The Comparative Study on Application of Assessment Methods of the Development in the Regional Studies The Case: Esfarayen County

The beginning of the movement of applying quantitative models in social science during 1960 concuring with the controversy on development & underdeveloped resulted in usage of such models in measuring the level of developedness of regions. By analyzing a number development measuring models (Moriss, numerical Taxonomy, Principal Components Analysis, potential) the present article aimes to answer this question that whether all models of measuring the level of developedness will resulted in similar conclusions? Towards this objective, 43 variables under five development indicators are chosen and by applying each of the measuring model to this data, the level of development of the districts Esfarayen county determind. The comparison of the results provided by these methods shows that because of the essence and different method of measuring the indicators as well as the particularities of each region, the level of development of the villages studied differ from on method to the other. Therefore, it has to be careful using quantitative models and applying their results in planning.