Assessing Welfare in Shiraz Metropolis by using Indicator of Clarke and Atkinson Welfare Function

The purpose of all Kinds of planning in cities is to achieve urban Welfare and for measuring welfare in there, composite indicators are used. To do so this paper is about the study which was done for assessment of welfare in Shiraz metropolitan by using Clarke index and social welfare function. As a quantitative-analytical research, it used variables of hierarchical needs for Clark Index and income for social welfare function. Income data was based on official data of the Statistical Center of Iran. Moreover to apply this function in nine Zone of Shiraz metropolitan also field data was collected from 384 households. The Statistical population is households of Shiraz which due to the General Population and Housing Census in 2006 was about of 344,533 people. Assessment of welfare indicates an increasing trend so that the index has reached from 0.253 in 2001 to 0.424 in 2006. The Clarke index which was calculated for 2002 -2005 shows escalating trend (0.281 - 0.388) in this period. According to the findings also by considering levels of sensitivity to inequality reveal that the most unequal years were 2006 and 2005 and the lowest ones were 2002 and 2003 respectively.