THE CLUSTERING ANALYSIS OF ASEAN COUNTRIES BASED ON THE PROGRESS OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INDEX

Abstract

The Youth Development Index (YDI) of ASEAN countries is an instrument to give a snapshot picture on the progress of youth development as the strategic imperative for the future. The K-means clustering method is used to grouping the ASEAN countries into three groups with strong similarity within group on youth development progress measured by education, health and wellbeing, employment and opportunity, civic participation, political participation based on data of the last global youth development index and report 2016. The first cluster consists of Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam that has strong performance on youth development progress on education, health and wellbeing, employment and opportunity, but they have the lower index on civic participation. The second cluster consists of Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, and TimorLeste.The third cluster consists of Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia. The second cluster has better youth index on education but has low youth index on civic participation comparing to the third cluster. The third cluster has strong performance on civic participation, but it has the lower index on progress of education, health and wellbeing.The YDI clustering of ASEAN countries is clearly localized the indicators that are sensitive to varied situations across the countries.