Study of Education Index and Two Dimensional Index of Development Based on the Principal Component Analysis Method in Iran Provinces

One of the basic principles of development in any country is education sector. Nowadays access to education is an important factor in creating many of inequalities. Also, the mutual and cyclic relationship between education and economy caused the focus of this research to be on these dimensions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to estimate the indexes of education, economy and two dimensional developments of each province by the method of principal component analysi.

In the first step, by using 11 related indices (general, higher, technical and vocational education) of which its correlation was approved by Bartlett's test, the education index was acquired and educational inequalities of their 30 provinces of the country has been studied. In the second step by applying 11 economic indices that indicate the economic status of the country regions, the economic index was estimated and economic inequality has been analyzed. The data set of this research, which have been collected from the available data method is related to the year 2018.

The findings of this research indicate that the two provinces Alborz and Tehran have the highest two dimensional index of development in the country and Sistan and Baluchestan province with the lowest index suffers from the inequalities of development in the country.

Based on the correlation matrix between education and economics dimension, there is 75% correlation, so it can be generally concluded that provinces that have better educational index enjoy higher rank in economy and vice versa.