RESULTS
General characteristics of street vendors
Table 1 summarizes the general characteristics of
street vendors at both sites. A total of 109 street
vendors participated in the study, 77 from the
roadside and 32 from the residential area. They
sold prepared food, snacks, beverages, accessories
and cosmetics, flowers, cloth, footwear repairing
services, stationary and magazines, etc. The
street vendors who sold cooked food and Thai
snacks needed to use liquefied petroleum gas and
charcoal (for BBQ grills, for example) as fuel for
cooking at their stand. The average age of street
vendors was 33.4 ± 9 and 31.9 ± 8.1 years for the
roadside area and residential area, respectively.
Approximately 40% of street vendors in both groups
had an education at the primary school level or lower