Ranking Social Welfare Level of Zanjan Province by TOPSIS Technique

Welfare and social politics is one of the significant topics of development programs which can reduce issues like poverty and social inequality in the shadow of social justice in society. In order to achieve the fair social welfare, regional planning, that its main purpose is creating balance within and between regions, is useful. In this context, gaining knowledge from the studied area, to provide balancing is necessary. This article attempts to study the situation of Zanjan province in social welfare categories and ultimately reach to a ranking among cities for future social welfare plan. In order to achieve the goal, 30 indicators in the field of social welfare after the selection process due to basic data of each were collected. In the next step TOPSIS technique was used for data analysis. Since in this technique specific weight of each indicator is necessary, the ordinal technique, based on indicators weighting by 15 people of specialist experts of social welfare, was used. Result of data analysis represents inequality of social welfare issues among towns of Zanjan province. Likewise Zanjan with 0/50 score has the highest level of social welfare services and Khodabandeh with 0/18 score has the lowest.