Abstract:
This research aimed to study the important factors affecting the decision-making for Isan food consumption in the marketing mix of consumers in Thonburi district and compare the important factors affecting the decision-making for Isan food consumption in the marketing mix of consumers in Thonburi district divided by general status. The samples in this study were 405 consumers and collected data with questionnaires. Statistics used for analyzing the data consisted of frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, t-test, F test (One-way ANOVA), and tested in case of significant difference at .05 and .01 level by Fishers LSD procedure.
The results revealed that mosts of samples are female, aged between 20-30 years old, being single, having Bachelor degree, student status, and having monthly income 10,001-20,000 Baht/month.
From the study, the important factors found that the most of consumers focus on marketing mix, in overall, was in a high level. Considering each part found that parts of product, price, place, people, process, physical appearance, and product and quality, were at a high level, whereas a part of promotion was in a moderate level.
From hypothesis testing found that the consumers with different gender, age, marital status, education level, gave an opinion for factors of marketing mix in every part as a non-significant. But the consumers who had a different occupation gave an opinion for factors of marketing mix: part of promotion and people in a statistically significant difference at .05 level and the consumers who had a different monthly income gave an opinion for factors of marketing mix: part of people in a statistical by significant difference at .05 level.