Page 7 - Statistical Yearbook Thailand 2013

PREFACE
National Statistical Office; NSO, as a central statistical agency, has been playing major roles to
manage and administrate the system of statistics and information of the country, to serve all sectors
statistics and information for being used as guiding light for the country development. Thus NSO has been
publishing “Statistical Yearbook of Thailand” in order to collect and compile major statistics regarding
economic, social and environment. Those statistics were from both censuses and surveys conducted by
NSO as well as from other statistical units of Line Ministries. This publication has been disseminated to all
users, such as government and private sectors, education institutes and general public, including
international organs. These statistical data could be used to guide policy planning and formulation, decision
making, research and as references purposes.
The 2013 Statistical Yearbook consists of two parts of content; the first part is the graphic of
the map of Thailand, basic information and major indicators as an overview. Then the second part
comprises statistical information, in form of statistical tables and charts. The detailed content is divided into
23 statistical sectors. They are Demographic, Population and Housing Statistics, Labour Statistics,
Education, Training, Religious and Culture Statistics including Mass Communication Statistics, Health
Statistics, Social Security Statistics, Gender Statistics, Household Income and Expenditure and their
Distribution Statistics, Other Social, Demographic and Related Statistics, National Accounts, Agricultural,
Forestry and Fishery Statistics, Industrial Statistics, Energy Statistics, Distributive and International Trade
Statistics, Transport Statistics, Communication Statistics including Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) Statistics, Tourism Statistics, Money, Finance, Insurance and Balance of Payment
Statistics, Fiscal Statistics, Price Statistics, Statistics of Science, Technology and Patents, Other Economic
Statistics, Natural Resources and Environment Statistics, Meteorology Statistics.
In addition, all sources were identified in an introductory part of each chapter and in footnotes to
statistical tables for further information.
In this regard, NSO would like to express our gratitude to all government agencies and state
enterprises for their kind support in providing statistical data for this 2011 Statistical Yearbook. We look
forward to your continued cooperation so that all related users can continue to benefit in using statistical
data.