Assessing Farmers’ Ability to Use Smartphone to Support Household Accounting Applications
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This research aimed to: 1) study the current problems of household accounting: 2) survey the readiness of knowledge and abilities in using Smartphone and: 3) explore the problems and difficulties of household accounting. The sample included the region farmers from Pathum Thani, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Chachoengsao and Nakhon Pathom. The convenience sampling was used to recruit the sample from the farmers who were customers of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives. The quota sampling was employed to recruit 400 households consisting of 100 households from each province. The statistics used in the research were descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Chi-Square Tests and ANOVA were applied to test the research hypothesis. The results were as follows. 1) 56.8 percent of the sample did household accounts, 51.2 percent of the sample used account books prepared by themselves. 2) 59.8 of the farmers had Smartphone. 51.3 percent of the farmers could use Line and Facebook Application. Their abilities to use mobile phone were average and they wanted to have an application to record household accounts. 3) The first three problems and difficulties in doing household accounts were lack of accounting knowledge, being unable to recognize daily spending and lack of assistance from the government. The results of hypothesis testing showed that: 1) age was associated with an ability to use a mobile phone at the significance level of 0.049 and: 2) education background related to the problems in doing household accounts, lack of continuous training and the inconsistent training were at the significance levels of 0.046 and 0.010, respectively.
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