@ARTICLE{Bagheri, author = {Avazalipour, Sadegh and Taheri, Ghodrat and Solaimani, reza and Bagheri, Farideh and }, title = {Review of Land Ceding in Industrial Zones and a Model for Predicting It by the Number of Permits Issued}, volume = {21}, number = {2}, abstract ={Due to facilities and great advantages of industrial zones in investment, they provide a necessary ground for the development of major industrial activities. Owing to important role of industrial zones in economic development, after analyzing the land ceding trend in the nation's industrial zones during the period 2004-2008, this paper tries to present an appropriate model to predict the lands needed for ceding for 30 provinces in the years 2009-2014. This prediction has been conducted by using panel data. Review of the results shows that the land ceding trend in the first year of the mentioned period was ascending and in the end of the period it was descending. It means that the ceding rate reduced and reaches from 18.4 percent in 2004 to16.12 percent in 2008. The reduction of land ceding in this year, shows that the growth of industrial activities in the country decreased. In fitted models for each province, the land needed for ceding can be estimated by using the number of establishment permits issued in the Industrial zones. The coefficient of the models for land ceding is 0.82. Therefore, we can say more than 80 percent of the variance of the dependent variable (land ceding) results from the independent variable (number of permits issued for establishment). }, URL = {http://ijoss.srtc.ac.ir/article-1-88-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijoss.srtc.ac.ir/article-1-88-en.pdf}, journal = {Iranian Journal of Official Statistics Studies}, doi = {}, year = {2011} }