Geography And Rural Planning
Mohammad Bosshaq; Davood Jamini; Ahmad Taghdisi
Volume 3, Issue 5 , April 2012, , Pages 105-118
Abstract
One of the most important economic and social issues is employment problem in rural areas today and nowadays the employment is not only a place of high prestige, but it's a necessity tosurvive that importance and basic role plays in the immigrations of rural -urban and balances of regional. The purpose ...
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One of the most important economic and social issues is employment problem in rural areas today and nowadays the employment is not only a place of high prestige, but it's a necessity tosurvive that importance and basic role plays in the immigrations of rural -urban and balances of regional. The purpose of present study is to investigate and to categorize the rural areas of provinces in country according to their enjoyment of employment’s indices. The research method used in the study is “descriptive, documentary, quantitative – analytical”. The documentation of Statistical Center of Iran, especially the results of census’ labor force has been used to collect data for this study. Topsis Model and cluster analysis have been used in order to analyze the data in the present study. Finally, by using Geographical Information System (GIS) software categorization of rural areas of provinces in country has been done to represent the spatial analysis of employment status and the place of each province has been determined according to their enjoyment of employment’s indices. The results show that there is a gap and inequality among rural areas of country regarding employment’s indexes so that Sistan-o-Baloochestan and Hormozgan provinces are at a poor level and Eastern Azarbaijan, Zanjan, Western Azarbaijan, and Ardebil are at a strong level of enjoyment of employment’s indices.