Study of Factors Influencing Goods Smuggling in Boushehr Province

The aim of this survey is to "study the factors influencing goods smuggling in Boushehr Province". Research hypotheses with regard to factors affecting smuggling were posed. These factors include: economic status of individuals, the performance of organizations associated with the smuggling, profitability, efficient level of existing laws against smuggling, tariff levels and tendency to consume the of smuggled goods. The research method is descriptive - survey. Statistical community includes "all shopkeepers and traders, officials and experts associated with the smuggling of goods such as police, customs, suspending department, inspection office, courts, intelligence office ... and academic and education experts, and traffickers of goods in 1388.amounting to 26000 people finally, by use of proportionate and simple random sampling, the number of 370 (215 experts and officials, 95 shopkeepers and traders, and 60 smugglers) were selected. Data collection instrument is two researcher-made questionnaires. The first questionnaire was for officials and experts with 8 questions, The second question naire was for traders and good smugglers with 9 questions, Finally, the reliability coefficient of their attitudes gauge was 0/84 by using Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was performed on two levels: descriptive statistics (the mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, Kendall coefficient of agreement, percentage and frequency distribution table) and inferential statistics (Kalmogrof-Smirnov univariate test, HSD (Tukey), a univariate variance analysis, t-test of two dependent samples and univariatet). Results show that the attitudes of three groups (officials and experts, shopkeepers and traders, smugglers) based on economic status of individuals, the performance of organizations associated with the smuggling, profitability, efficiency of existing laws against smuggling, the customs tariffs of goods and the tendency to consume is moderate