Knowledge and Understanding in Democracy of the Youths in Bangkok

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the level of knowledge and understanding in democracy of the youths in Bangkok according to gender, age, education level, family incomes, occupation of the parents, interesting level in political news and the participation in political activity. This research is a survey research. The sample groups are the 2,500 youths who live in Bangkok metropolis persons from 50 districts by accidental sampling. Questionnaire is used as a tool in data collection. The statistics are means of percentage, frequency, arithmetic means, standard deviation, and Chi-square. The results are as the following: most of The have knowledge and understanding level in democracy at a moderate level. The factors affecting the knowledge and understanding which a statistical significance at .05 are age, education level, family incomes, occupation of parents, interesting level in political, and participation in political activity.