Research Report No.22 
Thai Children's Civic Awareness 
by 
Sawana Pornpatkul 1977

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The purposes of this research were to study the level of civic  awareness of the sample, to compare it between those who studied  schools in and outside Bangkok Metropolis and also to compare it  according to sex, age, grade level, and level of parents' education. Stratified random sampling was used resulting in 1511 subjects of  middle economic status Civic awareness questionnaire had a reliability  of 0.676. Description of indices, chi-square and correlation were  used to analyze the data. It was found that Thai children civic awareness was generally low. Only economic awareness was higher than 50%. Awareness of morality,  political trend of the government were about middle level. There were  significant differences in various aspects of civic awareness as to  sex, age, grade level, level of parents' education, and school location. 

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