INFLUENCING FACTORS OF CHILDBEARING-AGE COUPLES IN CONTRACEPTIVE USES

Abstract

The Government launches the Family Planning Program to improve the quality of human life by controlling births, reducing mortality, and increasing family welfare. This study aimed to analyze contraceptive use’s influencing factors of childbearing-age couples so that the result can be used as a basis for determining the direction of policies and types of family planning services. The influence factors in this study were identified based on the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) wave five data. This study analyzed data from the 2014/2015 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) Wave 5 Book 4 contraceptive questionnaire. Subjects in this study were women aged 15-49 years, constituting the largest number of contraceptive users. The total number of respondents was 10,184. The data were analyzed using logistic regression to get a prediction of the probability of contraceptive use at a certain time. The results of this study indicated the value of the marginal effect of each variable to determine the predictive probability of contraceptive use variables. The values of the marginal effect on each of the variables studied were 0.180 for women aged 30-39 years, 0.069 for women with 3-4 children, 0.063 for women who had experienced pregnancy, 0.029 for women who had larger family sizes or numbers, and 0.052 for women with secondary education. The probability to use contraceptive was greater for women aged 30-39 years, women with 3-4 children, women who have been pregnant before, women with large family members, and women with secondary education. Based on the results of this study, there is a need for more comprehensive family planning efforts targeting women to increase contraceptive use. So that the probability of using contraception can be more evenly distributed among women in all reproductive age ranges with various educational backgrounds and childbirth experiences.