Another ABAC Poll

From the Bangkok Post, an ABAC poll indicates that:

68.8 per cent of those polled would no longer say confidently that Thai society was peaceful.

65.1 per cent told the poll they could not confirm that Thais loved one another.

51.7 per cent even admitted they were hesitant to say that Thai people were kind and helpful to each other. This came as a surprise as it contradicts a long-held belief in Thai society that we are united, love one another and are helpful.

64 per cent were no longer sure that "senior people" still had compassion.

60.6 per cent refused to condemn a corrupt government.

I wasn’t really surprised about points 2 and 3.

I also browsed their website to read who the people conducting these surveys are. According to the website, the unit consists of 90-100 people with over 1000 people around the country assisting them. Project heads have also received Masters and PhD degrees from various fields like statistics, economics, information technology, survey methodology, psychology, business administration and so forth.

More from the website, the methodologies they use include conceptual framework, questionnaire design, pre-testing methods (e.g. think aloud, probing, test-retest), data collection methods (e.g. face-to-face interview, mail survey, phone survey, web survey), sampling methods (e.g. SRS, systematic, stratified sampling, stratified cluster sampling, area sampling), and complex survey data analyses (e.g. t-test, ANOVA, Chi-square, Wald statistics, Odd Ratio, Logistic Regression Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, design effect (DEFF), statistical weighting).

The website is available in English so you can read more about it here.