Religion
information is obtained from Office of National Buddhism, Office of the Prime Minister.
Thai people have right and to choose their religions. Religion is closely related to culture. Religion
is a spiritual milestone of whole population. In addition, religion has important role to play in promoting good
deeds of the people and living with ethic and morality. The major role of religious advocates is to provide
guidance and advice to children to learn of principles of religion.
Cultural:
Prosperous culture represents unique features, namely: religion, language, literary, art,
handicraft, dramatic art, music and custom. All these features are inherited from the past until today. The
national culture has been developed from time to time. The question as to sustainability, uniqueness and
adaptibility to changing conditions would depend on social conditions, entire population regardless of sexes
and ages.
Copyright
is recorded/registered by a person who initiates and creates original work to own it by
legal. Copyrights statistical were obtained from the information of Department of Intellectual Property,
Ministry of Commerce in literary work, dramatic work, artistic work, musical work, audiovisual work,
cinematographic work, sound recording, broadcasting work and computer program.
Statistics on Needs for Human Resource Development and Competency:
National
Statistical Office has conducted the Survey on the Needs for Human Resource Development and
Competency, the first time in
1995
, then since
2001
this survey has been conducted annually. This survey
presented data regarding the needs for human resource development and competency of people in and out
of the labor force, needs for courses/curriculum, including needs of unemployed people from the
Government.
Statistics on behavior in listening to the radio and watching Television:
National
Statistical Office has firstly conducted in
1979.
In order to comply with the user’ needs, the title of survey
has been changed into the “Survey on Media (Radio and Television)” started in
2008.
Its coverage was
members, of private house holds, aged
6
years and over. Excluding was special households and institutional
households and households of foreigners working in the embassies or international organizations.
Statistics
on
Reading
; National Statistical Office has started conducting this kind of survey in
2003
to obtain the data for country development and promoting reading behavior to Thai population, as
well as for monitoring and evaluation of related programs.
Reading refers to reading all kinds of books out of study time and working hours, including reading
via electronic media, i.e. internet, CD except SMS and E-mail.
