Factors influencing the success and failure of the implementation of the government welfare card policy

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were to study: 1) Factors influencing the success or failure of the government welfare card policy. 2) The success or failure of the state welfare card policy. 3) Problems and obstacles in implementing the welfare card policy. This was a mixed method research, using both qualitative and quantitative research. Key informants were ten people in Kalasin Province with an income of no more than 2,000 baht per month and a purposive sampling technique was used in this process. The sample group was 623 people in those provinces with chronic poverty for more than 5 years, using the Taro Yamane formula and a multistage random sampling method. Research tools included interview forms and questionnaire forms. Qualitative data were analyzed using a descriptive method, and quantitative data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested by multiple regression analysis. The results showed that: 1) The overall factors influencing the success of the welfare card policy implementation were at high levels (x ̅= 4.21). 2) The success level of the overall implementation of the welfare card policy was at a high-level (x ̅= 4.11). 3) Problems and obstacles in implementing the welfare card policy are as follows: Difficulty in registering, travel problems, identity verification problems, communication problems, and a problem in understanding the right to use the card. Environmental factors influenced the success or failure of implementation of the state welfare card policy at a high level, with statistical significance at the .05 level.