Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between the demographic social-economic as well as environmental characteristic of household heads and their opinions toward the settlement of industrial factories in their neighborhood. Data using for this analysis were drawn from the Phechaburi project in 1995 conducted by College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. The sampled household heads used in this analysis were 868 in total. Related concepts and theories were taken to be the guideline of this study and the conceptual model has been set. The interesting results emerged from this study was a majority of household heads had the optimistic opimistic opinions on the settlement of industrial factories in their neighborhood especially those who were in the low income group. Data suggested that there were the relationship between the set of independent and dependent variables. However, the differences in the level of such relationship were depended upon the difference of the set of variables. The results of Chi-square test confirmed that occupation, education, income, rural or urban residence, participation in the environmental recovering project and coastal land or hinterland had significant relationship with household heads' opinions toward the settlement of industrial factories in their neighborhood.