Social structure analyzes are made by interviewing each household in a city, through a questionnaire. The aim to be achieved with these surveys is to determine the social structure in the first place because determining the social structure is essential to provide better service to the residents of the city. Evaluations made based on households, streets and neighborhoods are also very important to identify urgent needs and avoid unnecessary investments and expenditures.

 

The information determined primarily in the social structure analysis is the geographical location and transportation situation of the city, its history, the dominant forms of livelihood in the city (industry, agriculture, etc.), the population structure and the cultural structure of the city. While examining the cultural structure of the city, the number and types of schools in the same city and the number and types of healthcare facilities are also analyzed.

 

Once these have been identified, there are a few more topics of interest too: These are demographic information of households, work and employment information, disease and disability information, housing, contact and vehicle information, and information on the need for assistance.

 

Demographic information of the household consists of information such as gender, age, position at home, marital status, education level, foreign and local languages they know, etc.

 

Job and employment information includes information such as occupation information, sector information, employment status of spouses, and various special skills like carpet weaving, wood painting, playing a musical instrument, etc.

 

Disease and disability information includes information such as individuals with chronic diseases, individuals with cancer, disabled individuals, who covers the treatment costs of these individuals (SGK, green card, etc.), martyrs or veterans in the household and this might be the most fragile point of this type of analysis.

 

In housing, communication and vehicle information, information such as ownership status of the residence, ownership of other property, which type of heating is used, whether the household has a vehicle, if any, what type of vehicle and the presence of internet and telephone at the household is examined.

 

Under the title of need for help, situations such as getting any aid from any person or institution, and urgent assistance requests they expect from the municipality (aid for fuel, food, clothing, etc.) are discovered.

 

As LTA Global, in the light of all this information, we make discoveries like the emotional ties of the individuals living in the city with the city, the way they behave towards the city, the way they behave towards the common areas, the ties related to the regions, the values they carry from the region they come to the city, future designs for the city, their future designs for themselves, their perceptions of the city they live in, the values they have acquired in that city, their expectations from the city administration, their satisfaction, dissatisfaction, complaints, their demands for participation in the city administration, future designs for the city, their future designs for themselves, their perceptions of the city they live in, the values they have acquired in that city, their expectations from the city administration, their satisfaction, dissatisfaction, complaints, demands for participation in the city administration, urbanization and civic consciousness tendencies, socio-cultural differentiation and consciousness between generations and we suggest strategies for this discoveries to be used and  we provide this social data to the city information system that will aid in city planning for the future.

 

What we aim with the social structure analysis as LTA Global, is to simplify the examination of this data through various software and to make it possible to make faster and more efficient decisions when it comes to social improvement policies.

 

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