Assessing Rural Youth's Tendency to Rural Residence and its Affective Factors in Villages of Qasr-e Shirin County of Iran

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1 MSc. Student, Department of Extension, Communications and Rural Development, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Extension, Communications and Rural Development, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran

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Rural youth are important in improving economic and social conditions of rural families. The purpose of this study was to assess rural youth's tendency to rural residence as well as to identify its affective factors. The statistical population consisted of all the young people aged 15 to 29 living in villages of Qasr-e Shirin cointy of Iran (N=4230). The sample size was determined through Cochran's formula (n=118), and a cluster sampling method was used for selecting samples. Descriptive and correlational research methods were used in this study. Data analysis was carried out by using SPSS 20. The results showed that the mean rank of the rural youth's tendency to rural residence was 3.25 in Likert scale. In addition, multiple regression analysis showed that the two variables of 'self-worth in the village' and 'tendency to employment in the agricultural sector' with positive role and the three variables of 'inadequate government support', 'annual household income from non-agricultural activities' and 'lack of recreational and sport facilities in the village' with negative role explained 59.7 percent of the variance in the dependant variable.

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Village and Development
Volume 18, Issue 4
July 2015
Pages 1-16

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