Correlation between Age and Community Hygiene at Jodipan Tourism Village and Blue Arema Village, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

Malang City has quite new tourist destinations, namely Jodipan Tourism Village and Blue Arema Village. The two tourist destinations were originally slums area which were built in accordance with the regional structuring program of Malang City Goverment. The existence of the village provided a number of changes for the community, that need to be studied is the hygiene of the community in the two villages. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between age and community hygiene at Jodipan Tourism Village and Blue Arema Village. The research method used was quantitative descriptive by giving questionnaires to 23 people at Jodipan Tourism Village and also 25 people at Blue Arema Village. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation if the data were normal or Spearman correlation if the data were not normal. The results showed that age and community hygiene at Jodipan Tourism Village were not normally distributed with p = 0.403 > α = 0.05, which means there was no correlation between age and community hygiene at Jodipan Tourism Village. While the data of age and community hygiene in Blue Arema Village were normally distributed with p = 0.840 > α = 0.05, which means there was no correlation between age and community hygiene in Blue Arema Village. Thus, it can be concluded that there was no correlation between age and community hygiene in Jodipan Tourism Village and Blue Arema Village.