Abstract
Adolescent fertility is an important issue in terms of health and social care due to its relation to morbidity and mortality of mothers and children. The 2017 IDHS provided data regarding the percentage of women aged 15-19 who already became mothers or pregnant with their first child according to background characteristics. The 2017 IDHS results showed 7 percent of women aged 15-19 were mothers: 5 percent had given birth and 2 percent were pregnant with their first child. This study used a quantitative secondary data analysis approach. The secondary data used were the results of the Central Java IDHS 2017. The population of this study was all adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in Central Java. The unit analysis in the study were women of childbearing age which were 15-19 years from the analysis unit of Central Java IDHS in 2017 with a total sample of 4,560 respondents. From the results of the study, we noted that factors related to adolescent fertility in Central Java were age, education, use of contraception, marital status, status of living with a partner, and practice of sexual relations. Factors which were not related to adolescent fertility in Central Java were occupation, wealth, type of residential area, insurance ownership, duration of abstinence, partner's age, partner's level of education, and partner's occupation.
Highlights
The results of the 2017 IndonesianDemographic and Health Survey (IDHS) provided data regarding the percentage of women aged 15-19 years who became mothers or pregnant with their first child according to background characteristics
Adolescent fertility is an important issue in terms of health and social care due to its relation to morbidity and mortality of mothers and children
The 2017 IndonesianDemographic and Health Survey (IDHS) provided data regarding the percentage of women aged 15-19 who already became mothers or pregnant with their first child according to background characteristics
Summary
Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) provided data regarding the percentage of women aged 15-19 years who became mothers or pregnant with their first child according to background characteristics. The 2017 IDHS results showed that 7 percent of women ages 15-19 were mothers: 5 percent had given birth and 2 percent were pregnant with their first child. The 2012 IDHS results showed an increase in adolescent fertility, the percentage of female adolescents aged 15-19 who had given birth and became pregnant with their first child was 10%. The dependent variable in this study was the incidence of adolescent fertility, including whether adolescents had given birth or were pregnant with their first child. Fertility was defined as the ability to produce offspring which was associated with female fertility Another notion of fertility was the ability of a wife to become pregnant and give birth to a living child by a husband who was able to impregnate her.
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