Identifying Factors Affecting on Rural Immigration to Sardasht City

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Reza Movahedi ¹ , Masoud Samiyan ²

1 - Associate Professor, Dep. of Agricultural Extension and Education, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural Extension and Education, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

Received: 2017-01-16 Accepted : 2018-06-02 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Villages of Sardasht City, Rural-Urban immigration, Rural Development Planning,

Abstract :

Most of researches on rural immigration to cities have mainly focused on identifying reasons and factors for taking place this emigration until new solutions and strategies can be presented for rural development planning. Therefore, this study has focused on exploring various factors affecting the rural immigration to Sardasht city. The study was a quantitative and descriptive-analytic in terms of nature but in terms of data collection method it has used a kind of surveying methodology. Data collection tool was a questionnaire that validated by face validity method as well as the questionnaire's reliability tested by using a Cronbach's Alpha technique. Statistical society of the study was emigrants of 10 villages of Sardasht that have been settled in cities and their population was 600 people. Using Cochran formula, 120 of them were selected from the whole society randomly. According to the results of this study, factors affecting emigration of rural immigrants in Sardasht city can be divided into ten factors that these factors, in total, determine more than 74% of effective factors in emigration: economic and supportive (23%), imbalance between rural and urban facilities (10%), communication and information (8%), cultural (8%), geographical (5%), income (4%), infrastructure (4%), weather and climate (3%), social (3%), and personal factors (2%).

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