چكيده لاتين :
Introduction
The nomadic community is the country's third human society (urban, rural, nomadic), which has
been strongly influenced by the political, economic and social developments of the society in
the century and especially in recent decades. These societies have many problems due to their
specific characteristics, such as elementary life, poor economic status, unfavorable level of
living, low levels of technology and education, and need to pay more attention to the
shortcomings of this class, especially in the social dimension. A group of this community has
been settled and a group has chosen the continuation of nomads. It is very important to examine
the difference in living conditions of both groups in order to strengthen the idea of settlement or
migration. One of the important aspects in this regard is quality of life, which has recently been
considered by researchers, planners and governments as one of the important issues. In the past,
achieving a desired quality of life has been limited to improving the appearance of people such
as income, education, and physical health and housing, but now a wide range of qualitative and
mental variables are considered. By prioritizing the social objective of development, the human
and sociological attitude towards quality of life has gradually begun to be found in the
development literatures, planning and macro policy makings of advanced countries, as far as not
only urban communities, but also rural and nomadic communities are concerned. Quality of life
findings can be used to recognize previous political strategies and design future planning
policies. However, less attention has been paid to the nomadic community and the scientific
research carried out in this area is more limited. In this study, comparative evaluation of quality
of life of settled and not-settled nomads of Koohrang city has been investigated.
Methodology
This is an applied study and is a descriptive-analytic one in terms of methodology. To collect
the required information, library and field methods have been used. A sample of 270 people
consisted of 153settled households and 117not-settled households. Collection instrument was
researcher made questionnaire and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the
data. The reliability of the questionnaire was obtained to be 0.821 using Cranach's alpha.
The sample was also questioned using Cochran's method by direct and simple random sampling.
In this study, questionnaires were selected as closed and multiple choice.
Results and Discussion
In the social dimension, the mean results of settled nomads equaled 149.00 and the mean nonsettled nomads was 117.85. Considering the significance level of 0.001, due to the fact that the
level of significance is less than 5%, the mean social inequality among the two groups of
population is confirmed. The mean physical indicators for settled nomads were 145.41 and for
non-settled nomads were equal to 122.55. Considering the significance level of 0.015, due to the
fact that the level of significance is less than 5%, it can be stated that there is a difference
between the mean of the physical indices of the two communities. In the environmental
dimension, the mean index for the settled nomads was equal to 189.01 and mean environmental
indicators for the not-settled nomads was equal to 65.53.Considering the significance level of
0.000, due to the fact that the level of significance is less than 5%,therefore, the inequality of
mean environmental indicators between the two groups of settled and not-settled nomad
communities is confirmed and it can be stated that there is a difference between the mean of
environmental indicators of the two societies.
In the economic dimension, the mean index for the settled group was equal to 144.07 and for the
not-settled nomads was equal to 124.29.Considering the significance level of 0.038 at
confidence level 95%, due to the fact that the level of significance is less than 5%, therefore, it
can be stated that there is a difference between the mean of economic indicators of two
communities.
Also, the findings showed that the two groups of settled and not-settled nomadic tribes have the
greatest difference in the environmental dimension, because the average environmental
dimension for the settled nomad population is equal to 189.01 and for the not-settled nomads is
equal to 65.53.Also, its significance level was 0.000, which indicates a significant difference for
this dimension for the two groups. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is the greatest
difference between the settled and not-settled nomadic communities in the environmental
dimension.
Conclusion
The results showed that there is a significant difference between the two settled and not-settled
communities in terms of social and physical, environmental and economic dimensions, with
respect to the means and the levels of significance. Although there was not great significant
difference between the two communities in terms of their mean economic dimension, but with
significance level (less than 0.05), it was statistically significant. However, the nomads settled
in all aspects of the quality of life are in a better position than the not-settled nomads. Also, the
greatest difference was observed between the two nomadic communities in the environmental
dimension.
