Assessing the status of child-friendly city indicators and its relationship with children's access to the required essential uses (case study: Jahrom city)

Paying attention to the needs and wants of children, as future-makers of society, is one of necessity that emphasized by international institutions and organizations as well as in the country’s legal, juridical and development texts. Child-friendly city is one of the key concepts that by evaluating and analyzing it, we can shows what extent of wishes and expectations of children had met. Status of the child-friendly city index and its relationship with children's access to their essential uses is main issue of present quantitative and applied research that had done as case-by-case in the JAHROM city. Statistical population of study consists of children aged 6 to 12 years living in JAHROM (11678 persons) which 372 persons are considered as statistical sample. Main tool of data collection is a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity and reliability confirmed during the research methods process. Results of research showed that nine indicators of child-friendly city have an average lower than the baseline (number 3) and general situation of child-friendly city with an average of 2.1 is in an unfavorable situation. In addition, results showed that there is a positive statistical relationship between child-friendly city and children's access to their essential uses, at the level of 99% confidence, with correlation rate of 0.428. Results of linear regression showed that the independent variable of study alone could explains 18.3% of child-friendly city variance. Therefore, it seems necessary to improve the quantitative-qualitative level of uses of children in different neighborhoods of AHROM city.