Social Sustainable Development in Iran and the World: By Data Mining Approach

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Mona Ahani ¹ , Morteza Mousakhani ² , Mohammad Ali Afshar Kazemi ³

1 - PhD, Department of Public Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Public Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-08-26 Accepted : 2020-08-26 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: Iran, Social Development, Sustainable Development, World Bank,

Abstract :

Social development is in the next development of development that emphasizes the human interaction, institutions and social relationships together, and focuses on them. In this study, social indicators provided on the website, the World Bank examined, that the use of the Delphi method and the use of expert opinion, etc. 6 the index on the status of sustainable development in Iran, effective as was. In order to explore sustainable social development, six selected indicators (Population growth rate, labor productivity, government costs for education, health costs, adult literacy rates, hopes to live at birth) for the 186 countries in the world were extracted from the World Bank. The aim of this research is to investigate the status of Iran based on six indicators selected social area and determine the position of Iran in other countries of the world, using the technique of clustering؛ And then identifying the most similar countries in the last 18 years is the state of sustainable social development in Iran. Research findings show that, Iran, in terms of social indicators of sustainable development, also has the largest cluster with Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, which were grouped 14 times between 1996 and 2016 and placed 12 times in a cluster with Indonesia and Venezuela has taken; And 11 times with Turkey, and has coincided 10 times with Algeria, Angola, Argentina and Vietnam. In the end, based on research findings, suggestions for future research are presented.