Measuring and Developing Quality of Life Indexes in nomads Settlement Centers, Case Study: nomads Settlement Centers of Fars and Isfahan Provinces

Today, developing positional planning, the extent of satisfaction from life quality in planned spaces is considered as primary goals in such a way that improving life quality may provide bases for social, economical and spatial development. The present paper aims at investigating quality of life indexes in tribal settlement centers. Research type is applied-developmental and research method is documental, analytical and survey. To complete available data, questionnaires were used. Concerning the population of studied centers, sample size was estimated 384 by Cochran Formula. To test hypotheses, T.student and Tukey Test using SPSS were employed. Findings indicate that according to model perspectives, education quality, settlement quality, physical environment quality as well as income and employment quality are evaluated lower than normal level. Furthermore, security and health quality and spatial quality are evaluated as normal. Generally speaking, from the viewpoint of quality of life dimensions, those understudy centers are categorized in three levels: 1) highest satisfaction: Dasht-e-Bokan, Golafshan and Cheshmeh Rahman, nomad’s settlement centers; 2) average satisfaction: Tal-e-Maadan Center; and 3) lowest satisfaction: and Dasht-e-Lar Center.