Efforts to enhance active cooperatives in Indonesia based on macroeconomic variables
Abstract
Cooperative is a group of people that allow several people or legal
entity working together on a basic of voluntary held a job to improve the lives
of its members (Sagimun, 2005). The purpose of this study is to look at the
effect of macroeconomic variables, namely the level of income per capita,
unemployment rate, education level, poverty level, average expenditure per
capita and human development index of 33 provinces in Indonesia to the
number of active cooperatives in every province in Indonesia. In addition, this
study uses the sample data from every province in Indonesia with the time span
from 2006 to 2013. This study uses a quantitative approach using Multiple
Regression through SPSS 16. The results of this study can be utilised by the
government, especially the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, public and
non-governmental organisations in a joint effort to increase Indonesian
cooperatives in facing the internationalisation