Understanding the Resilience of Garment Workers’ Families Through a Mixed-Method Approach: Surviving the Economic Hardship During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03277-5

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The Covid-19 pandemic has exerted enormous economic stressors on garment workers in the form of income decline, furlough, and layoffs, affecting their families. However, research on family resilience among garment workers is limited, particularly in Indonesia. This study examines the factors associated with the resilience of garment workers’ families. We used a complementary mixed-methods approach to analyze data from the 2021 Family and Community Resilience Survey. To enrich the study, we also performed 23 in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions in Bogor and Bandung Regencies. We assess family resilience as their current status in resolving their most disruptive stressor. We fitted a multinomial logistic regression model and assessed the relative variable importance, with socio-economic characteristics, social assistance, and family organizational factors as groups of explanatory variables. Less than half of the families (46.67%) overcame their most significant stressor. Regression analysis shows that wealth index, cash assistance, and role in the family are the three most contributing variables. Qualitative results underscore the importance of economic resources or access to cash assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, reliance on Emok Bank or other informal lenders can create new stressors due to their high-interest rates. This option is common among garment workers, who usually cannot access the government’s assistance as many are migrants. The study emphasizes the need to strengthen formal social protection systems, especially for vulnerable populations like garment workers, to protect them from future crises.

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通过混合方法了解服装工人家庭的抗灾能力：在印度尼西亚 Covid-19 大流行期间渡过经济难关

摘要 "Covid-19 "大流行给制衣工人带来了巨大的经济压力，包括收入下降、休假和裁员，并影响到他们的家庭。然而，有关制衣工人家庭复原力的研究十分有限，尤其是在印度尼西亚。本研究探讨了制衣工人家庭复原力的相关因素。我们采用了一种互补的混合方法来分析 2021 年家庭和社区复原力调查的数据。为了丰富研究内容，我们还在茂物和万隆地区进行了 23 次深度访谈和两次焦点小组讨论。我们将家庭复原力评估为他们在解决最具破坏性的压力源方面的现状。我们将社会经济特征、社会援助和家庭组织因素作为一组解释变量，建立了多项式逻辑回归模型，并评估了变量的相对重要性。只有不到一半的家庭（46.67%）克服了最主要的压力源。回归分析表明，财富指数、现金援助和在家庭中的角色是三个影响最大的变量。定性结果表明，在 Covid-19 大流行期间，经济资源或获得现金援助非常重要。然而，依赖 Emok 银行或其他非正规贷款机构会因高利率而带来新的压力。这种选择在制衣工人中很常见，因为他们中的许多人是移民，通常无法获得政府的援助。研究强调，有必要加强正规的社会保护体系，尤其是针对服装工人等弱势群体，以保护他们免受未来危机的影响。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.