DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF LIFE THE CITIES IN TURKEY USING SWARA INTEGRATED TOPSIS METHOD

Year 2018, Issue: 30, 67 - 87, 15.01.2018

Ertuğrul Ayyıldız , Emrullah Demirci

Abstract

The quality of life that affects individuals and societies’s expectations, anxiety, welfare and all other senses of is a constantly
increasing phenomenon nowadays. In this context, many aspects of the lives of individuals and societies need to be assessed
locally, using subjective and objective indicators. The main purpose of this contribution is to evaluate the quality of life in
cities in 11 different dimensions and to make an assessment of the development of the bad aspects. For this goal, the quality
of life in cities has been determined by using multi criteria decision making methods. In the scope of the study, 41 different
indicators which are effective in determining the quality of life of 81 cities in Turkey are handled. These indicators were
grouped by creating 11 indices such as health, education, security, access to infrastructure services, housing, working life,
income and wealth, environment, civil participation, social life, life satisfaction and index weights were determined by SWARA
method. Then cities are ranked according to their quality of life by TOPSIS method. When the results are examined, it is
determined that life quality is higher in economically developed cities.

Keywords

Multi Criteria Decision Making, SWARA, TOPSIS, Quality of Life, Turkey

TÜRKİYE’DE YER ALAN ŞEHİRLERİN YAŞAM KALİTELERİNİN SWARA ENTEGRELİ TOPSIS YÖNTEMİ İLE BELİRLENMESİ

Abstract

Bireylerin ve toplumların beklenti, endişe, refah ve diğer tüm duyularının toplamını etkileyen yaşam kalitesi, günümüzde
önemi sürekli artan bir olgudur. Bu bağlamda bireylerin ve toplumların yaşamlarının birçok boyutunu sübjektif ve objektif
göstergeler kullanarak konum bazlı değerlendirmek gerekmektedir. Yapılan bu katkının temel amacı, şehirlerdeki yaşam
kalitesinin 11 farklı boyutta incelenerek, eksik yönlerin geliştirilmesine yönelik bir değerlendirme yapmaktır. Bu amaçla çok
kriterli karar verme yöntemleri kullanılarak şehirlerdeki yaşam kalitesi belirlenmiştir. Çalışma kapsamında Türkiye’deki 81
şehrin yaşam kalitesini belirlemede etkili olan 41 farklı gösterge ele alınmıştır. Bu göstergeler, sağlık, eğitim, güvenlik, altyapı
hizmetlerine erişim, konut, çalışma hayatı, gelir ve servet, çevre, sivil katılım, sosyal yaşam, yaşam memnuniyeti şeklinde 11
indeks oluşturularak gruplanmış ve SWARA yöntemiyle indeks ağırlıkları elde edilmiştir. Ardından, TOPSIS yöntemiyle şehirler
yaşam kalitesine göre sıralanmıştır. Sonuçlar incelendiğinde ekonomik olarak gelişmiş şehirlerde yaşam kalitesinin daha yüksek
olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Çok Kriterli Karar Verme, SWARA, TOPSIS, Yaşam Kalitesi, Türkiye

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