_EU: "Can remote regions in Europe benefit from global migration?". Funded by EU Horizon, the project is aimed at exploring flows of migration, regional development and policy potentials. 2023-04-12 15:00:00 |
| We had Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Dildar in today's session of our Demography Conferences series for her study titled “The Effect of Pronatalist Rhetoric on Women’s Fertility Preferences in Turkey”. 2023-04-04 16:00:00 |
| Zehra Yayla Enfiyeci, a Research Assistant and a Ph.D. candidate from our Department of Demography, has successfully defended her dissertation titled "Recent Changes in Mortality Trends and Patterns: Cause of Death Analysis of Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation in Turkey" and earned the Ph.D. degree. 2023-03-10 10:00:00 |
| "Causes of death in Turkey: How the increase in the burden of communicable diseases vary by sex and age?", a joint paper by our research assistant Zehra Yayla Enfiyeci and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alanur Çavlin from our Department of Demography has just been published in the ESTÜDAM Halk Sağlığı Dergisi. 2023-01-18 10:00:00 |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. Melike Saraç's study titled “A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Quality of Social Surveys: Total Survey Error” has been published in the Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences. 2022-12-30 11:00:00 |
| Our participants have presented policy recommendations based on the findings of our collaborative study titled "Thematic Analysis on Reproductive Health Issues: 1993-2018", which is supported by the United Nations Population Fund Türkiye (UNFPA Türkiye) on the last day of our meeting. 2022-12-24 13:00:00 |
| We completed the first day of our meeting on December 23, where we shared the results of our study titled “Thematic Analyses on Reproductive Health Issues: 1993-2018”, which we carried out in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund Türkiye (UNFPA Türkiye). 2022-12-23 13:00:00 |
| Faruk Keskin, our research assistant and PhD candidate from our Department of Demography, has today successfully defended his dissertation titled "Fertility Heterogeneity in Turkey" and earned the PhD degree! 2022-12-22 22:00:00 |
| We have gathered on the occasion of Prof. Dr. Banu Ergöçmen's retirement, who is one of our academic members. We would like to thank Prof. Ergöçmen for her contribution to our Institute and its staff and wish her a healthy and peaceful retirement life. 2022-12-21 22:00:00 |
| We had Dr. Muhammet Toprak in today's session of our Demography Conferences series for his study titled “Ottoman Court Records and Probate Inventories as a Source for Demographic History: An Analysis on 18th Century Ottoman Istanbul”. 2022-12-19 17:00:00 |
| Ceren Baydur, a Master's student from our Department of Demography, has successfully defended her thesis titled "The Change of Non-Muslim Populations of Ankara from 19th to 20th Century" and earned her Master's Degree! 2022-12-16 17:00:00 |
| We had Dr. Rengin Aktar in today's session of our Demography Conferences series for her study titled "Ready–Willing–Able: Early childhood Mortality Decline in Turkey". 2022-12-12 16:00:00 |
| Sılacan Bingöl, a Master's student from our Department of Social Research Methodology, has today successfully defended her thesis titled "A Discussion for Online and Face-to-Face In-depth Interviews" and earned her Master's Degree! 2022-12-12 16:00:00 |
| Selected findings of the project titled "Roles Attributed to Women in Turkey and the World: Analyses of Attitudes and Politics with Data Mining Methods" supported by Hacettepe University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit have been presented by the project team composed of Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anıl Boz Semerci and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duygu İçen. 2022-12-08 14:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç's study titled "Determining the changes in the prevalence of consanguineous marriages and resistant Groups in Turkey: Analyses by marriage cohorts from the 2018 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey" has been published in the Turkish Journal of Public Health. 2022-12-02 14:00:00 |
| We shared the results of our collaborative study "Revisiting Maternal Mortality: What Qualitative Research Says" supported by the United Nations Population Fund Türkiye (UNFPA Türkiye), at a well-attended meeting with academics, experts from the public sector, and NGOs. 2022-11-29 10:00:00 |
| "Demographic Education Series: Demographic Indicators and Sustainable Development Goals" which we organized in cooperation with UNFPA Turkey Office, was held at our Institute between 21-25 November 2022.
