Abstract:
Improving the quality of human resources through education is one of the government's focuses in realizing the Indonesian golden generation and is one of the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals. This can be realized starting from early childhood development. The application of parenting to early childhood greatly affects the growth and development of children in the future. Therefore, a study was conducted to analyze the characteristics of parenting patterns for early childhood in Indonesia using the hierarchical cluster method. The hierarchical cluster method used is Single Linkage, Complete Linkage, Average Linkage, and Ward. The cluster results from the four methods were compared for each number of clusters to determine the best cluster result based on the Pseudo-F value and icd rate. The results showed that the Average Linkage method with 5 clusters was the best cluster result. This shows that 5 regional groups have different characteristics of parenting patterns for early childhood. Each of these regional groups has different characteristics in terms of the activities parents do with their children. Thus, parents can apply the ideal parenting pattern for early childhood according to the characteristics of their respective regions to produce a young generation that excels in the future.
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