KEMAS 17 (3) (2022) 362-370 Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/kemas Te Factors Afecting the Unmet Need of Family Planning in Banten Province Year 2019 Eneng Emi Saputri1  , Lastri Mei Winarni2, Nuryanti3, Raden Deden Gumilar Nugraha4 123Midwifery Programme of STIKes Yatsi Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia ⁴BKKBN of Banten Province, Indonesia Article Info Article History: Submitted November 2020 Accepted December 2021 Published January 2022 Keywords: Unmeet need, Family Planning, Women in childbearing DOI https://doi.org/10.15294/ kemas.v17i3.27218 Abstract Te result of Program Accountability Performance Survey (SKAP) year 2019 showed that the data of unmet need of Family Planning comprised 13.9%. It was higher than the result of national SKAP year 2019 which was 12.1% and did not achieve the target of the Strategic Plan 2015-2019 which was 9.91%. Te study aimed to investigate the factors afecting the unmet need of Family Planning in Banten Province year 2019. Te research method used was quantitative approach with Cross-Sectional research design. Te popu- lation consisted of all women of childbearing age who did not apply Family Planning listed in SKAP of National Department of Demography and Family Planning (BKKBN) of Banten Province year 2019. Te number of samples was 343 respondents. Te sam- pling technique used was total population. Te data collection was done using secondary data obtained from the data in SKAP of BKKBN of Banten Province year 2019. Te data analysis implemented was univariate, bivariate using chi square, and multivariate using Multiple Logistic Regression Test. Te unmet need of Family Planning on the women of childbearing age was 14.0%. Most age of the respondents that was ≥ mean 37.78 years old was found in 182 (53.1%) respondents, married status in 341 (99.1%) respondents, mid- dle family income in 185 (53.9%) respondents, rural residential area in 197 (57.4%) re- spondents, high-level knowledge ≥ mean 7.10 in 196 (57.1%) respondents. Te result of bivariate analysis showed that age had efect on unmet need of Family Planning (p value = 0.000). Te variable of marital status, family income, residential area, and knowledge had no efect on unmet need of Family Planning. Te dominant factor afecting unmet need of Family Planning was age (p value = 0.000; OR = 6.397).  Correspondence Address: Midwifery Programme of STIKes Yatsi Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. Email : miesaputri@yahoo.co.id pISSN 1858-1196 eISSN 2355-3596 decrease maternal and infant death and also it can helps improvement in maternal and child health (Asif & Pervaiz, 2019; Misnaniarti & Ayuningtyas, 2016). One of the obstacles in the implementation of Family Planning program is the unmet need of Family Planning on women of childbearing age. Te decrease of the unmet need of Family Planning is one of the national development goals in National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2015-2019. Unmet need is an estimation of size and composition of women’s population whom their contraceptive needs is not fulflled. Women with unmet need for family planning include fecund women who do not use any kind of contraceptive but Introduction Cases of maternal death that keeps increasing from year to year can be prevented by implementing Family Planning Program, especially for mothers with 4T conditions, namely too young when giving birth (younger than 20 years old), too ofen giving birth, too close interval of giving birth, too old when giving birth (older than 35 years old). Family Planning is an efort which is useful to plan the number of family members by limiting that can be done using contraception such as condoms, spiral, Intra Uterine Devices (IUD), and so on (Sahasrabuddhe et al., 2018). Family planning is also one of national priority programme to