Klarifikasi Kemiskinan dengan Metode Cluster Analysis Studi Kasus di Provinsi Jawa Tengah Tahun 2010

Poverty is one of the fundamental problems that become the focus of governments in any country. One important aspect to support poverty reduction strategies is the availability of accurate data on poverty and on target.Purpose of this research is to classify poverty districts / municipalities in Central Java province in 2010 using cluster analysis method based on 35 districts / cities. grouping the results obtained based on the value obtained after the calculation of the linkage method used. before calculating linkage to prior calculation of the distance between districts. so as a result there are 4 groups. Group 4 consisted of no effect, the 3 near-poor, poor group 2, group1 very poor