Characters and the Various Needs of Out-of-School Children in Thailand
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The study aimed to explore out-of-school children’s characteristics and analyze their needs for support, goals for education and careers. Voluntary sampling technique was used to select 35,003 out-of-school children in Thailand. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and correspondence analysis, whlist qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis and presented in word cloud. The research results revealed that the most of out-of-school children graduated at lower than grade 9. Moreover, 10% of samples had never been in the school. More than 50% of them had not identification documents. The most important factor that caused them to be out-of-school children was family poverty. Results from correspondence analysis showed that children had different education and career goals classified into 3 groups, 1) no goal 2) need to continue study, and 3) no need to continue study. The results from the study reflected that the education support strategies or policies should be designed based on out-of-school children needs in each group
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