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ramezanpor nargesi G, fallah haghighi N, abdollahzade G, sharifi Z. (2022). Assessing the Provinces' Level of Development in Terms of Education, Health and Migration Indicators. refahj. 21(83), : 1
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Assessing the Provinces' Level of Development in Terms of Education, Health and Migration Indicators
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Introduction: The development process includes various dimensions. The social dimension includes indicators such as educational, health and migration indicators, which have received less attention. Therefore, this study aimed at assessing the provinces' level of development in terms of educational, health and migration indicators in which 31 provinces were ranked based on 24 indicators.
Method: The data were collected through the results of general population and housing census and statistical yearbooks in 2018. SPSS, Excel and Arc GIS software were used to analyze the data. Williamson coefficient was applied to evaluate spatial inequality; principal component analysis to weight indicators and TOPSIS to construct a composite indicator of provincial development were applied. Finally, the development level of the provinces was classified by GIS and hierarchical cluster analysis.
Findings: The results showed that there was the highest inequality in the indicators of the "dropout rate in elementary school" and "ratio of rehabilitation centers to population", and the lowest inequality in "junior high school passing rate" and "male literacy rate", respectively. The results of ranking the provinces revealed that the provinces of Charmahal and Bakhtiari, South Khorasan and Semnan were in the best situation whereas Sistan and Baluchestan, Alborz, and Tehran had the lowest rank. This finding, together with the results of hierarchical cluster analysis and GIS maps, confirms the existence of a gap and difference among the provinces in social development in terms of education, health and migration.
Discussion: Based on the findings of the current study, it is suggested to allocate more budget to the less-developed identified provinces.
Method: The data were collected through the results of general population and housing census and statistical yearbooks in 2018. SPSS, Excel and Arc GIS software were used to analyze the data. Williamson coefficient was applied to evaluate spatial inequality; principal component analysis to weight indicators and TOPSIS to construct a composite indicator of provincial development were applied. Finally, the development level of the provinces was classified by GIS and hierarchical cluster analysis.
Findings: The results showed that there was the highest inequality in the indicators of the "dropout rate in elementary school" and "ratio of rehabilitation centers to population", and the lowest inequality in "junior high school passing rate" and "male literacy rate", respectively. The results of ranking the provinces revealed that the provinces of Charmahal and Bakhtiari, South Khorasan and Semnan were in the best situation whereas Sistan and Baluchestan, Alborz, and Tehran had the lowest rank. This finding, together with the results of hierarchical cluster analysis and GIS maps, confirms the existence of a gap and difference among the provinces in social development in terms of education, health and migration.
Discussion: Based on the findings of the current study, it is suggested to allocate more budget to the less-developed identified provinces.
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Received: 2021/09/13 | Accepted: 2022/01/11 | Published: 2022/03/16
Received: 2021/09/13 | Accepted: 2022/01/11 | Published: 2022/03/16
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