Measurement of social justice in Iran: applying Social Justice Index (SJI)

The composite index as tools of governance have an effective role in identifying the status quo and designing regulatory interventions to achieve the required status. The social justice index, which assesses the status of social justice in the EU member, that in recent years it is also used in other countries. Due to the lack of familiarity with this index inside and the lack of statistical data on some of the measurements of this combined index, so far no estimation of the status of Iran from the perspective of this indicator has been made. The present research has tried to estimate status of social justice in Iran by using SJI. The results of this measurement and estimation show that the total score of the combined social justice index increased from 8 in 2006 to 8.4 in 1395. This increase has been caused by the performance of the government in reducing poverty and supporting low income levels; however, the trend in the labor market, health, education and intergenerational justice is alarming