Contraceptive Use in a Changing Service Environment: Evidence from the First Year of Indonesia’s Economic Crisis
Since the 1970s many developing countries have launched large-scale efforts to provide couples with family planning services.
Contraceptive Use in a Changing Service Environment: Evidence from the First Year of Indonesia’s Economic Crisis
Since the 1970s many developing countries have launched large-scale efforts to provide couples with family planning services.
Health, Family Planning and Well-being in Indonesia during an Economic Crisis: Early results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey
The results reported in this paper are preliminary. This study is based on data from two rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS2/2+), a project of RAND, in collaboration with UCLA and the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia. We are grateful to William Emmett, the POLICY Project, who supported the broader project in its early stages.
Nutritional Status in Indonesia: Evidence from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey
The authors use data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to examine patterns of height and weight among Indonesians of all ages. The heights attained by adults have increased dramatically over the last half century.
Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) 2005-2010
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Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) is a longitudinal survey of some 40,000 individuals across 10,000 households in the tsunami-affected areas of Aceh and in nearby inland Aceh and the province of North Sumatra. These individuals were living in households from which data were collected in February 2004, as a part of the cross-sectional SUSENAS.
In the baseline survey, informants reported on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of themselves and other household members. The first follow up interview was conducted in 2005-06. Individual and household data were collected, drawing on and augmenting the STAR0 questionnaire. A large community-level survey was also conducted by interviewing village leaders and through visits to local schools and health facilities.
The study has three main goals. First, STAR provides uniquely rich longitudinal data for individuals and households exposed to disaster, a valuable resource for measuring consequences of the disaster for mortality, family disruption/relocation, and mental health. Second, STAR is intended to assess the extent of reconstruction in the aftermath of the disaster, paying particular attention to the roles of aid, kinship, and social networks. Third, STAR will identify characteristics of individuals, households, communities and facilities that were more resilient to the disaster.
Tracking respondents is a challenge to any longitudinal survey, but particularly challenging in the wake of disaster. Nearly all respondents have been tracked in follow-up surveys, including many who were displaced after the disaster. While the majority of movers remained in Aceh and North Sumatra; SurveyMETER tracked movers across Sumatra and Java. An overall re-contact rate of over 90% has been maintained throughout. The most recent follow-up was completed in 2010, with the next anticipated in 2011.(SM)
School Based Management Study (SBM) 2010
The objectives of the School Based Management (SBM) Study, funded by the RAND Corporation were the provision of a comprehensive analytical foundation of the status of school-based management in Indonesia, and to explore further methods of expanding and strengthening SBM for improving service delivery and outcomes.
Data for the study were collected from a national representative sample of 400 primary schools, 54 junior high schools, and 54 districts and sub-districts.(SM)
Teacher Certification Study (BERMUTU) 2009
The Better Education through Reformed Management and Universal Teacher Upgrading Project (BERMUTU), funded by a World Bank loan, supports the implementation of the Teacher Law by targeting teacher quality. As part of the project, the Government of Indonesia’s Ministry of National Education investigated the impact of teacher certification on teacher performance and learning outcomes at the primary and junior secondary level.
Minimum Service Standard (MSS) Costing Survey 2009
School data collection involved interviews with the principal and two teachers from the school, inspection of documents and a walk around the school to assess the physical condition. Again, some objective data are relatively straightforward to collect (e.g., number of toilets for boys and girls) but some data require a professional judgment to be made (e.g., Is the school safe and clean?). Many of the items in the questionnaire require provision of a document or record (e.g., the school curriculum plan).
Local Government Capacity Survey (LGC) 2009
The European Commission and the Royal Government of the Netherlands, through the World Bank as the Trustee of the Trust Fund, have jointly established the Basic Education Capacity Trust Fund Program (BEC-TF) with the purpose of supporting the Government of Indonesia in improving the delivery of decentralized basic education. The BEC-TF is also intended to lay the groundwork and conditions to be met for a major sector-wide investment program.
Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Baseline Survey 2008-2009
Acknowledging the need to improve household targeting for anti-poverty programs, the Ministry of Planning (BAPPENAS) requested that the World Bank provide technical assistance in exploring ways to devise a better targeting system. The research was a collaborative effort between the World Bank Office Jakarta (WBOJ), the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), and academic researchers affiliated with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).