Public participation in the sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization, Watthana Nakorn District, Sa Kaeo Province
Abstract:
The purpose of this research was 1) to study the level of public participation in the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization, 2) to study the administrative factors affecting the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization and 3) to study the relation between the administrative factors and public participation in the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization. The population was the 5,955 Nong Mak Fai residents and the sample consisted of 375 respondents, who were selected by cluster sampling technique. The research tool was a questionnaire with a reliability of 0.907. The analysis statistics were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and hypothesis tests were done using One-way ANOVA with Sheffe and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results revealed that: 1) The peoples participation in the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization was, overall, at a high level. The highest level was for the making decisions, aspect, followed by the beneficit receiving, practice and evaluation aspects. 2) The administrative factors that influenced the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization were, overall, at a high level. The highest level was for the environment aspect, followed by the rewards, peoples needs and leader support aspects. 3) The relation between the administrative factors and the participation of the people in the Sub-district development plan initiation of Nong Mak Fai Sub-district Administrative Organization was positive at the level of significance of 0.01.