# **8. FINANCIAL INCLUSION BENCHMARK DASHBOARD –USER NOTES**

URL: http://dataviz.worldbank.org/t/ECA/views/tur_finance_equity_poverty7/Dshnew?:embed=y&:display_count=no#3

**_Financial Inclusion and Equity Benchmark Dashboard_**

**Access to finance allows for the smoothing of consumption, savings, management of money, and loans for purchases. Therefore it is important as an instrument against poverty and to boost shared prosperity. This dashboard explores the 2011 and 2014 FINDEX surveys to construct a panel of benchmarks accross countries to help decision makers better understand the specificities of several Financial Inclusion indicators in the context of Turkey**

## **<mark>Step 1. Select the Indicator and the Controls</mark>**

**Outcome Indicator  (Equity Adjusted Coverage Rate)**

Bank Account Ownership <!-- Start of picture text --> Turkey coverage: 57.601 Turkey coverage: 56.513<br>Turkey hoi: 43.953 Turkey hoi: 48.276<br>Turkey dindex: 15.969 Turkey dindex: 14.576<br><!-- End of picture text --> <!-- Start of picture text --> Control List<br>Controllist 2: age, education, gender, urban/rural, income quintiles<br>Take a quick look: Turkey's Bank Account Ownership<br>2011 2014<br>Turkey Turkey<br>57.60 56.51<br>43.95 48.28<br>15.97 14.58<br>Coverage Dissimilarity EACR Coverage Dissimilarity EACR<br><!-- End of picture text --> <!-- Start of picture text --> EACR Decomposition (Turkey as base country)<br>2011 2014<br>50<br>0<br>‐50<br>Three different sources of disparity amongst the equity adjusted<br>coverage rates of selected countries with respect to Turkey<br>Change<br>Composition Scale<br>Equalization<br><!-- End of picture text --> <!-- Start of picture text --> EACR Decomposition (Turkey as base country)<br>2011 2014<br>50<br>0<br>‐50<br>Three different sources of disparity amongst the equity adjusted<br>coverage rates of selected countries with respect to Turkey<br>Change<br>Composition Scale<br>Equalization<br><!-- End of picture text -->

## **<mark>Step 2. Select Country Comparators</mark>**

<!-- Start of picture text --> 2011 2014 2011 2014<br>The value of this dashboard is the possibility of the user to select comparison countries on<br>the basis of different criterias such as poverty level, GDP per capita, and national savings 50<br>as a share of GDP or on the basis of one of the financial inclusion indicators.<br>Choice of filter indicator (WDI, FINDEX)<br>GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $) 0<br>Filter: All (highlight countries to select them) ‐50<br>.<br>. TUR<br>17,188<br>. Measures the size of contribution of the selected dimensions to the Three different sources of disparity amongst the equity adjusted<br>dissimilarity index of each country coverage rates of selected countries with respect to Turkey<br>Dimensions Change<br>Age Gender Composition Scale<br>Enter Range 0.1427 to 127,213.12 Education Income Equalization<br>Source: LiTS; Global FINDEX; HICS; and, SILC. Dashboard produced as part of the background note to the Financial Inclusion Strategy for Turkey and Financial Inclusion Conference held in June 2014. Authors: João Pedro Azevedo , Judy Yang<br>and Osman Kaan Inan in collaboration with Alper Ahmet Oguz. and Ilias Skamnelos. Dashboard for comments.<br>For selecting country comparators: WDI indicators are averaged between 2008 and 2013 for avilable years. FINDEX indicators for selecting comparators represent values from FINDEX 2011.<br><!-- End of picture text --> 26