Evaluating Development Levels of Nomadic Community of Iran's Provinces in Different Dimensions, Social- Welfare, Infrastructure and Technology

The present study aims to evaluate development level of physical-spatial dimension of summer and winter nomadic communities in different regions of the country. The method of Research and description of relationship between variables was descriptive-analytic. The statistical population included 2373660 people in the form of 426,320 families of all of the nomadic communities of the country. The required data were obtained through documents and statistics center and the last census period of country's nomadic communities in 2008. To analyze the data TOPSIS model was used to rank developed, semi-developed and underdeveloped provinces and the SPSS regression model was used to measure the importance and influence of research's effective indices in development level. The findings of the study showed the coefficient of developing inequality was 0.467 in winter and 0.567 in summer. The developing uniformity coefficient was 2.01 in underdeveloped summer provinces and it was 4.4 for undeveloped winter provinces. Regression model showed that the indicators used in explaining development level of nomadic community were 99.3% and 98.2% in summer and winter periods respectively. Among the indicators of development, access to energy with coefficient 0.693 and in winter period access to communication and information facilities with coefficient 3.26 had the highest influence in development level.