The determinants of participation to the gün activities (The case of Afyonkarahisar)

The purpose of this study is to examine potential determinants of gün activities (Social days) in Afyonkarahisar providence. A model which contains income, age, education, employment, number of employed in the household, number of children and marital status is constructed. Data is obtained from a survey conducted for 425 women. The model is estimated using Logit and Probit, also Chi-Square test is applied. The results of Logit and Probit models indicate that while age, education and whether or not a woman is married increases the probability of participating gün activities, whether or not a woman is employed reduces probability of participating gün activities in a statistically significant ways. Other variables do not have statistically significant effect on the probability of participating gün activities. The results of Chi-Square test reveal that gün activities make women more sociable and is an important tool to spend their spare time usefully. Increasing the family saving is one of the economic aspect of gün activities.