Journal of Current Researches on Social Sciences (JoCReSS), cilt.7, sa.2, ss.271-286, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)
The purpose of this research is to analyse the demographic structure of people, who live in the central districts in Erzurum, and their attitudes for Winter Olympics. Regarding the balance among the people, between 18-35 ages, who live in the districts of Palandöken, Aziziye and Yakutiye inErzurum city, and interviewing with totally 400 people face to face this research was formed. A survey was used to collect data in this research. The researcher determined the survey by making use of literature and reviewing the opinion of expert. The questions of the survey was prepared through the criteria of jury while choosing Olympic cities. The questions of this survey have to have register of the candidateship, which will be presented to IOC, and the structure of within the questions form of IOC, and it has to response for some questions under specific titles. Literal descriptions may change among different types of documents and the level of detail may be more or less. These criteria are considered as; Vision, concept and heritage, Sport and facilities, Environment and meteorology, Accommodation, Transportation, Medical social services and doping control, Safety and security, Technology and energy, Legal issues, Customs, Visa operations, the support of Government and Public, Finance and marketing. Our expectations from the questions of the survey is to be met what the criteria want.
There are 16 multiple-choice questions in the first section of the relevant survey. Our second assessment consists of 31 questions. To determine the demographic characteristics of participants through the first 5 questions and their interests and participation level to sport through 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th questions and their approach for Olympics through the other questions. In the second scale of the survey, the first 15 questions were prepared to understand how Universiade Winter Games was perceived. The questions between 16 and 23 are to get information about the perception of EYOF that will be organized in 2017. The other questions from 24 to 31 were compiled from the questions of Olympic committee based mainly upon what kind of necessities the cities of Olympic candidateship should have. The data from these surveys is analysed by means of the software of SSPS 21.0 in computer environment. While the data was, being analysed both the analysis of Frequency and percentage and Chi-square test used to compare the socio- economic characteristics of the districts, where they live in, to their interest and the level of participation to the sport, were used.