PREFACE
National Statistical Office; NSO, as a central statistical agency, has been authorized to manage
and administrate statistical matters of the country, as well as been the centre of standard statistical data, for
the availability for result-based management. Thus NSO has been publishing “Statistical Yearbook of
Thailand” in order to collect and compile major statistics of the country 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
2008
Statistical Yearbook consists of two parts of content;
the first part
is the graphic of
the map of Thailand, basic information of Thailand and major indicators to draw attention of the users to
give them an overview. Then
the second part
comprises statistical information, in form of statistical
tables and charts. For the users’ ease of reference, the detailed content is divided into
23
statistical sectors.
They are Demographic, Population and Housing Statistics, Labor Statistics, Education, Training, Religious
and Culture Statistics Including Mass Communication Statistics, Health Statistics, Social Security Statistics,
Gender Statistics, Statistics of Household Income and Expenditure and their Distribution, 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 to give the users for further details.
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
2008
Statistical Yearbook. We look
forward to your continued cooperation so that all related users can continue to benefit in using statistical
data.
