Rural Housing Satisfaction Ranking Using the Vikor Technique (Case study: Varamin County)

Document Type : علمی

Authors

• Naser Shafiei Sabet
• Negin Sadat Mirvahedi

Shahied Beheshti University

10.22067/jrrp.v6i1.55736

Abstract

Extended abstract
1. INTRODUCTION
In the last few decades, in development context and literature, order to, life satisfaction among the key indexes is studied to evaluate the welfare of the society and the developing level of it. detachable from people’s life. Housing is one of the effective factors in life quality. Quality of life is a complex and multi-dimensional concept. Some interpret it as public welfare, social welbings, happiness, satisfaction and so on. The concept of satisfaction from house has attracted many attentions. Among the inter field satisfaction and evaluation people’s satisfaction from housing makes the custodians of this fact to prepare the development of housing projects. in order to evaluate house, a suitable factor is satisfaction concept and this points must be paid attention to the fact that in people’s satisfaction discussion knowing that why some families in comparison with other families are not satisfied with their house. This is an important issue.
2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
It is thought that satisfaction difference of the house (real house and expected house) is depended upon house condition and neighborhood location. According to the previous studies and literatures, for house satisfaction, there are 3 theories: 1) House Needs Theory, 2) Lack of House Theory, 3) Mental Structure Theory.
House Needs theory means having or lack of satisfaction from house in life cycle. “Lack of House “theory means satisfaction or lack of it from house itself and “Mental Structure “theory means providing a condition between needs and requirements for each aspect of house. In most experimental studies in house satisfaction, all 3 theories are used. In a group of these researches, individual’s social aspect and also understanding house condition is studied.
3. METHODOLOGY
In general approach the present study from gathering data point of view is based on library-documentary information and field survey. One of the main sources of reaching rural house factors is the documents of a country which the most important of them is basic rules, 4th and 5th development plan, and Islamic Republic Housing Foundation and house making ministry. Based on this, 23 factors like Figure number 2 are identified and the relevant info of the factors is gathered. Statistic society is 78 villages in Tehran’s desert territory. To determine the sample size about 50% of the villages equal to 40 villages were chosen randomly. Then by the use of Cochran formula, probable accuracy 5% and variance 0.25 equal to 400 households was reached. Finally based on “probability proportional to size the random sample in each of the sample villages was calculated and in them the questionnaires were completed
4. DISCUSSION
The process of VIKOR model is as following:
A) Imagine we have m alternatives and n criterions.
B) Determining the best and the worst quantity for the entire standard (Functions):
C) Determining weight and the importance of qualifications:
D) Calculating alternatives’ distance from the ideal solution and finally adding them up for final value as
E) Calculating VIKOR quantity Qi
So when v is bigger than 0/5, Qi indexed will lead to agreed majority and when it is smaller than 0/5, Qi index shows the negative majority vision. In general, when v equals to 0/5, it shows the agreementary vision of the evaluating experts.
The results showed that in rural areas of Varamin’s country about housing satisfaction are in different level. 31 villages have very little satisfaction, 8 villages have low satisfaction and just 1 village has very much satisfaction. The results of the present study in accordance with low level of housing satisfaction equals to Rafieian, Asgari and Asgarizadeh, Shayan, Taghilou and Khosrobeigi, Jamshidi and Jamini findings.
5. CONCLUSION
Toghan’s village with rank 1 and very much satisfaction level is at the top and Hosein abad kashani village with very little satisfaction rate has the lowest rank. Villages from level of satisfaction point of view were similar and they don’t have very much with in common each other. But placing 30 villages out of 40 case study villages with very low satisfaction level show that satisfaction level in the area’s case study households is very lower than average. Although different satisfaction level can have effect from different issues in case study villages but in general what must be paid attention to is that if this issue is not studied and ignored when time passes leads to social – economical unbalancing in households and leads to immigration of most villages to cities to access facilities and welfare and this matter because of Varamin’s country location near Tehran metropolitan city as the capital and leads to conflicts in villages as origin and cities as destination.

Keywords

• Satisfaction
• Rural Housing
• VIKOR technique
• Varamin County

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