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Türkiye’s economy,
seen from the embers.

A kebab price shows what a wage buys at the table. Kebonomi follows that relationship across years, cities and portions.

Explore the indices SOURCE LEDGER
NET_WAGE◆PORTION_PRICE◆WORK_MINUTES◆MEAT_GRAMS◆CITY◆SOURCE◆CONFIDENCE◆
FIRST CALCULATED INDEX · 200579.1kebabs / wage
SERIES PEAK · 2022107.3kebabs / wage
CHANGE · 2023–2026-23.2%pilot purchasing power
876 DATED EVIDENCE RECORDS · 47 YEARS

300 ARCHIVE CONTEXT OBSERVATIONS + 9 DIRECT HISTORICAL PRICE DOCUMENTS + 512 ANNUAL SOURCE RECORDS (509 UNIQUE SOURCE DOCUMENTS). 312 PRICE POINTS USED IN CALCULATION. 352 structured modern-panel observations; 95 records with verified weight, 255 records held out of the core median with a stated reason. Early monthly values provide price context; they are not direct kebab documents. The publication threshold of ten independent kebab documents per year for 1980–2004 has not yet been met.

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THE KEBONOMİ INDEX FAMILY

Not a single number.
A system of connected indicators.

Kebonomi is an independent measurement framework that brings kebab prices, net wages, working time, portion weight and geography into one data contract.

  1. 01Kebab Purchasing Power IndexLIVE INDEX

    Measures the purchasing power of the net minimum wage against one standard Adana portion.

    FORMULAweighted_net_minimum_wage / standard_portion_price
    DATA CONTRACT · 7 fields
    price.amountprice.currencyobservedAt+4
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  2. 02Kebab Work-Time IndexLIVE · DERIVED

    Expresses the cost of one standard portion in net working time.

    FORMULAportion_price / hourly_net_wage * 60
    DATA CONTRACT · 7 fields
    price.amountprice.currencyobservedAt+4
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  3. 03Kebab Inflation IndexLIVE · DERIVED

    Tracks how far kebab prices diverge from official CPI on a common base year.

    FORMULAkebab_price_index - official_cpi_index
    DATA CONTRACT · 7 fields
    observedAtprice.amountprice.currency+4
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  4. 04Kebab Shrinkflation IndexLIVE · DERIVED

    Makes portion shrinkage behind the headline price visible through cost per 100 grams of meat.

    FORMULAprice.amount / meatGrams * 100
    DATA CONTRACT · 8 fields
    price.amountprice.currencymeatGrams+5
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  5. 05City Kebab IndexRESEARCH TRACK

    Compares the standard product’s price, wage equivalent and working time across cities.

    FORMULAcity_net_wage / city_standard_portion_median
    DATA CONTRACT · 10 fields
    citycountryCodeprice.amount+7
    Data collection in progress
  6. 06Global Kebab IndexRESEARCH TRACK

    Under the Kebonomics name, it will compare a standardized product, local wages and working time across countries.

    FORMULAstandardized_portion_price / local_hourly_net_wage * 60
    DATA CONTRACT · 12 fields
    citycountryCodeprice.amount+9
    Data collection in progress
HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE BIG MAC INDEX

Beyond a standard product, we examine the wider everyday economy.

The Big Mac Index compares currencies through one standardized product. Kebonomi derives separate indicators for wages, food inflation, working time, portion shrinkage and urban purchasing power from the same observation framework.

THE STANDARDIZATION PROBLEM

When the product varies, the method must be more explicit.

A 120-gram Adana in Istanbul is not the same product as a 180-gram portion in Adana. Every observation is stored at product, weight, service and source level; missing fields are never inferred.

BRAND ARCHITECTURE · TÜRKİYE → WORLD

Kebonomi Kebonomics

Kebonomi for Türkiye; Kebonomics for global comparison. This Türkiye-only product is Kebonomi. Once a common standard and cross-country data network are ready, the separate global comparison layer will launch under the Kebonomics name.

OBSERVATION SCHEMA · V1.0Open the index registry ↗
restaurantcitydatekebab_typemeat_gramsportion_typepricesourceconfidence

Missing value = null · No silent assumptions

03

RESEARCH DESK

One narrative.
Five layers of verification.

The home page summarises the finding; the index, open data, source ledger, methodology and historical research pages show how the calculation is built.

  1. 01
    KEBAB PURCHASING POWER INDEX

    What wages buy, across time.

    Research coverage reaches back to 1980. In the calculated 2005–2026 headline index, compare how many standard portions net wages can buy and the time cost of the same portion.

    Open page
  2. 02
    OPEN DATA

    Every result, published with its evidence.

    Price range, source-document count, price points used in the median, confidence and method period are published for every calculated year. The series is not yet a balanced national restaurant sample.

    Open page
  3. 03
    SOURCE LEDGER

    Every number has a traceable history.

    Inspect the city, source type, service scope and date chain for every calculated index value from 2005 to 2026. The 1980–2004 context series remain separate on the historical research page.

    Open page
  4. 04
    METHODOLOGY

    Not a claim, a reproducible method.

    Every result is published with its product definition, wage weighting, price median and working-time formula. Sampling limits for a national median are stated separately.

    Open page
  5. 05
    HISTORICAL SOURCE RESEARCH

    Tracing the evidence back to 1980. No document, no data.

    A twelve-month context series is ready for every year from 1980 to 2004. These are not independent kebab-price sources. Direct portion and tariff documents are counted separately; no year enters the headline index before ten verified documents are found.

    Open page
KBO—TR
OPEN RESEARCH · TRACEABLE METHOD · 25 AUGUST 2026

Every new document
rebuilds the measure.

The next objective is to match portion-weighted city observations with the official CPI series. As the evidence base grows, every connected index will be recalculated under the same method.