Abstract:
The objectives of this research were 1) to study the level of decision to buy football courses of parents in Bangkok. 2) to compare the decision of parents to buy football courses in Bangkok classified by personal factors such as gender, age, occupation, monthly income and education level. 3) to study the marketing mix factors affecting the decision to buy football courses of parents in Bangkok such as product factors, price factors, place distribution factors, promotion factors, people factors, physical evidence factors and process factors. The sample group in the research was the parents who take their children to study football in Bangkok that is obtained from the formula to calculate the number of samples. The research instruments were the questionnaire analyzed data using various methods such as checking the questionnaire, record data, test hypothesis, the descriptive statistics such as percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and the inferential statistics such as t-test, one-way ANOVA at significant level of .01 and LSD analysis. The results showed that
1) The level of decision to buy football courses of parents in Bangkok was at the highest level.
2) Parents in Bangkok who take their children to football courses are mostly female, older than 40 years to 50 years old, the education in bachelor degree, a professional company employees and have an average monthly income of more than 50,000 baht.
3) Product factors, Process factors and people factors are affecting the decision to buy football courses of parents in Bangkok at the statistical significance level of .01 and price factors are affecting the decision to buy football courses of parents in Bangkok at the statistical significance level of .05 All 7 independent variables could explain the variation of the decision to buy football course of parents in Bangkok at 34.7 percent.