Study of Socio-Economic Impact of Targeted Subsidies Law on Rural Household's quality of Life in Urmia Township

Living in rural areas tend to have less access to socio-economic services, so improving the quality of Life of rural communities is the ultimate goal of rural development projects or programs. The targeted subsidies law has been implemented in Iran by emphasis on establishing of Justice and social welfare, and also improving the quality of life for poor society layers. This descriptive analytical survey was aimed to study of socio-economic impact of targeted subsidies law on rural households’ of Urmia Township. The statistical population of the studied areas consisted of all the rural households in Urmia Township (N=71353). According to the Cochran formula, a sample size of 265 was selected using a multistage sampling technique (n=265). A questionnaire was used to collect the data required. The validity of the questionnaire used was confirmed by a panel of experts. A pilot study was conducted to establish the reliability of the instrument used. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the main scales of the questionnaire was 0.7 to 0.93. The results revealed that the targeted subsidies law implementation has a significant positive effect on social (sig = 0.000 and β=0.582) and economical (sig = 0.000 and β=0.531) dimensions of the quality of life on rural households’ of Urmia Township, but its’ social effects has been more than economic effects. However, all the changes cannot be associated to targeted subsidies law implementation uncertainly, because, the quality of life conditions and factors are very diverse and numerous