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Household Socio-Economic Survey 1999

Thailand, 1999
Reference ID
THA_1999_SES_v01_M
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National Statistical Office
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Nov 21, 2011
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Socio-economic class (a06)

Data file: ses42_1

Overview

Valid: 7789
Valid: 159338989996
Invalid: 0
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 72
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 19
End: 20
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

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Categories
Value Category
1 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - Less than 2 rai
2 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - 2 to 4 rai
3 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - 5 to 9 rai
4 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - 10 to 19 rai
5 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - 20 to 39 rai
6 Farm Operator Owning Land Primarily - 40 rai or more
11 Farm Operator Renting Land Primarily - Less than 5 rai
12 Farm Operator Renting Land Primarily - 5 to 19 rai
13 Farm Operator Renting Land Primarily - 20 rai or more
19 Fishing, Forestry, etc.
21 Entrepreneurs, Trade and Industry - With Paid Workers
22 Entrepreneurs, Trade and Industry - Without Paid Workers
31 Professional, Technical and Managerial - Working on Own Account
32 Professional, Technical and Managerial - Employed by Others
41 Labourers - Farm Workers
42 Labourers - General Workers
50 Other Employees - Clerical, Sales and Service Workers
60 Other Employees - Production and Construction Workers
71 Economically Inactive - Receiving Asssistance or Pensions
72 Economically Inactive - Receiving Property Income
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
The classification of households into socio-economic groups was based on the main source of livelihood, employment status, kind of economic activity and occupation. This classification divided households into 9 major classes which are:

(1) farm operators mainly owning land,
(2) farm operators mainly renting land,
(3) own-account workers non-farm businesses,
(4) professional, technical and administrative workers who worked for pay
(5) farm workers
(6) general workers
(7) clerical, sales and service workers
(8) production workers, and
(9) economically inactive households

In general, the household class was based on the principal source of livelihood and employment status of the chief income receiver, usually the household head. However, if the combined earnings of several members of the household represented the main source of livelihood, the classification was determined on the basis of the employment status of those members. For example, if a household operated a small farm but the earnings of the household members working off the farm as common labourers exceeded farm profits (including the value of home-produced and consumed products), the household was classified in the general worker group.
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