The Differences in Factors that Influence Poverty in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas

Abstract

The study of poverty in Indonesia that specifically takes a review or category of suburban area has not been conducted widely. In fact, when referring to the dimensions that correlate with poverty, various problems related to access to economic resources, social facilities and services, public infrastructure, geographical constraints, and land tenure are actually more common in suburban areas than in the city center. The aims of this study are 1) to determine the spatial zoning in Kendal Regency based on the categories of urban, suburban, and rural areas. 2) identify the variables that affect suburban poverty in Kendal Regency. This study took place in Kendal Regency, which is one of the districts directly adjacent to Semarang City, the capital city of Central Java Province, Indonesia. The unit of analysis in this study is the village, totaling 286 villages. The technique used is K-Means Clustering and linear regression (OLS). The results of the analysis show that the distribution of poverty in Kendal Regency is clustered. In addition, suburban poverty has a different character than poverty in urban and rural areas.