The upward trend of divorce rate in Iran, has urged officials, researchers and sociologists to investigate this issue and it’s affecting factors. Based on the documents of Iranian Statistical Center (ISC), there has been a raise in divorce/marriage ratio from 7.9  per houndred in 1996 to 12.3 in 1999 and 16.3 in 2006 (ISC,2010).
The present study, focusing on the socio-economic indices of the divorced population in Fars province, picks up a different view from that of other studies conducted in this field. This article tries to identify the relationship and rules applicable to personal and employment variables among divorced population using data mining and spatial data analysis techniques. The data investigated in this study include a sample of 370 divorced individuals from the total divorced population of 21601 in Fars, who have declared themselves “without marriage partner due to divorce” in the census 2006. The sample members are both male and female from all 24 counties of Fars province.
The results showed that, the raise of employment and educational level of women in urban areas is realted to increase in the percentages of divorced women. On the county, low education, unemployment, and place of work are significant factors among divorced men. An investigation on the spatial distribution pattern of divorced men and women in cities and rural area indicates that the formation of neighboring spans of divorced population in cities significantly are located in the central region of the province, and in villages which mostly are located in south, southeast and north of the province.