THE USE OF DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS TO DEFINE THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VERTICAL HOUSING (FLATS) INHABITANTS AND HOUSE INHABITANTS IN SULAYMANIA CITY

The social relationships between inhabitants considered an important subject in housing planning both vertical and horizontal type in flats and houses. There are many authors studied the social relationship in residential environment with planning and designing housing. The study of factors effective on social relationship is important in social integration of residents. The research goal: using discriminant analysis to determine factors effective on social relationship in flats and houses residents in Sulaymania. The problem of research to study the ring of social relationship effective on residents on the environment in flats and houses by different factors, the research hypothesizes that there are many factors effective of social relationship. The research studied two samples, the first sample represent flats in a vertical housing, whereas, the second sample represent houses in horizontal housing. The paper used the discriminant analysis to get out linear function – discriminant function to discriminant between the two samples. The research results were determined many factors effected an social relationship of the residents as: The problems between residents (X5), the size of residential units according family sizes (X1), the overlook between the residential units.(X6), using green area (X4), years number using the units (X2), the units ownership (X3), the overlook between the opposite units (X6), the overlook between the other units (X7), number of visiting between residents (X8). ) ( (Fried, Festinger, Back, Rainwater) .