خريطة الِحرْمان لميدان التعليم في مدينة السماوة

The Deprivation Map of Education Field in Al Samawa City

The current study deals with one of the most prominent human problems that Iraq suffers from in general, and the city of Samawah in particular. The researcher tries through it, to shed light on one of the most important concepts of development, and the most complex one, which is the problem of deprivation of education. This study is built on the basis of official national indicators represented by the study of the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, marked by the map of deprivation and living standards in Iraq for the years (2006-2011). The study deals with the map of deprivation of education in the city of Samawah through seven indicators that are analyzed statistically based on the standards guide for each indicator, the analysis of the indicator includes (follow-up study, educational level for adults, walking distance to primary school and means of transportation, distance to secondary school walking and by means and the degree of satisfaction with the school), where the study sample is divided into three sections: (deprived, satisfied, better off.
The study aims to reveal the factors affecting the spatial variation of the deprivation of education in the city of Samawah and the extent of the relationship between these factors and the reasons that the study reached, and the role of the population characteristics of the residents of the city of Samawah at the level of individuals and at the level of families in the spatial variation of deprivation of education by studying the relationship between (sex of the head of the household, household income, family size), and the proportional distribution method of categories is used to show the levels of spatial variation of education deprivation at the level of residential neighborhoods in the city of Samawah. The results of the study show that the percentage of those deprived of the study follow-up indicator in the city of Samawah amounted to (6%), while the percentage of those deprived of the indicator of the educational level of adults is (34%), as this indicator recordes the rates of deprivation among the seven studied indicators, as for the indicators that deal with deprivation. For the household level, the study shows that the percentage of the deprived in the index of the distance to reach primary school (walking) is (3%), while the deprivation among families that use a means of transportation decreases to (2%). Their percentage is (5.1%), while the rates of deprivation for the same indicator among families that use a means of transportation rise to (31.3%). In the city of Samawah, and its reflection on the deprivation of education. The study also shows four supposed reasons for deprivation of education in the city, which are social reasons (34%), economic reasons (30%), and planning reasons (19), while the other reasons are a group of private reasons which reaches (17%).