Determining the level of development of rural in the western coastal area of Guilan province using the Rural Development Index (RDI)

Today, development as a process is the most important issue of countries, especially developing countries, the most important goal of sustainable development is to meet the needs and improve the quality of human life. The present study aims to examine the level of development of health and education indicators in the rural of the west coast of Guilan. For this purpose, information related to 4 health indicators and 6 educational indicators of the three census periods of 2006, 2011 and 2017 were received from the Guilan Provincial website. Then, using the Rural Development Index, Combined Result Index and paired t-statistics, the development of health and education indicators in 8 parts of the coastal area over time were determined. The results showed that the amount of RDI calculated based on the frequency of indicators and also the frequency ratio to the number of rural in each section, has a spatial difference. However, the ranking of the CRI index, despite minor changes in its value, does not show changes in the level of development over three periods. This is also true in the CRI index obtained from the ratio of frequency to the number of rural. The results showed that the development rank in this area is D and C, which indicates the low level of development of the west coastal area of Guilan province in terms of health and education indicators.