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Bangkok |
Central Region
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Northern Region
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Northeasthern
Region
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Southern
Region
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Objectives
The objective of
the census is to count the number of population and
households and collect information on demographic and
socioeconomic characteristics of population as well as
housing chracteristics.
Coverage
Population included in the census coverage
are:
- All Thai
nationals residing in the country as of the census
date, April 1, 2000.
- Persons having
their usual residence in Thailand, but as of the
census date, are away temporarily at field
exercises, at sea or temporarily abroad
- Government
officials, both civilian and military including Thai
diplomatic personnel, and their families stationed
abroad.
- Civilian
nationals of foreign nations having their usual
residence in Thailand of those who had resided in
Thailand for at least three months as of the census
date (before January 1, 2000).
- The housing
census includes all private households
Methodology & Data
Capture
Methodology
The sample
census enumeration technique will be adopted. In
Bangkok and municipal and non-municipal areas, all
persons and households will be listed and
simultaneously enumerated with the short form
questionnaire except for the sample households (20%)
which will be enumerated with the long form
questionnaire.
Data Capture
It is the first
time that an Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
will be introduced for data capture of the population
and housing census.
Topics to
be included
Topics to be included
Identification of household:
- type of area
(municipal and non-municipal)
- census block
- village
number
- household
type (private/collective)
- household
number
- number of
persons in household
- males/females
- language
spoken at home
- short form
or long form
Short form (all
respondents):
- relationship
to head of household
- sex
- age
- month and
year of birth
- religion
- nationality
- level of
school attending
- literacy
- educational
attainment
- marital
status
- occupation
during last year
- industry
during last year
- work status
during last year
Long form (sample
respondents):
(short form and in addition)
- work last
week
- looking for
work and availability to work last week
- reasons for
not working last week
- children
ever born alive
- children
died
- birth last
year
- place of
birth
- length of
residence
- place of
previous residence (province, rural/urban)
- reasons for
migration
Long form (housing):
- type of
living quarter
- characteristic of living quarter
- tenure of
living quarter
- tenure of
land
- fuel used
for cooking
- type of
toilet
- source of
drinking water
- source of
supply water
- household
possessions
Period of data
collection
April 2000
Employment
About 10,000
temporary employees will be recruited.
Number of population in Thailand :
1909-2000 census years
| Census
Year |
Number of
population |
| 1909 |
8,149,487 |
| 1919 |
9,207,355 |
| 1929 |
11,506,207 |
| 1937 |
14,464,105 |
| 1947 |
17,442,689 |
| 1960 |
26,257,916 |
| 1970 |
34,397,374 |
| 1980 |
44,824,540 |
| 1990 |
54,548,530 |
| 2000 |
60,606,947 |
Source: 1. The Survey
of Family Registration 1909, 1919, 1929, 1937 and
1947, Ministry of Interior.
2. Population and
Housing Census 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990, National
Statistical Office,Office of the Prime
Minister.
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More information contact
Email : [email protected]
Address :
Economic and Social statistics Bureau,
National
Statistical Office
Larn Luang, Bangkok 10100
Tel
: 282-5861 Fax : 282-5861
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