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The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
Volume XII, 2020

Socio-economic classes, household groups, land ownership and value

To examine the present-day distribution of land ownership and wealth
we now attempt to estimate land use, area and value by different groups of
households (see Table 5). This analysis relies on a breakdown of home ownership
and house types occupied by different socio-economic classes reported in

Table 19 of the 2015 Socio-Economic Survey (SES) and evidence on work status
of the adult population in Table 7 of the 2017 first-quarter Labour Force Survey
(LFS).
Here we distinguish the following household groups:

1) owner-occupiers: households occupying and using their own land
(land with registered title)

- farm households (2.6 million)

- home owners: farm workers, other employed, self-employed or
inactive (12.1 million) divided into low and higher income groups
of roughly equal size

2) landless: households with homes on land which they do not own,
whether rented or rent-free (8.4 million)
3) landowners: households owning substantial property that they do
not occupy or use themselves (0.2 million)

Table 5 Household groups

Owner occupiers Other
Household All Non- Non-farm
groups households Farmers farm low middle Landless 1 Land
income income owners

Per cent 100.0 11.3 25.1 26.7 36.0 0.9

No of 23.386 2.636 5.879 6.234 8.417 0.221
households
(millions)

Work status (% of adults) percentage in each household group

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