Unmet Need Incidence within Family Planning Program: A Basic Policy to Decrease Population Fertility in Central Java Province.

The government of Indonesia has been promoted Family Planning Program (FPP) to control the population growth, as it increases every year; however, in its implementation, unmet need is still to be found, including in Central Java Province. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors causing the incidence of the unmet need in Central Java Province using explanatory research with qualitative (in-depth) and quantitative approaches. The sample was women of childbearing age (15-49 years) with a total sample of 2,281 respondents. The secondary data were obtained from Indonesian Demography and Health Survey (IDHS) 2017. The result showed that there was a relationship between age (p = 0.0005), number of children (p = 0.029), decision making (p = 0.0001), as well as side effects (p = 0.0001) and the unmet need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]