According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 78.3 points in October this year, decreased by 1.6 percent month on month in November, falling to 77.1 points. The confidence index for the Turkish construction sector fell for the eighth consecutive month in November on month-on-month basis, after three successive months of strong month-on-month increases recorded in the January-March period this year.
According to the indices based on individual questions asked of Turkish construction sector enterprise executives who own private businesses with 10 or more employees, in November this year the confidence index for construction activities recorded in the latest three months, which stood at 96.3 points in October, increased by 0.6 percent to 96.9 points.
In November, the current overall order books sub-index decreased by 0.9 percent to 69.5 points, while the sub-index for total employment expectations over the next three months decreased by 2.1 percent to 84.6 points, both compared to the previous month.
Meanwhile, in November this year, executives' expectations for sales prices in the next three months by increased one percent month on month to 99.3 points.
* Sectoral confidence index values range between zero and 200. When the index is above 100 it indicates an optimistic outlook about the current and the future period of the sector, when it is below 100 it points to a pessimistic outlook.