Title:
THE ECONOMIC AND HEALTH FACTOR ON HAPPINESS INDEX OF INDONESIAN CITIZENS

Authors:
Sirilius Seran and Ernestina Lika

Abstract:
People who live with poverty lack resources to fulfill their basic needs such as food, clothing, education and health care. On average, their monthly expenses would not exceed the standard poverty line. The quality of education and healthcare can be measured by the Mean Years School (MYS) and Public Health Development Index (PHDI). Poverty, MYS and PHDI play a part in the Human Development Index (HDI) which in turn will affect the Happiness Index (HI). The main discussion in this journal is whether poverty, MYS and PHDI has any influence on the Happiness index of the Indonesian people. This study uses secondary data from 33 provinces and the National data of 2018 that was retrieved from Statistics Indonesia, in conjunction with path analysis as the analysis tool of choice. Research results reflect that based on the regression coefficient value (r) the four independent variables have simultaneous relationships with IKb of 0.534 and the determinant coefficient value (R-Square) of 0.286. Though this relationship is not Significant (0.198) to the IKb. Partially, only poverty has a negative relationship that is not Significant (0.038) to IKb with the parameter coefficient value of - 5.273.

Keywords:
Poverty, Education, Health, Happiness

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2022.5605