Level of rural settlements Zarrindasht county in terms of affecting the quality of life

In recent decades, quality of life as one of the topics of interest to many sciences, has been considered by researchers, planners and governments.

The aim of the present study is to assess the quality of life in rural areas of Zarrin Dasht county.

The present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method of work. The statistical population of the study consists of all heads of rural households in Zarrin Dasht (7927 people), of which a sample size of 310 questionnaires was completed using Cochran's formula by simple random sampling. Also, 30 questionnaires have been completed by experts to weigh the indicators. Fuzzy hierarchical analysis has been used to weight the indicators and fuzzy TOPSIS and fuzzy Vicor models have been used to rank rural settlements.

Geographical area of research: 

Zarrin Dasht city is one of the cities of Fars province, which according to the 2016 census had a population of 72951 people. The distance between this city and the center of the province is 255 km. Geographically, it is located in the southeast of Fars between the cities of Darab-Lar-Jahrom-Fasa.

The results of the research based on the fuzzy TOPSIS model show that Ziraab village with a value of 0.855 is in the first rank and Chah Anjir village with a value of 0.221 is in the last rank. Also, according to the results of fuzzy Vicor, Ziraab village with the value of 0.000 has the first rank and Chah Anjir village with the value of 1.000 has the last rank in terms of quality of life.

The results of the study indicate the fact that the villages of Zarrin Dasht city are not at the same level in terms of quality of life indicators.