Results
Table 2 provides summary statistics of the variables included in the analysis.
About 33 percent of the samples were enrolled in school in the last census (2004). There
were more females than males and the mean age of the samples was 15 years. More
than 90 percent of the samples are living in a Thai speaking household. About 14
percent of adolescents were living in a household that received remittance from outmigrants.
The average household size in this study was about 5 people in the household.
The largest proportion of adolescents was living in the urban and semi-urban stratum
(25 percent), followed by the adolescents living in the rice field (22 percent), mixed
economy (22 percent), upland (17 percent), and plantation strata (15 percent).