“…Regarding the social capital measurement studies for Turkey, several studies analyse social capital across Turkey (Eşki-Uğuz et.al., 2011;Kızılkaya, 2017;Öztopçu, 2018); several studies analyse among countries (Akın & Aytun, 2014;Vergil & Bahtiyar, 2017;Karagül & Dündar, 2006). A considerable number of studies focus on certain regions or cities of Turkey (Ardahan, 2012;Tatlı, 2013a and2013b;Çalışkan et.al., 2014;Keleş, 2014;Keleş et.al., 2015;Erbaşı, 2015;Özpınar et.al., 2016;Türkseven & Kutlar, 2019;Şentuna & Çakı, 2020); and some studies focus on certain population groups (Ardahan & Ezici, 2014;Uçar, 2016;Özdemir, 2008;Kartal et.al., 2017;Baş, 2018;Polatcan, 2018;Seki, 2019;Kuştepeli et.al., 2019;Paksoy & Gül, 2019) (See Annex 2). Several studies measure social capital via a composite index (Uçar, 2016;Ardahan, 2012;Tatlı, 2013a and2013b;Ardahan & Ezici, 2014;Çalışkan et.al., 2014;Erbaşı, 2015;Kızılkaya, 2017;Öztopçu, 2018;Polatcan, 2018;Paksoy & Gül, 2019;Şentuna & Çakı, 2020).…”