Identification and Analysis Rank Advantages of Industries in Khorasan Provinces

This article aims to analyze industries of Khorasan provinces rankly in years 1374, 1378 and 1382. Factor analysis and numerical taxonomy methods have been used to achieve this goal. Furthermore some indexes including indexes related to workshops, employment, performance, energy consumption and exports of different industrial sections have been selected and ranked according to ISIC three-digit codes for years 1374, 1378 and 1382. The obtained results show that only a few numbers of the industries could keep their position in the three above mentioned years. It was also found that the industries which were considered as the first priority were not the same in the three mentioned years and it is shown that they are shifting to chemical, electrical and rubber industries.