: As in other countries, in Indonesia, children are considered very valuable both as themselves as well as human resources that will determine the future of the country. For various reasons, there are still quite a lot of children in Indonesia, especially in West Sumatra are leaving school and entering the labor market too early. This in turn will lead to low levels of school enrollment. The low level of school participation is allegedly linked to the issue of child labor hours. Long working hours for children will lose the impact of educational opportunities, learning time is reduced even none at all. Using data Susenas West Sumatra 2012 and logistic regression showed that employment status variable RT head, sector head of household work (agriculture), the working hours of children, as well as the status of child labor (workers family / unpaid) significant partial affect the chances of child labor to school. While variables such as gender, region, education level of the head of household, type of work  RT, the proportion of food, as well as the age of the head of household is partially not affect the chance of working children aged 10-15 years to go to school Kata Kunci : logistic regression model, odds ratio, working children   Abstrak : Seperti halnya di negara lain, di Indonesia anak-anak dianggap sangat berharga baik sebagai diri mereka sendiri maupun sebagai sumber daya manusia yang akan menentukan masa depan negara. Untuk berbagai alasan, masih cukup banyak anak-anak di Indonesia khususnya Sumatera Barat yang meninggalkan sekolah dan memasuki pasar tenaga kerja terlalu dini. Hal ini nantinya akan berakibat kepada rendahnya tingkat partisipasi sekolah. Rendahnya tingkat partipasi sekolah ini diduga terkait dengan isu jam kerja anak. Jam kerja yang panjang bagi anak akan memberi dampak kehilangan kesempatan memperoleh pendidikan, waktu belajar berkurang bahkan tidak ada sama sekali. Dengan menggunakan data Susenas Sumatera Barat tahun 2012 dan regresi logistik penelitian ini memberikan hasil bahwa variabel status pekerjaan kepala RT, sektor pekerjaan kepala rumah tangga (sektor pertanian), jam kerja anak, serta status pekerjaan anak (pekerja keluarga/tidak dibayar) secara parsial signifikan mempengaruhi peluang pekerja anak untuk bersekolah. Sedangkan variabel seperti jenis kelamin, wilayah, tingkat pendidikan kepala RT, jenis pekerjaan kepla RT, proporsi makanan, serta umur kepala RT secara parsial tidak berpengaruh terhadap peluang pekerja anak usia 10-15 tahun untuk masuk ke sekolah. Kata Kunci : regresi logistik, odds ratio, pekerja anak

Kondisi perekonomian yang semakin tidak menentu, harga- harga kebutuhan bahan pokok yang semakin meningkat, sementara pendapatan keluarga yang cenderung tidak tetap berakibat pada terganggungnya stabilitas perekonomian keluarga. Kondisi ini juga membuat perubahan peranan perempuan dalam perekonomian keluarga. Peranan perempuan salah satunya dapat dikembangkan melalui Kelompok Wanita Tani (KWT). Mitra pada pegabdian ini adalah Kelompok Wanita Tani “Comand Jaya” Kecamatan Tajung Emas, Kabupaten Tanah Datar dan Kelompok Wanita Tani “Gondoria” Kecamatan Tajung Emas, Kabupaten Tanah Datar, degan permasalahan: (1) Terganggunya stabilitas perekonomian keluarga, (2) Pendapatan perbulan yang tidak menentu, (3) Tidak termanfaatkan sumberdaya rumah tanngga secara efisien, (4) Rendahnya pengetahuan anggota KWT dalam pemafaatan sumberdaya rumah tangga untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan keluarga. Berdasarkan masalah yanng ada, maka target luaran metode peningkatan pemahaman dan keterampilan masyarakat dalam budidaya jamur dan pengolahannya yang nantinya akan meningkatkan kuatitas dan kuanlitas produk serta meningkatkan kesejaheraan masyarakat.

This study analyzes the socio-economic effect on the efficiency of electrical energy use in the urban household sector in West Sumatra (Urban Area Case Study) in 2020. The results of this study explain that the variables of per capita expenditure, education, employment status, age, and communication technology have a positive effect on the intensity of electrical energy use. While the variable of building ownership status is the only variable that has a negative effect on the intensity of electricity use in the urban household sector in West Sumatra. The decrease in the intensity of the use of electrical energy in the urban household sector in West Sumatra reflects the condition of efficiency in the use of electrical energy. On the other hand, the increase in the intensity of use of electrical energy in the urban household sector in West Sumatra reflects conditions in the efficient use of electrical energy.

This study aims to determine and analyze the influence between monetary variables consisting of foreign investment and inflation on economic growth, and the influence of non-monetary variables consisting of total labor force and economic growth. The type of this research is descriptive research, where the data used is the time series data from 1984 to 2015 obtained from the World Bank and Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) website, which is analyzed by Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The results of this study indicate that the monetary variables of foreign investment have a positive and significant impact on economic growth in Indonesia and inflation has a negative and significant effect on economic growth in Indonesia, while the non-monetary variable is the total labor force has an insignificant and positive effect on economic growth in Indonesia and Government spending has a significant and positive impact on economic growth in Indonesia.

This study aims to determine and analyze the influence of interest rate and bank-specific to bank loans growth and also analyze the causality between interest rate, bank loas growth and economic growth with inflation rate in Indonesia. The type of this research is descriptive and associative. This research used secondary data from 2006 Q1 to 2015 Q4 obtained from the related institution which is analyzed by using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method and Vector Autoregerssion (VAR). The results show that interest rate (BI Rate) affect bank loans growth in Indonesia while, bank liquidity and bank capitalization positively affect bank loans growth in Indonesia. It also show that there are causality between interest rate and bank loans growth with inflation rate in Indonesia.