Thailand's Community Development Department (CDD) data set is collected by Rural Development Committee (RDC) at the village level. The data collected can be broadly broken up into one of the four groups listed below:

1. General Conditions
2. General Economic Conditions
3. Education and Health
4. Labor and Miscellaneous

BACKGROUND

     CDD Overview - The Community Development Dept is a section with the Thai Ministry of the Interior. It is responsible for the health and well being of Thai citizens. It was decided in the mid-70s under a National Economic Plan to do a comprehensive assessment of every village in Thailand, in order to be able to target government resources more effectively. To that end the headman in every village and local CDD officials answer a series of questions concerning household characteristics, education, health and sanitation, the environment, and other categories. Ratings by categories are then assigned to each village. This results in a village census and the CDD data.

COLLECTION AND PROCESSING NOTES

     Thailand's Community Development Department (CDD) data set is collected by Rural Development Committee (RDC) at the village level. Originally, the survey was conducted every 5 years; from 1986-1996 the survey was conducted bi-annually; thereafter the survey has been conducted annually.

The data are collected in 2 steps. In the first step, members of the RDC fill in the questionaire by themselves using the existing data from the Tambon office. After that, for each village, a meeting with the village headman and village committee is held. The missing information are then collected at that time.