نشریه جمعیت
پیاپی 99-100 (بهار و تابستان 1396)

After air, water is the most important element for living organisms; but now Iran has been faced with “water crisis” based on some criteria and has been faced with “water stress” based on others. On the other hand, Iran is faced with increasing the aging population. This raised the attention of policymakers and led to the adoption of population growth policies. After this, the media are working hard to link the water problem exclusively to the issue of population and its policy of increasing it. They also think that the country's water and environmental resources are inadequate even for the current population.
This article tries to answer, the scientific relation between water crisis/stress and population. So with studying of consumption situation and water transfer techniques, the relation between population growth and water consumption growth in country and comparison of water consumption and resources in Iran and other countries, to respond doubt, in this regard.
Therefore, according to this study, although Iran’s critical condition water supply is accepted, but this point is noticeable that crisis of water resources, is not water scarcity, rather is water governing. So that with using of true managing methods and using of modern watershed methods in different sectors, for example drinking, industry, irrigation and agriculture and etc., Iran’s demographic capacity is more than current population, according to natural resources of country.

Iran’s childbearing policies have faced a lot of changes in recent decades. Aiming to interpret and represent the changes in new childbearing policies of Iran in the cyberspace. This paper performs a content analysis on Internet users’ approach. The sample consists of 799 Internet users of Iranian news websites. In addition, 41,684 users, who had expressed their position as “agree” or “disagree” with the comments of these 799 users, were another part of the study population. The research methodology is based on quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Among the related published news, 10 news with the largest audience were selected for content analysis. The results of quantitative content analysis showed that users have taken different approaches in the face of childbearing policies: 89.7% were critical, 0.6% were passive and 9.7% were supportive. The results of qualitative content analysis also indicated that in addition to challenging the dominant policy approach, the users had a critical approach towards interpreting and decoding of new childbearing policies in Iran. These users resist the institutionalization of discourses of population growth.

The spatial analysis of Criminal Offenses illustrates this important point that in some parts of the city, due to the existence of the physical, social, economic and cultural fabrication, the amount of delinquency is high,and in return, some urban spaces are a barrier to criminal prosecution.
The aim of this study was to analyze the spatial organization of social anomalies in Khorramabad city and identify the spatial patterns and facilitators of committing crimes. This research has been carried out to counteract and control the areas infected by these crimes through the use of basic graphics and interpolation techniques and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). In order to identify the spatial patterns of crimes distribution in the city, mean center test, oval standard deviation, clustering test, nearest neighbor indices, and estimation of kernel density have been used. The statistical population of this study was all prisoners (women and men) who were in the central prisons of Khorramabad city in 2015 (in the summer). Given the number of statistical population, 322 people were selected as the sample of offenders.
Based on the findings of the research and analysis of the results, the distribution of crimes and violations is not the same in Khorramabad areas. Based on the results of tests for estimating the kernel density, the average and standard deviation ellipses and nearest neighbor index, the distribution of crimes follow the cluster pattern. This means that the specific ranges of Khorramabad are the focal point of delinquency and follows a centralized pattern and, in contrast to many parts of the city, are considered to be pure areas for committing these crimes.

Pension funds and life insurance companies are very concerned with their liabilities in respect of premiums collected for life policies and pensions. This concern is mainly due to their dependence on correct calculations of premiums and their corresponding dependence on life tables used. A recent government directive issued by the Central Insurance of Iran, provides the necessary table and provides the required assurance for life insurance policies and pension funds. However, as we discussed in this paper, life tables that are estimated using national and local statistics, provide more accurate estimates for parameters needed in the life table. Here in this paper, we estimate life expectancy using Iranian Oil Industry Pension Fund statistics and find, there is a gap between nationally used estimates and those found here. The significance of these estimates are seen when variations in excess of five years are noted and the consequent appreciation of pensions in retirement. Thus we place a greater emphasis on estimates, found in this paper and hope to encourage greater use of accurate data and reliable life tables.

According to the many different and sometimes contradictory findings in the field of work culture, in this article, we attempt to answer basic questions, what is the status of work culture in our society and what factors related to work culture. In addition, we review pathology of studies and introduce research gaps in this field. We investigate, work culture with meta-analysis technique. We reviewed 117 internal researches and selected 42 documents. The result indicates: the average work culture, is the medium level and a range of internal, outsourcing factors and ground variables affect it. In these studies, internal organizational variables, were the effect of: job satisfaction and security, organizational justice, participatory management, organizational participation, specialization and non-contradiction in role, work experience, proper system of work, favorable job promotion system and outsourcing variables, directly related to age, inverse relationship of education. Based on the findings of the research, the pathology of studies and study gaps in this area are presented and suggestions and solutions are presented.

The report "Population Trends and Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran" was first published by the National Population Studies & Comprehensive Management Institute in 1395 and reviewed in several stages, and was re-released in 1396. The report includes eight chapters, which seeks to analyze the demographic trends of the country in different dimensions in order to increase the quality of policy. This review briefly shows that the report has many scientific and content flaws. For this reason, it is not reliable and should be cautious to use in planning and policy making.