The study is to study the performance of sport activities in the provinces of Iran through an analytical and developmental approach. So it considers the comparative nature of sporting input and output in Iran provinces. Accordingly, we used indicators of the number of sports complexes, swimming ...
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The study is to study the performance of sport activities in the provinces of Iran through an analytical and developmental approach. So it considers the comparative nature of sporting input and output in Iran provinces. Accordingly, we used indicators of the number of sports complexes, swimming pool, active coach and training courses as input indicators and index of the number of athletes in the national team as an output indicator (as an effective communication with development), and have been analyzed with the application of the method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) through WinDEAP software.
The results show that the provinces of Tehran, West Azarbaijan, Fars, Mazandaran and Hamedan have a good performance (compared to other provinces) in the sports industry and are considered as the reference provinces (representatives) for other provinces, while other provinces of the country are below the efficient border. In this case, the least performance is related to the provinces of South Khorasan, North Khorasan and Kurdistan, respectively.
Also, the most sensitive indicator in this section is the number of athletes who are members of the national team of each province, which has been used as the benchmark for research.
Also Despite the fact that in areas (such as Isfahan) sports development is gaining in sport by expanding the infrastructure, the sustainable development of this category depends on the cost-benefit of the sports industry and this will be done by investing in sport infrastructure in the five most effective provinces.