Welfare pension fund baht per day for the elderly along the sufficiency economy philosophy in the opinion of Nongchok Credit Union Members Petchaburi Province

Abstract

This research had three objectives. Firstly we want to study the ]merit saving`. Secondly, we will find out how to form welfare pension fund with maximum agreement from its members and finally study problems and strategic planning in managing welfare pension fund. The mixed methodology was applied including the quantitative research of data collected from 401 members and qualitative research The data of which was presented in percentage, average point, standard deviation and mode chi - square (x2 - test) t-test and one-way ANOVA

are applied as a deductive statistic with the significance value at 0.05. Some part of qualitative data were drawn for contextual synthesis

We found out the members with different level of education, amount of monthly deposit and salary yielded different way of understanding to the principle and means of merit saving.

While members of different sex, age, marital status, career, position at the co-operation didngt show different way of understanding the principle and means of merit saving. Most member had a very good opinion toward the principle and means of promoting the process of merit saving. While the overall outcome of the in depth interview and public forum agreed with the one baht a day welfare pension fund. In order to set up an active welfare pension fund, it was agreed with the appointment of 15 members of managing committee of the fund.