Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Situation in the Rural Districts of Iran: Case Study on Pain Jam District, Torbatejam City

摘要

The main purpose of this study is evaluating the entrepreneurship status with respect to the effective factors on creation of the rural entrepreneurship opportunities. To achieve this objective, the impression of economic, cultural-social, infrastruc-tural and individual factors on creating the entrepreneurial opportunities were considered and reviewed the questionnaire was designed and the status of the society under evaluation, was explained. The statistical society of the present study, includes the total population of Pain Jam rural district of Torbatejam city, dispersed in Gol Banu and Zam rural districts. According to the statistics taken from Department of Population and Housing Census 2016, its population is 19577 people. To determine the statistical community among the villages of the studied district, 8 villages were selected as the sample. The form and content validation in the questionnaire of the present research was examined and confirmed by specifying the questions with respect to the components extracted from the past reliable researches as well as through the judgments made by some of the Professors and experts engaging in the field of rural management. Instrumentation reliability of the second part was analyzed by Cronbach's alpha based on the pretest. In the inferential statistics, generalizing the results obtained from the sample to the statistical communityof the research, one sample t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Kruskal Wallis, Kolmogorov - Smirnov, Friedman, binomial-test were applied.