Research Report No.28 
Population Value of Migrational Women 
by 
Penkhae Prachonpachanuk 1983 
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 Purposes of the Study 
       The purposes of the study were as follows : 
       1.  To investigate the relationship between migration and value on population. 
       2.  To compare the relationship between the way of life and the value of migrational women. 
       3.  To  find  out  the  model of rural women migrantion, return migrantion and mass migration. 
        Sample    The  sample  was  drawn  from 135 women living at the Klongtoey slum who was on employed and unemployed woman. 

 Methodlogy 
       The  value  questionnaire  was  an  open-ended  types.  It  was conducted based on three parts, 20 items. 
       The  data  obtained  were  categorized  and  put  into  tables. Comparisons  were  made between working and non-working women for each items. Invovating and conservative types of migration were identified. 

 Main findings 
       The  results revealed that the most women migrants had positive on  econmic  status  in Bangkok. Economic reasons were most frequently stated  concerning  place  of  settlement. The working women were more satisfaction on Bangkok environment than non-working women. 
       As  to  the  number  of  children, and of women migrants had an average  of  about 2-3 children. Everthough nearly all of the migrants knew  about  family  planning  and birth control from various sources, most   notably  from  hospitals,  newspapers  and  radios.  Most  were satisfied  with  the  number  and  sex  of the children they had. Thus rural  women  migrants  findings  revealed that did not really want to  have a large family as traditionally expected of rural people.   Women migrants  had  have conservative migration by economic factors and did not  want  to return migration. But some non- working woman had tended to  move again. Women migrants had the model of mass migration to move with their family and relative. 



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