Determination of Poverty At The District/City Level in Yogyakarta Province 2007-2018

Abstract

Poverty is a thing that occurs in all countries both developing countries and developed countries, and one of them is in Indonesia. Special Region of Yogyakarta is ranked first as the region with the highest poverty rate in Java. This study aims to analyze the effect of regional gross domestic product, population, health and unemployment rate on poverty in Special Region of Yogyakarta. The analytical method used is panel data regression with the Fixed Effect Model (FEM) approach. The data usage is time series data for 12 years (2007-2018) and cross section data of 5 districts / cities in the Province of Special Region of Yogyakarta. The results of this study indicate that the population and health variables have a positive and significant effect on the number of poor people in the Province of D.I. Yogyakarta. GRDP variable has a negative and significant effect on the number of poor population in the Province of D.I. Yogyakarta, while the unemployment rate variable has a negative and not significant effect on the number of poor people in the Province of D.I. Yogyakarta.