The Role of the Social Security Organization (SSO) on the Economic and Social Welfare of Iran from the Viewpoint of Citizens Covered by the Social Security Organization (SSO) in West Azarbaijan Province
الموضوعات : مجله بین المللی علوم اجتماعیTaha Abdollahpour Mogadam 1 , Soroush Fathi 2 , Mehrdad Navabakhsh 3
1 - Ph.D. Student in Sociology, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Sociology, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
الکلمات المفتاحية: Social Security Organization, Economic Welfare, social welfare, vision document,
ملخص المقالة :
This study was conducted with the aim of identifying the role of the social security organization (SSO) in the economic and social welfare of Iran. The present study is considered as an applied research (descriptive-survey type) in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this study in the first stage included experts and academic faculty members of the university and in the second stage all the citizens of West Azarbaijan Province, and in the first stage, 12 experts and academic faculty members of the university were selected using the purposeful snowball sampling method and in the second stage, 384 people according to Cochran's formula and cluster sampling method. The research tool was the finalized questionnaire resulting from the opinions of the Delphi group including the activities of the social security organization, economic and social welfare in the form of 35 items, which was distributed among the statistical sample after verifying its validity and reliability. According to the results, the activities of social security organization and its subgroups have a positive and significant effect on the economic welfare (P<0.05) and social welfare (P<0.05) of the citizens of West Azerbaijan province. Therefore, it can be concluded that the performance of the social security organization can play an effective role in realizing the economic and social policies of the government.