The Role of Housing Social Indicators in the Country Provinces, by Using Compound Human Development Index Method

Housing indicators maybe the most important and the most fundamental factor in housing planning. Considering the housing social indicators in one of the approaches to understand housing characteristics, with which can be discover the effective parameters in the housing issue and facilitate any decision making in housing planning. This paper identifies with a view to the role of the social variables in the planning of housing development, certain quality variables (facilities, construction material and fuel) which have been relevant to explain housing development planning in the Iranian provinces. The methodology in this paper is descriptive and analytical. The statistical sample is the country province's existing housing through which the statistical data has been studied and analysed by using HDI. This paper aim to determine the level of the country provinces from the perspective of social indexes of housing. How good the Iranian provinces are developed in housing? These variables suggest categorization of the Iranian provinces into four classes of highly deprived, deprived, developing and developed. The result shows the poor quality of the housing in those provinces and in turn requires adequate attention to be spent by public planners in provision of necessary and subordinate housing services, facilitating public access to such services and social justice.