Measurement of Awareness of Citizenship Rights (Case Study: North Khorasan Province)

Current work was conducted aiming at measuring public awareness of the citizenship rights in North Khorasan Province. Research design is descriptive survey of correlation type in terms of data collection conducted on a sample (n = 384) in North Khorasan Province in 2013. Expensiveness and lack of citizens' willingness to answer a legal questionnaire were limitations of the work. The research tested 8 hypotheses. According to findings and correlation test results, there is positive relationship between awareness of citizenship rights and attitudes, media use, participation in public life, social status, education and age; however it is a weak relationship. Considering t-test results, there is relationship between citizenship rights and gender. Considering F-test, there is no relationship between awareness of citizenship rights and ethnicity. Considering regression test results, attitude, media use, presence in the public arena, education and age components affect awareness of citizenship rights. Considering results for regression test, social status, gender, and ethnicity do not affect citizenship rights. It is concluded awareness of citizenship rights is in average level in the province and majority of citizens have low social status, thus governmental and non-governmental organizations should attempt in a more planned manner in this area

Keywords:

citizen , citizenship rights , attitude to citizenship rights , Ethnicities , social status