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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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