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Analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic position and public services provision. An inter-village analysis of the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Amoah, Grace Angela (2010) Analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic position and public services provision. An inter-village analysis of the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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| Abstract: | In the provision of health care and education, certain aspects are mostly overlooked. These aspects include the non-inclusion of the spatial component in the distribution of public services, the non-use of aggregate level indicators (since the coverage of services go beyond households) and the fewer number of studies on the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and the provision of public services. This study therefore sought to identify a spatial approach to analyse if the socioeconomic position of an area has any association with the provision of public services. In order to achieve this objective, the study first assessed the level of provision of health care and education. The socioeconomic position of villages was also assessed. The study finally analysed the relationship between the socioeconomic position of the villages and the level of health care and education. The study analysed the variations among villages in the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The study was exclusively on secondary data. Use was made of an extensive dataset from the population census 2000 and some aspects of that of 1993 and 1996 censuses. Statistical and spatial techniques were used in the analyses. Indicators of health care and education as well as SEP were analysed with a combination of correlations and descriptive statistics. Indices were developed for analysing health care provision across the province and SEP with the use of principal component analysis (PCA). The results showed that the provision of health care in terms of the number of persons sharing a health facility was low for all the villages within the city of Yogyakarta as compared to other municipalities. The city however has many specialist hospitals, maternity hospitals, polyclinics, etc and may therefore not necessarily have low capacity or insufficient health facilities. The congested nature of health facilities in the villages within the city may also be attributed to the assumption of equal capacity of health facilities which may not be so in real life. Villages having more people per health centers were realized to be within 4km of these facilities whereas those with fewer people were farther away. Villages with lower levels of health care provision were spatially clustered. From the dataset, asset and welfare related indicators showed more variation. Villages in the eastern and western parts were mostly of lower SEPs. These villages also showed some amount of spatial clustering. Upon relating SEP and provision of health care, the villages of lower SEPs were seen to be far from health facilities as compared to those villages of higher SEPs. This was attributed to the less dense population in those villages. On the other hand, the number of people per primary school was less for the lower SEPs. The higher socioeconomic positions had more people per primary school. The study realises that areas of higher socioeconomic position and the lower socioeconomic positions encounter variations in terms of services provision. Interventions are necessary to ameliorate this situation. Keywords: Equity, socioeconomic position, health care provision, education provision, spatial analysis. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90763 |
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