The effect of suburb-dwelling on the smuggling of goods and foreign exchange

Smugglers are lively barometers of societies that are in a stressful state. Their status results from some of today's social phenomena of which accelerated urbanization and suburb-dwelling conisdered as the most important ones. In this study we examine the relationship between suburbdwelling and smuggling of commodities and foreign exchanges. The research method is documentary and survey using self-made questionnaire. The statistical population of this study consists of officials of governmental organizations in Kurdistan province and Sistan and Baluchestan province in 2010. Based on the Cochran sampling formula, 330 persons were selected as sample size, of which 165 persons for each province. The questionnaires were distributed randomly among them. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics in SPSS. The results show that there is a direct and significant relationship between suburb-dwelling and smuggling.