Women's decision-making power in the rural family in Northeastern Thailand
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Piengjit Boonto (2008). Women's decision-making power in the rural family in Northeastern Thailand. Retrieved from: http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/370.
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Women's decision-making power in the rural family in Northeastern Thailand
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The objectives of this study are: (1) to identify the existing pattern of social relationship that relates to the power, roles, and responsibilities of a wife and a husband, in the rural area of Northeastern Thailand and (2) to verify the influencing factors of women’s decision-making in the family. This research utilized the quantitative survey of 449 married women in the rural areas of three provinces including Chaiyaphum, Nong Bue Lumphu, and Ubon Ratcha thani. The survey and interview data was analyzed with two types of statistics being : (1) Descriptive Statistics (Frequency, Percentage, Average, Standard Deviation) and (2) Inferential Statistics that is analysis by employing Multiple Hierarchical Regression Analysis of 5 factors, that includes 12 independent variables in relation with 2 dependent variables of women’s decision-making. The influencing factor variables are: (1) Women empowerment, (2) Family pattern and kinship influence, (3) Socioeconomic resource contribution to marriage, (4) Women opinion of gender role and responsibility of husband and wife in family, and (5) Women’s Characteristics. The above 5 factors are composed of 12 independent variables being the number of education years, number of children, family type, post marital residence, family size, kinship depending, husband’s income generating, wife’s occupation outside household, migration experience before marriage, women’s modernization, women’s participation in empowerment’s projects, and women’s opinion of gender role and responsibility of husband and wife in family. The two dependent variables are (1) Women’s decision-making regarding their own life and (2) Women’s decision making regarding their family life. The results of the analysis based on descriptive statistics showed that the decision-making of wife and husband are of equity pattern. The gender equity of decision-making are family member’s well being, property acquisitions, family’s migration, family investment, child’s education, and level of community development participation. Married women can make their own important decision-making by themselves without consulting their husband, such as using contraception material when having sexual intercourse, keeping control of assets, controlling family expenditure, and the saving of money. The results of hierarchical regression analysis of 5 factors (12 independent variables) and their influence on women’s decision-making regarding the life of living of women and their family member were: 1) The Multiple Hierarchical Regression Analysis of 5 factors has influence the self decision-making of women regarding their own live being. The overall explanative influence (R) on self decision-making of women was 17.2%. Based on the total 12 independent variables, there were 4 variables that had a positive effect on self decision- making of women. The highest positive effect was women’s opinion of gender role and responsibility of husband and wife in family, and lower positive effects were women’s modernization, women’s participation in empowerment project, and migration experience before marriage, respectively. 2) The Multiple Hierarchical Regression Analysis of 5 factors had influence on the self decision-making of women regarding their family live being. The overall explanative influence (R) on self decision-making of women was 5.1%. Based on the total 12 independent variables, there were 2 variables that had a positive effect on family decision-making of women. These two variables were kinship dependence and migration experience before married.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Population and Development))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2008