Assessment of the Relationship between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Quality Of Life in the Villages Merged in Cities (Case Study: Kheirabad and Eayshabad in Yazd City)

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1 Assistant professor of geography and urban planning, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran

2 MA in geography and urban planning, University of Yazd, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

Introduction
Quality of life as the concept to show the satisfactory of life is a criterion for determining satisfaction and dissatisfaction from various aspects in groups and individuals. Nevertheless, to evaluate the quality of life in villages merged in the city of Yazd, and the relationship between objective and subjective indicators of the quality of life in villages merged in Yazd, the present study attempts to answer this question that how is quality of life in sample community? And whether is there any relation between objective and subjective indicators of quality of life in two studied neighborhoods?
 
Methodology
This research has a descriptive – analytic methodology and it used SPSS software in order to analyze the data collected from questionnaire and field survey form two methods of descriptive and inferential statistics (T Test, Mann Whitney U test and chi-square test). The population in this study is two merged villages in Yazd (Kheirabad and Eayshabad) with a population of 11054 people that 370 people are considered as sample
 
Results and discussion
To assess the quality of life in two neighborhoods of Kheirabad and Eayshabad in mental aspects, one sample T-test was first used to measure quality of life in terms of social, economic, environmental and physical aspects in the two areas. First, in each of these dimensions, variables are combined and mid-range response that is Likerts spectrum is calculated and then the median responses are compared with middle. Chi-square test is used to examine the relationship between objective and subjective indicators.
 
 
Conclusion
Based on sample community, satisfaction in all aspects of quality of life (social, economic, environmental and physical) is lower than average level. Only in some cases such as public places safety, leisure time, appropriate facilities at home, and infrastructures status, the residents satisfaction is higher than average. Based on the results of Chi square test dont have relation between objective and subjective indicators of quality of life in the merged villages of Yazd.

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  • Receive Date: 15 May 2013
  • Revise Date: 22 October 2013
  • Accept Date: 27 October 2013

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