2022-11-25 10:00:00 |
| “International Day For The Elimination of Violence Against Women” Panel was held with the moderation of Okan Bayülgen and participation of Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel Kaptanoğlu from our institute, Head of EU Delegation to Türkiye, Ambassador Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström, and Clinical Psychologist Prof. Dr. Ceylan Daş. 2022-11-25 10:00:00 |
| We have started our preparations for the qualitative phase of the Turkey Youth Research, which we will carry out in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund Türkiye. 2022-11-02 11:00:00 |
| "Mixed Methods in Educational Sciences: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Master’s Theses", a joint paper by our research assistant Yaser Koyuncu and Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu from our Department of Social Research Methodology has just been published in the Hacettepe University Journal of Education. 2022-11-01 16:00:00 |
| Dr. Hilal Arslan from our Social Research Methodology department, delivered a presentation titled "Gender Data Generated with Using Household Surveys" in the "Gender and Development Conversation Series", an event organized by UNDP Türkiye. 2022-10-20 14:00:00 |
| The session “Interviewer-Assisted or Not? Strengths and Drawbacks of Mode Transitions in Times of Crisis“ proposed by Asst. Prof. Melike Sarac from our department of Social Research Methodology for the 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) which will take place in Milan, Italy, between July 17-22, 2023; has been scheduled in the program. 2022-10-19 13:00:00 |
| The studies of our project titled "Demographical Integration and Differentiation Levels of the Romani Population in Turkey and Policy Priorities" and supported by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program has started. 2022-10-14 16:00:00 |
| The vice-director of our institute, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Eryurt held an interview today about our institute, demographic and health surveys and the importance of midwives in the health system with the students of the Gülhane Faculty of Health Sciences Midwifery Program . 2022-10-07 20:00:00 |
| Abdirahman Saeed Mohamed, a Ph.D. candidate from our Department of Social Research Methodology, has successfully defended his thesis titled "Investigating Mechanisms of Social Desirability Bias in Self-Administered Surveys" and earned his Ph.D. degree. 2022-10-03 14:00:00 |
| The studies of 2023 Turkey Youth Survey, which will be carried out in cooperation with our Institute and the United Nations Population Fund Turkey (UNFPA Turkey), has started. 2022-10-03 10:00:00 |
| Our institute director, Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç was interviewed by Anatolian Agency on the occasion of October 1, World Elderly Day. 2022-09-30 14:00:00 |
| “Cohort fertility heterogeneity during the fertility decline period in Turkey”, a joint paper by Research Assistant Faruk Keskin and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alanur Cavlin from our Demography department has been published in the Journal of Biosocial Science.
2022-09-29 16:00:00 |
| Barış Dulkadir and Emil Pålsson from the UN Resident Coordinator's Office; Levent Eksi and Elif Eser Mooty from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency; Selçuk Sertesen from UNDP; Luis Pinedo Caro from the ILO; Gökhan Yalçın from UN Women; İbrahim Emre İlyas from FAO held a meeting with our Institute director Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç and our vice-director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Eryurt on the activities of the institute and potential cooperation opportunities. 2022-09-27 16:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. Ayşe Banu Ergöçmen, our faculty member of the Department of Demography, made a presentation titled "Migration and Population: Fertility of Syrian Women under Temporary Protection" on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at the Migration Seminars organized by the Presidency of Migration Management. 2022-08-11 16:00:00 |
| Kardelen Güneş, our research assistant from the Department of Demography, has successfully defended her master's thesis titled "Exploring the Relation between Women's Empowerment & Reproductive Independence of Syrian Refugees in Turkey" and earned her master's degree. 2022-08-10 15:00:00 |
| Dr. Melike Saraç and Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç's collaborative work “Do Different Respondent Selection Methods Produce Different Survey Estimates? A Simulation of Within-Household Selection Methods for 2013 Turkey DHS” was published in PAUSBED-Social Sciences Publication and Research Special Issue-1. 2022-08-09 15:00:00 |
| “Thoughts on women entrepreneurship: an application of market basket analysis with google trends data”, a paper by Dr. Ayse Abbasoğlu Özgören et alia, has been published in Soft Computing. 2022-08-08 15:00:00 |
| Our MA graduate Müşerref Erdoğan and Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören from our department of Demography have published a paper titled "Partnership Transitions among Turkish Immigrants and their Descendants in Western Germany" in Comparative Population Studies. 2022-08-02 16:00:00 |
