OTONOMI PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN PEREMPUAN MENIKAH DAN STATUS PENGGUNAAN KONTRASEPSI

Abstract

Gender inequality is often cited as a barrier to improving women’s sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including contraceptive use. Indonesia is ranked at 85th place out of the 153 countries in Global Gender Gap Report 2020, which indicates gender inequality. Although positive increases in women's participation in the economy, health and education have been shown since 2014. Keeping in view this fact, we investigated the impact of women’s decision-making autonomy on contraceptive use among married women age 15–49 years in Indonesia. Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2014 data has been used for analysis by ordered logistic regression. Women’s participation in making four household decisions: food purchases, household purchases; freedom to visit family and relatives and contraceptive use have been used as women’s decision-making autonomy. The results indicated that women’s decision-making autonomy has been positively associated with contraceptive use. Women’s age, job status, education level, number of children, domicile status, internet access, and household wealth status also been found statistically significantly associated with contraceptive use. The current study suggests integrating the interventions for women’s decision-making autonomy into family planning programs.