The Role of Fishermen's Wives in Increasing Family Income ( Case Study of Guraping Village, North Oba District, Tidore Islands )

Abstract

This study aims to (1) find out how the role of fishermen's wives in increasing family income, (2) find out how the contribution of fishermen's wives' incomes (3) what factors affect the role of fishermen's wives in increasing family income, using multiple linear regression with primary data . The number of samples is 44. The location is Guraping Village, North Oba District, Tidore Archipelago City. The results of this study are the role of fishermen's wives in increasing family income is to work as civil servants, fish sellers, food sellers, stalls, cleaning services, and sago makers (North Maluku specialties), the contribution of fishermen's wives to family income is Rp. 25,520,000 or 51.52%, the factors that affect the income of fishermen's wives are education with a significance level of 0.002 and work time with a significance level of 0.000 While the age factor has a significance level of 0.624 and the number of family dependents with a significance level of 0.816 then it has no effect on the income level of the fishermen's wives.