Village Funds for Village Community Welfare (Case Study of Lubuk Raja Village, South Sumatera Province, Indonesia)

Abstract

This study aims to test and analyze the influence of Independent Variables on Village Community Welfare in Lubuk Raja Subdistrict, OKU Regency, South Sumatra Province, Indonesia, both partially and simultaneously. The number of samples determined is 200 households from seven villages in Lubuk Raja Sub-district, OKU Regency, South Sumatera Province, and Multiple Logistic Regression was used to test the possibility of forming a dependent variable that can be predicted from the independent variable. The independent variable is a mixture of continuous (metric) and categorical (non-metric) variables. The Wald test shows that 9 out of 12 independent variables (Infrastructure in the Economic Sector, Village Community Empowerment, Making Village Embung, Repairing Fish Ponds, Purchasing Egg Hatching Machines, Purchasing Animal Feed Chopping Equipment, Purchasing Service Business Equipment, Purchasing Coffee Roaster Machines, and Purchasing Village Water Pumps) have a significant effect, supported by the number of Exp β (Odds Ratio), which shows that all nine variables are likely to improve the welfare of the Lubuk-Raja Village community, Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. The coefficient of determination seen from the Nagelkerke R Square value of 0.843 indicates that the ability of the independent variable to explain the dependent variable is 84.3%. The remainder is explained by exogenous variables of 15.7%.