Decision Support System for Choosing Daycare in Surabaya City Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Economic problems led to changes in women's roles where women are choosing to work, so they cannot always be with the children and tend to choose child care in daycare when they are working as a solution. The routines make them lack any information about daycares especially profiles and locations. So parents need an information system that can provide information about daycare and advise the decision. The purpose of this research is to provide a system that gives information of each daycare and daycare recommendations, so that it can be used by parents. In this research, decision-making system was conducted using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is a multi-criteria decision-making method. A recommendation is made by user's rank. The conclusion of this research is that the system is able to provide information and recommendations about daycare and able to meet the needs of parents.