An Investigation into Effective Factors on the Quality of Life in Urban Areas of Farsi Province

Studies related to the quality of life and investigating it in human societies have been of great importance in recent days as an axis of government efficiency. Such studies have always tried to be increased in human residences by investigating factors affecting the improvement of quality of life both in objective (availability of material facilities), and subjective aspects (satisfaction). This research has used a correlation analysis based on the results of a 20-percent count of statistics by the Iranian Statics Center in 1385 (2006) to investigate objective aspects of the quality of life and factors affecting it inurban areas of Fars province. Indicatorsused in this research include availability of facilities to families and their housing quality. The results show a direct relationship between population size of the residence and the facilities available to the family as well as their quality. The higher the education of family guardian-- is which results in a better job opportunity -- the better facilities available to the family and the higher their quality will be. On the other hand, in small cities (those with a population below 50,000) better quality housesare available due to lower prices, yetit does not affectavailable facilities family.