DETERMINAN PARTISIPASI ANGKATAN KERJA PEREMPUAN DI SUMATERA BARAT

Abstract

Women's participation in the workforce is strongly influenced by social, economic and cultural factors. As a result women LFPRs both overall and based on age groups are very different from time to time, and between countries / regions one with another country / region. Thus, this study aims to explore the determinants of female labor participation in West Sumatra, because the growth of female labor in West Sumatra is quite large, but female labor participation is still low and there is a considerable difference compared to male labor. This research is a quantitative study, which uses the raw data of the National Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS) of West Sumatra Province in 2017. The individual factors used in the information are education, age, area of ​​residence and marital status. The data analysis techniques used are Crosstabulation descriptif analysis and logistic regression analysis.The results showed that overall the probabilistic models of factors that influence female labor participation in West Sumatra Province were estimated by logistic regression models to give good results and empirical behavior towards the variables studied according to the expectations of theoretical behavior when viewed from the suitability of the signs. Adult age affects the level of female labor participation rather than having a young age. The high level of education, women prefer to work. Residence in the village has a higher influence on female labor participation than in the city. Married women tend to help the family economy in the labor market.