Aging, Youth, Fertility, and Gender Perspectives in Sustainable Development: Findings from Indonesia Family Life Surveys in 2007

Background and Objectives: The study examined the socio-demographic correlates of: general health status of elderly persons (aged 60 and above) and fertility background of mothers of children aged 0-14 in Indonesia. Specifically, the focus was on the associations between the two components of age dependency ratios (old and young populations), fertility (total children ever born), gender, and wealth status. Discussion included a summary of studies on potential environmental degradation.
Methods: The primary data source for the study was the 2007/8 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), a longitudinal survey that collected a wealth of information at the individual, household, and community levels. The 2007/8 survey revisited previous IFLS baseline households (1993 IFLS). Two multivariate logistic regression models were used to examine associations with selected independent variables: Model 1 examined the likelihood of elderly people having any body pain (physical constraints) in the preceding six months and Model 2 examined the likelihood of girls/boys 0-14 years old having a mother with 3 or more children ever born. The independent variables for Model 1 were: gender, age, education, marital status and wealth index. For Model 2, they were: gender, mother’s age, mother’s education and wealth index