Thursday, April 30, 2009

Analisis Indikator Kelaparan pada Keluarga Nelayan

Ikeu Tanziha

Abstract. The objective of the study was to analyze indicator of hunger.
The study design was a crosectional study. Research conducted in
Cirebon Districts (Grogol and Mertasinga vilage) in July-Augustus 2007.
A systematic stratified random sampling was applied to select 110
households. The data collected include socio economic, perception on
hunger, food expenditure and semi food frequency. Qualitatively, a person
is categorized as hunger, if his/her daily meal portion and/or meal
frequency decrease, along with body weight loss. The t-test and Mann-
Whitney test were applied to analyse mean difference of socioeconomic,
demographic and food intake variables between hungers and not hunger
groups. Discriminant analysis was used to analyze indicators of hunger.
The results showed that there are mean difference of knowlegde of
nutrition, household expenditure percapita, and expenditure for staple
food, between hunger and non-hunger groups. Based on the discriminant
analysis, main indicators of hunger in this study area is staple food
expenditure ratio. A Person was categorized as hunger if his or her
staple food expenditure ratio >23 %
Keywords: hunger, qualitative measure, food frequency and
socio economic

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