A Multiple Variables Data Analysis on the Relationship between Turkey’s Socio-Economic and Energy Indicators

Abstract

Turkey, as a candidate country for the EU, has to make significant regional plans about energy supply, investment and consumption patterns. This study aims to offer meaningful clusters of data at regional and local levels to identify how a balanced development of the cities located in various geographic regions of Turkey might be possible with the application of an efficient energy development policy. The analysis aims to facilitate development and investment plans by offering measurable and comparable energy production and consumption data of the cities and the regions. The main goal of this study, therefore, is to determine regional situation of energy indicators in Turkey by using the method of multiple variables data analysis. Basic regional energy, demographical and economical indicators such as gross generation, installed capacity, net energy consumption, provincial gross domestic income per person, are used in the analysis. The ultimate goal, based on the existing administrative structure of Turkey, and by using the selected social and economical indicators which reflect the development and also the indicators reflecting the energy structures of the 81 cities, is to reveal the energy structure of Turkey for public and private sectors.

Keywords

Energy, Policy, Statistical Methods

Citation

Çakır, M. Tarık, Sözen, Adnan and Yücesu, H. Serdar, “A Multiple Variables Data Analysis on the Relationship between Turkey’s Socio-Economic and Energy Indicators”, International Relations, Volume 5, Issue 20 (Winter 2009), pp. 27-56.

Affiliations

• M. Tarık Çakır, Dr., Gazi University, Department of Machinery
• Adnan Sözen, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Gazi University, Department of Machinery
• H. Serdar Yücesu, Prof. Dr., Gazi University, Department of Machinery