Abstract
Welfare in West Sumatra Province is still an important problem that is being faced by the government and also the whole community in 2021. The government is still trying to improve performance the welfare of the community from all aspects. It is necessary to grouping the level of community welfare in the Province of West Sumatra by Regency/City using the average linkage and ward methods. The results of the cluster analysis obtained by both methods show that the clusters formed are the same. Consists of 3 clusters, namely cluster 1 with a low level of welfare, cluster 2 with a medium level of welfare and cluster 3 with a high level of welfare. Of the two methods, the average linkage method is better in grouping the levels of welfare based on validity because it has a large Dunn Index value and a small Connectivity value compared to the ward method.
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