PERCEIVED IMPACT OF THE POPULATION ON THE KHLONG THAI PROJECT

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to conduct the analysis of the needs of the Klong Thai Excavation in the five southern provinces involved in the operation.  2) to study the impact on various areas of the Klong Thai Excavation Project in the five southern provinces by collecting questionnaires from people, measured by educational level, occupation, income and residential area. The sample group used in the research was people domiciled in 5 southern provinces, namely Krabi, Phatthalung, Songkhla, Trang and Nakhon Si Thammarat.  The sample size in each province was 200 samples, totaling 1,000 samples. The researcher used questionnaires for collecting and quantitative data. The results of the research found that the study of the perceived impact of the population on the Klong Thai excavation and various impacts on the Klong Thai project operation area in the five southern provinces were 1) The cognitive factor had the highest Beta coefficient or equal to 0.1909, followed by 2) Income variables 3) Age variables and 4) Environmental factors, respectively. All of them were statistically significant at a level of 0.01. Moreover, 5) Social factors and 6) The economic factor was statistically significant at the 0.05 level and the R square value of 0.078, with statistical significance at the 0.01 level. This showed that the independent variables had 7.8% influence on project demand assessment.