The aim of this study it is to make estimations on the numerical aspects of international
migration by using the 2000 census results. Starting with the 1975 census, the question of: “How many
members of this household who are not in the house now are a) in the country? b) abroad?” was asked
to every household head regularly each census. Using this data, and assuming that the people who are
in abroad in the census day but reported as part of the households in Turkey as migrants, the number
of emigrants was estimated from 2000 census. Although it is a crude and incomplete way of defining
emigration, this limited definition had proven to provide meaningful and significant information in the
past. By using the answers to this question, we will be able to cover a part of emigrants with the
exception of those who migrated abroad as whole household units will not be included.
Another aim of this study is to present the differentiations between traditional five regions of
DHS surveys and for all three NUTS (The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) levels
constructed by State Planning Organization and State Institute of Statistics as part of the efforts of
statistical adaptations to European Union.