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Indonesia is a developing country with a high population increase. The increasing population situation makes it difficult to improve and equalize people's welfare. The higher the population growth, the greater the efforts made to maintain people's welfare. One strategy to reduce the birth rate is through the use of contraception. However, there are several factors that influence the choice of contraception, including level of knowledge, age, birth spacing and parity and postpartum counseling. So this research aims to explain the analysis of factors that influence the choice of type of contraception in couples of childbearing age at Batara Siang Regional Hospital. Research Design: The type of research is quantitative descriptive correlation with a cross sectional design. The population in this study was all family planning acceptors at Batara Siang Regional Hospital in April 2020. The research sample was 47 couples of childbearing age at Batara Siang Regional Hospital using an accidental sampling technique. The results of the research show that the p value obtained from the Wald test for the age variable is 0.039, which means there is a relationship between age in choosing a contraceptive method. This relationship is statistically significant (OR= 11.139; p = 0.039), the education variable shows that the p value obtained from the Wald test for the education variable is 0.014, which means there is a relationship between education and the choice of long-term contraceptive methods. Conclusion: There is a significant influence between age and education and the choice of type of contraception in couples of childbearing age at Batara Siang Regional Hospital.   

Exclusive breastfeeding in the world is only around 38 percent. When compared with the WHO target of reaching 50%, this figure is still far from the target. There are several factors that influence exclusive breastfeeding, namely knowledge, education, work. This has led to the assumption that breast milk cannot meet the needs of babies, working mothers whose workplaces do not have facilities to store expressed breast milk or who do not facilitate regulations for workers to express breast milk. In fact, breast milk is the best living fluid that babies really need, which contains various substances that are important for the baby's growth and development and suit their needs. So the aim of this research is to find out the factors that influence mothers in providing exclusive breastfeeding in Anrong Appaka Village, Kab. Pangkep. This research is an observational analytical study with a cross sectional approach. The research population was mothers who had babies aged 6-22 months in Anrong Appaka Village, Kab. Pangkep. The sample consisted of 32 people. This research uses a data collection tool in the form of a questionnaire. The research results show that there is a significant relationship between work, education and exclusive breastfeeding. The conclusion is that the job characteristics of the majority of respondents are not working. The majority of respondents have higher education. Bivariate test results There is a significant relationship between employment, education and exclusive breastfeeding.

Financial distress is a financial condition of a company that is in a state of crisis. The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of liquidity, leverage, operating capacity, profitability, and firm growth on financial distress. The population of this study is manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017-2018 with the sampling technique using porposive sampling or criteria. Based on the technique, obtained sample of 112 companies. The results of this study indicate that liquidity and profitability has a significant effect on the financial distress of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange. Meanwhile, leverage, operating capacity, and firm growth have no effect on the financial distress of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange.

This  research  analyzes  the  effect  of   Working  Capital  Turnover,  Growth,  Size  and  Liquidity  on  Profitability  (Study  at  Manufacture  Companies  listed  on  the  Indonesia  Stock  Exchange  for  the  2016-2018  period).  There  are  population  of  143  Manufacture  Companies  listed  on  the   Indonesia  Stock  Exchange.  The  sample  selection  method  uses  purposive  sampling  which  is  based  on  predetermined  criteria,  then  obtained  total  sample  are  44  manufacture  companies  during  2016-2018  period. The  analytical  tool  use  is  multiple  linear  regression  .  The  results  this  research  show  that  working  capital  turnover  and  growth  have not  effect  on  profitability,  while  size  and  liquidity  have effect on profitability.  Keywords : Working  Capital  Turnover,  Growth,  Size,  Liquidity,  Profitability