THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POPULATION GROWTH ON THE POVERTY RATE IN SIMALUNGUN REGENCY

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of economic growth and population growth on the poverty rate in Simalungun Regency. This study uses quantitative methods and by collecting data through the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) office and processing using the SPSS Version 26 application. From the results of the calculation of SPSS version 26 above, it can show that the independent variable affects the dependent variable with an F-table value of 3.89 and an F-count value of 92.931 with a significant 0.00 smaller than the significant level used in this study which is 0.05 (0.00 <0.05). This shows that the independent variable has a significant effect on the dependent variable. Thus, it can be concluded that the above test rejects hypothesis H_0 and accepts H_1.