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Abstract

This research was aimed to study 3 objectives; (1) quality of life of the in communities under the administration of Local Governments in Upper Northern Region, (2) activities under the  administration of Local Governments, and (3) factors  influencing the quality of life of the communities under the administration of Local Governments in Upper Northern Region.

The samples consisted of 936 respondents derived from deputies and personals of sub-district municipalities offices, sub-district municipality representatives, and Local residents from sub-district municipalities in 8 provinces of Upper Northern Region. The instrument was a questionnaire. The results  show as follows; 1) the overall quality of life of the communities was in good level,  2) the overall practices of the activities under the administration of sub-district municipality offices were in high level, 3)  the Stepwise Multiple  Regression Analysis  indicated that 5 activities under the administration of sub-district municipality offices influencing  quality of life of the communities significant at .01 level, there were promoting activities, Education Promoting and Small Children development, Health care activities, Promotion of  Religious, Cultural and Tradition activities, and enhancing Unity activities. They had the predictive power of 59.70 percent. The best predictor of Quality of Life of the communities was the enhancing Unity activities. However, the infra-structure development activities could not predict the Quality of Life of the communities.