Factors Related to the Behavior of Financial Discipline of Informal Workers in Bangkok

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Thanwarat Suwanna
Mongkolchai Jamroon

Abstract

The purpose of this research were as follows: (1) to study financial discipline of informal workers in Bangkok (2) to study factors related with the behavior of financial discipline of informal workers in Bangkok. The samples used in the research were number of 402 informal workers in Bangkok. This research instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics were percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis.


The research result revealed that


1. Informal workers have financial discipline include, saving discipline is a constant savings, and spending disciplineis a cost-effective plan for spending. Saving discipline, spending discipline and financial discipline were moderate.


2. The Personal factors are related to the financial discipline of informal workers, The number of dependents. income per month, Expenses per month And monthly liabilities at statistically significant level .05

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Suwanna, T., & Jamroon, M. (2018). Factors Related to the Behavior of Financial Discipline of Informal Workers in Bangkok. Ph.D. In Social Sciences Journal, 8(S), 187–199. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/phdssj/article/view/135840
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