Comparing Better Environmental Knowledge Based on Education and Income Using the Odds Ratio

Abstract

This paper to find of existing better environmental knowledge regarding the demography and economics aspect in DKI Jakarta Provinces. First, hypotheses asserting relationship between environmental knowledge, and demographic and economic variables are reviewed by logistics binary regression. Second, based on better environmental knowledge variables significantly are compared to determine the ratio between the categorical at each that variables. The analysis unit is the DKI Jakarta population aged 15 and older in 2013 at Environment Caring Attitude Survey be conducted by Statistics-Indonesia. Social Environmental factors is a weak point of the cause of sustainable development cannot run smoothly, enhance one of the factors that need improvement is environmental knowledge. Condition of environmental knowledge in DKI Jakarta Provinces in alert category, and only the higher education variables and the middle income of the population with good environmental knowledge. using The Odds Ratio methods, it will be known the amount of population comparison that has better environmental knowledge for each variable of higher education or middle income.