Spearman’s rank correlation analysis on public perception toward health partnership projects between Indonesia and Australia in East Nusa Tenggara Province

Abstract

The mean of this paper is to analyze community perceptions towards implementation and impacts on the health partnership projects between the government of Indonesia and Australia in East Nusa Tenggara (ENT) province by employing Spearman rank correlation analysis. The paper processes both primary and secondary data taken from Public Hospitals, Health Department and the public community of the three districts (Ngada, East Flores and North Central Timor) in the ENT region. There were 225 respondents selected using purposive sampling method. The result shows that most people in the area preceived positively on the projects implementation and impacts on the community. More than 80% people believe that the health partnership projects were important for the community particularly for the maternal and neonatal health. The analysis employing a Spearman Rank coefficient shows strong connection between the implementation and impacts of the projects with the value of (rs) = 0.554. The analysis was also carried out through different stakeholders with the value of (rs) were 0.605 and 0. 460 for public community and hospital staff respectively. These indicate that the positive preception on project implementation relates strongly to the positive preception on the impact of the program.