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

in the lower-part of the table. Thus, for example, having estimated that 42% of
farm households live on state land or private land that they do not own, a large
proportion of farm operators are classified as landless in the sense that they do not

own a significant amount of private land registered by the Department of Lands.
We also assume that some 2% of farm operators are substantial landowners. 17
The remaining 56% of farmers are classified as owner-occupiers.

Apart from farm owner-occupiers, the largest numbers of households
cross-classified by work status and household group are middle-income, owner-
occupier proprietors (10.5%), low-income, inactive owner-occupiers (8.6%),
landless farmers (8.5%) and landless sales and service workers (7.0%).
The next Table 6 reproduces additional data on home ownership from
SES Table 19.

Table 6 Home ownership and house types in 2015

Home ownership House type
Socio-economic Owns Owns Rents or Row Apart-
class home home on occupies Detached house ment Other
and rented house or twin
land land rent free house or flat
Farm operators

Farming own land 98 1 1 99 1 0 0
Farming rented land 85 13 2 99 0 0 0

Forestry / fishing 88 6 6 98 2 0 0
Other proprietors 69 5 26 66 30 3 1
Employees
Professional/ 74 3 23 62 30 8 0
technical
Farm workers 77 5 18 91 9 0 1

17 See: Duangmanee Laowakul 'Concentration of land and other wealth in Thailand' in Phongpaichit
and Baker ed., 2016. Unequal Thailand: aspects of wealth, income and power, NUS Press, Singapore.
In 2012 landowners with 50 rai or more of titled land (chanod) accounted for 1% of the total
number of persons with registered title (Table 2.3 p.35) or perhaps 0.5% of all households.

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