Social Welfare Studies in Iran Concentrating on Scientific-Research Papers (2001-2014)

This paper is a meta-analysis on the studies in field of social welfare in Iran. main question of this paper is: What are characteristics of Iranian papers and which issues are covered welfare studies in Iran are referring to what issues. The main objective of performing this meta-analysis is to investigate the researching background of welfare in order to know the common points and differences of studies in the field of welfare in Iran and to achieve general and applied results, and new approaches to welfare and welfare studies. The statistical community of this research is 54 welfare studies (scientific-research papers) in the recent 14 years (2001-2014). The most important variables studied in this research are including: the study field of papers, theoretical approaches of them, type of researches, methodology of researches, the components of social welfare which has been considered in papers, data gathering techniques, sampling methods, data analysis techniques, analysis unit, statistical community or objective groups and findings of papers. Some of the most important findings of this study are including: The descriptive-analytical (quantitative-qualitative) character of most researches, concentration on individuals as analysis unit, preferring the econometric methods to other methods, issue based and timebased weakness, unspecified state of statistical community or objective groups coupled with weakness in sampling in a large number of studies, limited theoretical aspect and economic approach of many studies in the field of social welfare in Iran. Whereas , this paper focuses on conducted papers in special period, the result do not necessarily notify the whole research condition in this field.