Evaluation of quality of life in rural areas, case: Sadeghieh rural district of Najafabad

Assessing and evaluating the quality of life can be very decisive and important for achieving the goals of sustainable rural development and can be a major help in advancing programs related to rural development. This research in terms of purpose; It is applied in terms of analytical-descriptive method. The required data was collected through documentary and field survey methods. The statistical population of the study according to the latest census of the whole country in 2016 is equal to 11662 people and 3550 families living in rural areas of Sadeghieh district, of which 370 people were selected as a sample using Cochran's formula. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose face and content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts. To evaluate the reliability of a pilot study in one of the villages outside the area and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha formula for different dimensions between 0.922 to 0.710. The questionnaire was designed in the form of a five-part Likert scale (very low = 1, low = 2, medium = 3, high = 4, very high = 5). Distribution of questionnaires among the studied villages The population share of the villages was used in such a way that the questionnaire was distributed randomly among the residents in proportion to the number of heads of households living in each village. One-sample t-test was used to analyze the data. The research findings show that in general, the indicators of "social and personal security, quality of health and environmental quality" are in a better position than other indicators, and the indicators of quality of income and employment and quality of infrastructure are in poor condition. Are located