PLACENTUM Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan dan Aplikasinya, Vol 9 (3) Special Issue December, 2021 25 Copyright © 2021, Placentum: Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan dan Aplikasinya, ISSN 2303-3746, e ISSN 2620-9969 The Relationship Between Educational Level of Fertile Age Women and Contraception Knowledge to Prevent the Unwanted Pregnancy in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era Annita Viesta Nirmala Dewi 1* , Nudiya Salwa Syifa Kamila 1 , Siti Nurhidayati 1 Jurusan Kebidanan, Fakultas Kedokteran, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Jl. Ir. Sutami 36 A, Kentingan Surakarta 57126 telp. (0271) 662622 * Corresponding author E-mail: contact.anitaviee@gmail.com ABSTRACT Indonesia has the potential for a baby boom after the COVID-19 pandemic. The cause of this issue is the decline of contraception used by fertile age couples. The decline of contraception used lead to unwanted pregnancies. This study were conducted to find out the relationship about educational level in fertile age women regarding contraception. This cross-sectional study was done in 27 provinces in Indonesia and it was found about 279 fertile age women with different educational backgrounds. The respondents who met the inclusion criteria were married women by 104 people from 19 different provinces. The educational level groupings are intermediate (Middle School and High School), vocational (D1/D2/D3), and higher education (Bachelor/Master). The respondents were asked to answer questions about contraceptives through questionnaires distributed on social media. Next, the data were process by using univariate dan bivariate as well as the chi square test with 24 version of SPSS. The result showed that 53.8% of respondents who have good knowledge about contraception, respondents who have poor knowledge about contraceptives are 46.2%. There is a relationship between educational level of fertile age women and knowledge about contraception (p-value: 0,001), and the unmet need is one of the factors which causes unwanted pregnancies, therefore, the efforts are needed to eliminate unmet need to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Keywords: contraception, fertile age, education, unmet need, women INTRODUCTION The lower middle class people with low educational background are estimated to be the biggest problems to the baby boom that will be experienced by Indonesia since they have a greater risk of having an unwanted pregnancy in the pandemic era compared to the well-educated people. The reasons for the increase in the pregnancy rate are lack of public knowledge and difficult access to health care facilities to do a family planning programs. These cases are supported with a research in Papua New Guinea which discovered that there are 53.6% of women have knowledge to the danger signs of pregnancy from the clinic workers while the remaining 46.4% do not have knowledge because they do not get