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 includes
consumption expenditure
which consisted of 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 and from other sources and
non-consumption expenditure
which
consisted of 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.
Household expenditures exclude the capital formation expenditures such as purchase or
hirepurchase of house and land, purchase of jewelry, savings-life insurance premiums, and provident
funds etc.
Household income
Total household incomes includes
current income
which consisted of wages and salaries,
tips, bonuses, etc.; net profits from farming and non-farming business; property incomes such as
