| Summary: | One reason why Indonesian nation to this day still continues to struggle
with population problems was caused by lack of public awareness about
population problem start from the nation's elite up to family level. Lack of
awareness is a result from lack of public knowledge about the condition of
Indonesian population at this time, so it is necessary to solve the population
problem with a mode that form a mindset, attitudes, and behavior of people who
are sensitive and responsive to the population problem. One mode considered as
the most effective to establish the pattern and behavior is through population
education.
This study aims to determine the level of adolescent knowledge about
population education and factors that influence adolescent knowledge about
population education. The study was conducted on 200 adolescent in 5
districts/cities in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Data collection is carried out by
using a questionnaire and analyzed statistically using the chi-square test and
binary logistic regression at α = 5 %.
The analysis showed that 60 percent of adolescent in Daerah Istimewa
Yogyakarta has a low level of knowledge about population education, there are
differences level of adolescent knowledge about population education in 5
district/cities in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, and factors that significantly
influence the level of adolescent knowledge about population education is the
education level (significance 0.002) and access to mass media (significance
0.008).
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