Investigation of Factors Affecting Rural Households Life Quality in the Climates of East Azerbaijan Province

Due to the importance of measuring the quality of life and the necessity of correct and efficient planning to implement necessity projects to improve and enhance the welfare of villagers, especially their deprived class, there is a basic need for extensive and in-depth studies in rural areas. Therefore, the present study was done, to investigate the factors affecting rural households’ life quality in the climates of East Azerbaijan province. For this purpose, a questionnaire after validity test, in the form of face validity, and reliability test by Scout study method (with Cronbach's alpha coefficient from 0.80 to 0.96) from 384 heads of households by stratified random sampling method with proportional assignment, were completed. In this study, climate classification method of Amberje with climatic indices of rainfall, average maximum and minimum temperature in the warmest and coldest months of the year under the headings climates super-arid of cold, semi-arid super-cold to semi-arid temperate, Mediterranean of super-cold and cold, and semi-humid of ultra-cold was used. According to the results, the average quality of life of villagers was low compared to the average standard score, and had statistically significant difference from it. Of course, due to the suitability of the Mediterranean climate of super-cold and cold of this province for the production of agricultural products, we find increases in the yield and income of agricultural products. Therefore, villagers of this climate statistically with significant difference had more quality of life than the other regions of the province. In addition, this study was able to investigate 50 percent of the important factors that affected the quality of life of villagers in this province. As the results of regression showed that 50 percent from variations of the life quality variable of villagers with 5 factors: "agricultural revenues", "distance of village from suitable asphalt road", "number of educated people in the family", "education level of the head of family", and "level of progress in the use of industrial technologies and methods in agricultural productions", were explainedwhen learning indirect effects on them. Informing about the necessary economic forecasts such as fluctuations in the price of cultivated agricultural products, implementation of construction road projects in the villages of this province, implementation of effective literacy projects and increasing educational facilities in all educational levels in the villages, revival of enterprises and cooperatives of the development of agricultural mechanization and the payment of long-term, low-interest and supervised loans to villagers, especially in unsuitable climates for agricultural productions were the recommendations of this study.