Studing the economic factors affecting consumer spending in Syria using factor Analysis

This study aimed at identifying the best indicators representing economic factors using Factor Analysis, as well as developing a mathematical model linking principal components which represent both the economic factors and consumer spending in Syria using Multi-linear regression analysis. A descriptive analytical approach is used in this study. The study results from Factor Analysis show that there are three principal components which best represent the economic factors. The first component includes: the number of workforce working for free, the number of paid workforce, consumer price index, the average annual GDP per capita. The second component includes: interest rate, self-employed workforce. The third component includes the number of employers. A mathematical model is developed to link the above three components of the economic factors and the total monthly household spending average in Syria during ( 2000-2010).

Study and Assessment System of Economic Factors Affecting the Spatial Variation of Needs of the Population to Services and Consumption in the Spatial Organization of Urban Centers and Regions Study in the Theoretical and Methodological Basis

The study assesses the impact of economic factors in the geography of services in terms of need, consumption and spatial organization are topics and trends in a study in this new world. These economic factors form a stand-alone system that belongs to the larger system that includes all the factors in the geography of services. System of these economic factors is composed of the five factors that constitute the elements of this system as follows : 1 - the geographical economic location. 2 - transport routes, and means . 3 - Capital . 4 - SOA (substructure of service) . 5 - economic resources and aspects of economic activity in urban centers and regions. Economic factors interact with each other within the system, and in at the same time they interact with the system of human factors and the system of natural factors for shaping the service sectors of the place by showing the spatial variation in the needs of the population to services and they use them, and its spatial organization of place in urban centers and regions. Economic factors are different in the strength of their impact in this variation and spatial organization of the services sector of the population, depending on different areas or trends in the study in of the geography of services, and the first trend studies the needs of the population is services. The quality of these to services, and the second trend studies consumption of the population to these services, and the third trend studies the spatial organization of the services sector of the population. A system of economic factors forms inputs which interact together, and at the same time interact with the system of natural factors and human factors, to give outputs that show the nature of services for the population and the characteristics of its distribution and development in place .