| The session "The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Family Life: Risks and Opportunities" proposed by Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç from our department of demography for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, which will take place in Melbourne, Australia, between June 25 and July 1, 2023; has been accepted in the program. 2022-07-18 12:00:00 |
| Our project proposal entitled “Demographical Integration and Differentiation Levels of the Romani Population in Turkey and Policy Priorities”, led by Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç as the project coordinator; Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören, Instructor Dr. Pelin Çağatay and Dr. Melike Saraç as the project researchers, and our doctoral student Kumru Döne as the scholarship student of the project; have been accepted for the TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program. 2022-07-08 13:00:00 |
| One of our Social Research Methods Department faculty members Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu has joined to the expert group meeting “Re-visiting safety and ethical recommendations for in-person and remote research on violence against women” as a consultant. The expert group meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, between 4-5 July 2022, in partnership with the World Health Organization and UN Women. 2022-07-06 14:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz attended the panel discussion "Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality: rethinking sampling strategies" organized by the UN-DESA and WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19, with his presentation on sampling strategies for major household surveys. 2022-07-06 09:00:00 |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören from our Demography department, has presented her study titled "Forced Migration and Fertility: Life-course Analyses on Women Fleeing from Syria to Turkey and Natives" at the European Population Conference 2022 held at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 2022-07-01 12:00:00 |
| As part of the Demographics Conferences, Dr. Berna Zülfikar-Savcı presented their collaborative work titled "Migration Trajectories and biographical projects of forced migrants in Turkey: a mixed methods approach" online.
2022-06-24 21:00:00 |
| As part of the Demography Conferences, Prof. Dr. Hanife Aliefendioğlu presented her study titled “Gender of Travel: A Media Analysis on Violence Against Foreign Women Traveling in Turkey”. 2022-06-10 16:00:00 |
| Prof. Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz, the head of Social Research Methodology department, introduced our Institute and graduate programs as a guest speaker in the event of METU Statistics and Data Science Society on June 2, 2022. 2022-06-02 13:00:00 |
| Joint paper of our Phd Student Cengiz Özkan and Prof Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz from the department of Social Research Methodology, titled "Effect of Complex Sample Design on Determining Common Variables in Statistical Matching Method for Social Research" has been published on Journal of Sociological Research. 2022-05-20 16:00:00 |
| Dr. Melike Saraç, from our department of Social Research Methodology, participated in American Association for Public Opinion Research's 77th Annual Conference on May 13, 2022 with her joint study "How Does Sleep Affect Recall Error?: A Complex Sample Design Adjusted Analysis from 2010 American Time Use Survey" presented by Lissandra Ellyne. 2022-05-13 16:00:00 |
| Prof Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz, head of our Social Research Methodology Department, has participated in Strait Talk TRT alongside Aaron O'Neill to discuss the aging population of Turkey. 2022-05-03 16:00:00 |
| Our Ph.D. candidate Tolga Balcı and Prof. Dr. A. Sinan Türkyılmaz, the head of our the Social Research Methodology department, have published a paper titled "Sıralı Karmaşık Metot Tasarımı ile Farklı Veri Toplama Yöntemlerinin Karşılaştırılması: Türkiye'deki Eğitim Fakülteleri Üzerine Bir Bakış". 2022-04-30 16:00:00 |
| Joint paper of Prof. Dr. İsmet Koç from our department of Demography, titled "Residential segregation by educational status in Turkey, 2013: Examining the association with political preferences" has been published on Population, Space and Place. 2022-04-11 16:00:00 |
| Prof.Dr. İsmet Koç, from the department of Demography, took part in the "Population Association of America 2022 Annual Meeting" conference with his work titled "The Making of a "Lost Generation: Child Labor Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey". 2022-04-08 11:00:00 |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu, from our department of Social Research Methodology, presented Qualitative Research Methods within the scope of "Academic Research Seminar Series II" organized by Başkent University. 2022-04-08 11:00:00 |
| The meeting about thematic studies that were conducted in cooperation with UNFPA on women's and reproductive health services, were presented and feedback was received from relevant experts and institutions. It was held at our Institute on March 28, 2022. 2022-03-28 11:00:00 |
| Our Ph.D. graduate Cansu Dayan and Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu from the Social Research Methodology department, have published a paper titled "Online Focus Groups and In-Depth Interviews: What Can Our Experiences Articulate?" 2022-03-22 16:00:00 |
