FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUCCESS OR FAILED OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT WELFARE CARD POLICY

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were to study; 1) Study of factors influencing the success or failure of the government welfare card policy. 2) The success or failure of the state welfare card policy. 3) Problems and Obstacles in Implementing the welfare card policy. This was a Mixed method Research both qualitative and quantitative research. Key informants are ten people in Kalasin Province with an income of no more than 2,000 baht per month and the purposive sampling technique was used in this process. The sample group was 623 people in the provinces with chronic poverty for more than 5 years, using the Taro Yamane formula and a multi-stage random sampling method. Research tools are interviews form and questionnaire forms. Qualitative data were analyzed by the descriptive method, and quantitative data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested by multiple regression analysis. The results showed that 1) The overall factors influencing the success of the welfare card policy implementation were at high levels (  = 4.21). 2) The success level of the overall implementation of the welfare card policy was a high-level (  = 4.11). 3) Problems and obstacles in implementing the welfare card policy are as follows: Difficulty in registering, travel problems, identity verification problems, communication problems, and the problem of understanding the right to use the card. Environmental factors influenced the success or failure of implementation of the state welfare card policy at a high level with statistical significance at the .05 level.