Statistics of Household Income and Expenditure and their Distribution
Statistics of household income and expenditure and their distribution presented in this
chapter were obtained from the National Statistical Office.
The
National Statistical Office collected data on household income and consumption
expenditures in
1957
. Comparable survey known as “The Household Socio-Economic Survey”
was carried out in
1968 - 1969
and was repeated every five years. In
1986
, due to the rapid
economic expansion the National Statistical Office carried out the survey every two years in
order to set the anti- poverty policy. For
1999
and
2001
, National Statistical Office carried out the
special periodic Household Socio-Economic Survey when there was an economic crisis in
Thailand. The objective is to obtain indicators measuring the impact of economic crisis on living
condition of Thai people.
The survey covered all private, non-institutional households residing permanently in
municipal areas and non-municipal areas of all regions. However, it excluded the part of
population living in transient hotels and rooming houses, hostels, boarding schools, temples,
military barracks, prisons, welfare institutes, hospitals and other such institutions. It also excludes
households of foreign diplomats and other temporary residents.
Household expenditures
Total household expenditures are the summation of the amount spent on purchasing
goods and services needed for living essential, the value of goods and services received as
part of pay, home-produced and consumed (including the rental value of owner occupied
dwellings), or received free from other sources, and the amount spent on taxes, contributions,
insurance premiums, lottery tickets, interest on debts, and other non-consumption items.
Consumption expenditures are total household expenditures,excluding non-consumption
expenditures.
