The Integrity and Transparency Assessment of Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Local Administrative Organizations of the Fiscal Year 2017

Abstract

The research study on the “Nakhon Si Thammarat Integrity and Transparency Assessment in the Year 2017” aimed to 1) study the NST’s Local Administrative Organizations Integrity and Transparency Assessment. 2) Study and find the suggestions for the improvement and development of the NST’s Local Administrative Organizations. 3) Study and provide the suggestions to help prevent the anti-corruption for both the policy maker and the practitioner. The study used two research methodologies : 1) Document Research from the Evidence-Based Integrity and Transparency Assessment (EBIT) 2) Sample Survey Research from the respondents of the Internal Integrity and Transparency Assessment (IIT) of the Local Administrative Organizations Officials aged one year or over of work experiences for 7,627 people. EIT was used for the service respondents/stakeholders of NST’s Local Administrative Organizations for 18,500 people. EBIT for the NST’s Local Administrative Organizations for 1 set of copy. The alterations of the score data were made into quantity score. The balanced-weight rate score from the three research instruments analysized the Integrity and Transparency Assessment score. The interpretation of the Integrity and Transparency Assessment score was made into levels according to the criteria and analysized the score level into indexes.  

          The study indicated that the NST’s Local Administrative Organizations Integrity and Transparency Assessment score earned 75.75% with high Integrity and Transparency. The Accountability earned highest score 85.32%, the Corruption-Free Index earned 83.44%, the Work Integrity Index 72.81%, the Transparency Index 72.02% and the Culture Integrity Index 63.80% respectively.