To study the indicators of quality of life in rural areas: a case study of rural district of Ardestan, Isfahan province

Life quality is a complicated، multi-dimensional، and qualitative item regarding conditions and position of a population in a particular geographical scale، such as city، district، etc. This item depends both on subjective or qualitative and objective or quantitative indicators. Life quality is not a new concept، the concept has existed in Greek philosophy and Aristotle has mentioned the topic of happiness. Life quality of rural people is dependent to many factors like employment، income، access to services such as education، health، environment، security and a strong association. Although life quality of urban people is dependent are also the­se factors but challenges of measuring prosperity and a better life in rural areas is very different. Therefore، given the importance of life quality in development and well-being of human communities، measurement of life quality and explain the factors affecting their is very important.