Classification of Ilam province cities based on cultural development indicators

Reduction of inequality in using a society’s resources, achievements, and facilities is one of the main fundamental criteria of development. For the effect of culture on development, creating many assets such as cultural skills and products can be mentioned that have a great effect on promoting the welfare of society. The purpose of this study, which is theoretical, practical, and descriptive-analytical in terms of purpose, is to investigate the cultural development profile by evaluating 10 indices in Ilam province based on the statistics of 2016 and in line with the main purpose of this research. Theoretical data of the research were collected by library method and after extraction of indices; weights of each index were obtained from TOPSIS model. Then the weights from the Shannon entropy and the TOPSIS model were applied to the distance maps and interpolated using the Kriging lateral program. Finally the final outputs were extracted using Fuzzy overly and 0.9 gamma spatial analyses. The results of TOPSIS model show that the highest rank of cultural development indices in the study area belongs to Ilam city with average of 0.999 and the lowest rank is Badrad city with average of 0.060. Findings show that Ilam and Abadan cities are relatively deprived in terms of cultural development, developing, Chardawal and valley cities, Dehloran and Ivan in moderate condition, Malekshahi and Mehran relatively deprived and Sirvan and Badarah.