Maternal health care in Aceh Province: cluster analysis results

This study aims to establish a group with percentage data of maternal health services in 23 districts / municipalities of Aceh Province. The method used to form groups is by median clustering method. The cluster result of the method will be compared to obtain optimal clusters on maternal health services percentage data. The steps in the cluster analysis are to determine the size of the similarity or inconsistency between data, the process of clustering with the distance matrix and agglomeration schedule, to improve the distance matrix by the median clustering method, to determine the number of clusters and their members, to interpret the cluster result, and to set the grouping boundary to describe characteristics of pregnant women's health services in each cluster. The result obtained is the comparison of standard deviation value, the minimum standard deviation value is owned by 4 clusters. The first cluster: there is 1 district / municipality; the second cluster: there are 9 districts / municipalities; the third cluster: there is 1 district / municipality and in fourth cluster: there are 12 districts / municipalities.