An analysis of the status of the informal Business sector in the urban economy sustainability

The Present research is an attempt to realize the status of informal economic section in the sustainability of Tabriz megalopolis. The Tabriz megalopolis is a sample of urban development models which is wholly changed due to variation of urban planning in recent decades and involves porous and ill appearance. This investigation attempts to evaluate the economic roots of the problem based on urban sustainability views to provide a proper context for better realizing and judging them when they are applied in urban planning and development fields. This research which is of application – development kind, involves descriptive, analytic and case study methods and documentary -library and field techniques and is used in providing that. Data gathering tools, questionnaires, observation, interview, statistic documents of Iran statistics center, information acquired from analytic maps provided in GIS circumstance, documents existing in local city halls and Tabriz urban development all are employed in this research. The method of research is of descriptive- analytic model, so the quantitative models and techniques like test and V crammer and geographical information system GIS, ArcView and SPSS software have been used. For justifiable and stable inspection of this research, we have used formal – justifiable and contextual and questionnaire retest method, and its final factor amounted to 82 percent. The data of this research have been analyzed by the use of descriptive and inferential statistics methods and SPSS software.
The data of this research shows a great variety in the activities of informal section. Geographic distribution of these activities in the various areas of Tabriz city is not uniform. The most significant reason which causes the people to take part in this section is the fact that, they could not be employed in the formal economic section, and has not enough capital, proficiency and education (qualification). The most important occupational problems of this group are the inadequacy of capital and lack of fixed and appropriate place of activity. Most of the people occupied in informal economic section, do not pay tax. The rate of occupation in informal section among emigrant people is more than the other groups of people. There is a relationship among informal habitation and informal activity in informal section and urban sustainability. 1. Most of the businessmen in informal economic section of Tabriz megalopolis are men (72.3 percent) and married people (82.3 percent).
2. The activities of informal economic section in Tabriz megalopolis are very widespread and various, and most of them are clothes sellers (11.5 percent), fruit sellers (10.8 percent), building workers (8.5 percent) carpet knitters (5.4 percent).
3. The most important kinds of occupations in informal section of this city are:Salesmanship, domestic service giving people (in or out of house), scientific, educational, artistic services, transportation and agriculture.
4. The businessmen in informal section of Tabriz mostly have high slod (25.1 percent) and elementary school (25.1 percent) and unqualified people (19.7 percent).
5. Average age of these people is 42 and their average family personel is 4, which are in average limit.
6. Geographical distribution of informal economic section in Tabriz megalopolis is not uniform. The one and four areas of Tabriz city hall is the focous center of businessmen of informal economic section of Tabriz megalopolis.
7. Most of the people working in this section are rural – urban emigrants and their inhabitants are mostly in margines of Tabriz city.
8. The most important reason for the people to enter to this informal section is the fact that entering in formal economic section is impossible for them, and also the lack of enough capital and speciality and qualication.
9. The location of these businessmen are mostly Abrasan (5.9 percent) Seilab (4.6 percent), Maralan (4.6 percent) and Abbasi (4.4 percent) areas.
10. The most important occupational problems of this group is the inadequacy of capital, lack of speciality and qualification, and lack of fixed location for performing economic activities.
11. Most of the working people in this section (31.4 percent) have revenues between 400 to 600 thousands Tomans, which shows these people are below poverty line and are affected by intensive poverty.
12. The occupational variety in informal economic section in Tabriz megalopolis is more intensive for men than Women.
Importance and specific location of that (informal economic section) in urban economy is so intensive that could never be ignored.
The informal economic section have attracted numerous people of Tabriz magalopolis and plays an important role in the economy of that. Conventional approaches to urban development generally are of one-way model and are dependent on political conditions and economic purposes. Nevertheless, since the late decade of twentieth century this subject has taken systematic and multifacial condition to itself.
The Tabriz megalopolis is a sample of urban development models which is wholly changed due to variation of urban planning in recent decades and involves porous and ill appearance. This investigation attempts to evaluate the economic roots of this problem based on urban sustainability vews to provide a proper context for better realizing and judging them when they are applied in urban planning and development fields. This research which is of application – development kind, involves descriptive, navigative and case study methods and documentary -library and field techniqes and is used in providing that
Data gathering tools, questionaires, observation, interview, statistic documents of Iran statistics center, information acquired from analytic maps provided in GIS circumstance, documents existing in local city halls and Tabriz urband development all are employed in this research. The method of research is of descriptive- analytic model, so the quantitative models and techniques like test and V cramer and geographical information system GIS, Arcwiev and SPSS softwares have been used. The statistic sample people of this research involves the people working in informal economic section of Tabriz megalopolis and the volume of 390 samples (including 282 men and 108 women), and the sampling method is accidential. The present investigation data are analysed by the use of descriptive, inferential statistic methods and also by the use of SPSS software