Assess the Factors of Development Level in Rural Areas of Fars Province By Using Factor Analysis and Unbalanced Coefficient Morris

During recent decades, development as one of the most important global challenges has been attracted the attention of politicians and socioeconomic planners. Therefore, in order to achieve sustainable development in the country, including urban and rural settlement areas, studying the past events is necessary to analyze the situation and draw the appropriate spatial. In other words, knowing the capabilities of the environment and the available services in each region are necessary to determine the development level of of these areas, especially rural regions, as the first step in the planning process and development of the region's population. This study is aimed to investigate and identify the most important factors in the development of rural regions and explore the differences, similarities, and classify them in terms of development. Statistical community of this analytical-descriptive research is rural settlements of Fars province. The documentary data is collected by using the factor analysis of the 29 county of Fars province in three dimensions: economic, social and ecological status. The development level of of rural regions, by using Morris, is classified into four groups such as unbalanced, developed, less developed and deprived groups.The results show that there is strong differences among rural areas in the Fars province that means Marvdasht (50.22 percent), Darab (49.04percent), Estahban (46.35 percent) and Kazeroon (45.59 percent) are as the developed regins that placed at the highest level and Kawar, Mohr, Sarvestan, Khonj and Gerash (18.46 percent) are as deprived regions that located at the lowest level.