Abstract:
The purpose of this independent study was to study the relationship of factors relating to the demographic aspect, attitudes, and e-business behavior. The group of samples used in the study was a number of 400 people in Ayutthaya, with the use of descriptive statistics covering percentage, analytical mean, quantitative statistics and hypothesis tests using Chi-square.
The results of the independent study revealed that in the demographic aspect, respondents to the questionnaires were both males and females in nearly the same number. Most were less than 25 years old, married, holding a bachelors degree with an average income of 10,001 to 15,000 baht per month. In terms of their attitudes, most of the respondents had understanding about savings, its importance, and the control of savings in each month. They were eager and realized the importance of savings, thinking savings was not a difficult issue. On the e-business behavior, the number of respondents using credit cards was nearly equal to the number of respondents not using credit cards. The same pattern was applied to the number of respondents paying credit card bills and the number who did not, and also the respondents buying goods via the Internet and those who did not. Most of the respondents did not use credit cards on workdays, but used them on holidays. Neither they use internet mobile banking nor transfer money nor pay bills via such a service. They did not ask friends to do e-business on their behalf, but did it by themselves. The reason they were using e-business was that the service was convenient and cheaper.
The results of hypothesis tests revealed there was a relationship between demography and savings behavior in terms of sex, age, education and income. The same result was also found in the relationship between attitudes and savings behavior in terms of knowledge and understanding about savings, and in the relationship between e-business behavior and saving behavior in terms of credit cards, transactions, and usage.