Adolescent Birth Rate: Between Women Participation in Parliament or Women Population with Secondary Education

Abstract

This study is constructed to find causal relation between women's participation in parliament (X1) and the women population with secondary education (X2) toward adolescence birth rate in the world. The data was taken from UNDP Gender Inequality Index. This research used a quantitative method with an explanatory design in which the researchers try to see how two independent variables affect the dependent variable using multilinear regression. The finding shows that X1 generates positive causal inference while X2 creates negative causal reference toward the dependent variable with 0.009547 and -0.730165. It means that based on the hypothesis testing using multiple linear regression, it is revealed that the first hypothesis is rejected, and the competing hypothesis is accepted. By means that the involvement of women in parliament is not significantly affected in reducing the adolescent birth rate yet the higher population in secondary education is proven statistically significant in causing a lower adolescent birth rate in the world.