Townsend Thai Project Household Annual Resurvey, 2004 [limited version]

(*NOTE: This is a limited version that includes only the four provinces: Chacheongsao, Buriram, Lopburi, and Srisakate. ) The project is carried out in Thailand under the direction of Khun Sombat Sakuntasathhien and dedicated staff. The project is administered in the United States at the National Opinion Research Center and the University of Chicago. Survey design and research collaborators include Anna Paulson of Northwestern University, Tae Joeng Lee of Yonse University, and Michael Binford of the University of Florida. Robert M. Townsend is overall project director and principal investigator. The initial purpose of the NICHD-NSF funded project was to evaluate the role of informal institutions such as the family and local networks in helping to support the welfare and well-being of individuals in semi-urban and rural areas of Thailand. Risk, and the potentially adverse and direct consequences of household- and firm-specific shocks is a key part of project. The mediating role of the family and social and economic networks in the mobilization of savings and allocation of cred it was also deemed essential. These networks are not viewed in isolation but rather are part of the larger village, regional, and national level financial system. Thus the project includes an evaluation of village-level financial institutions, such as Production Credit Groups and rice banks, and national-level financial institutions such as commercial banks and the government agricultural bank, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC). Indeed, the project has both micro and macro aspects. It seeks to evaluate informal and formal financial institutions and markets and to construct and evaluate macro models of growth, fluctuations, and crisis. The macro models are based on the measured micro- underpinnings. Household Resampling. Every effort is made to resurvey previously interviewed households. In l998 we successfully reinterviewed 95.32% of the l997 target, previously- surveyed population. In l999 w e resurveyd 97% of the l997 target. Most of the attrition is to due to the household having moved out of the village, though a handful have refused to be interviewed, and a third cause is death of the head. If in any year we are short of the target 15 households per village, we include random replacements, for the purpose of constructing village average variables, for example.(*注：本版本为限定版本，仅覆盖差春骚府（Chacheongsao）、武里南府（Buriram）、华富里府（Lopburi）以及沙缴府（Srisakate）。) 本项目由松巴特·沙昆塔席恩先生（Khun Sombat Sakuntasathhien）及其专属团队在泰国主持开展，美方管理机构为美国全国民意研究中心（National Opinion Research Center）与芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）。本项目的调研设计与合作研究者包括西北大学（Northwestern University）的安娜·保尔森（Anna Paulson）、延世大学（Yonsei University）的李泰正（Tae Joeng Lee）以及佛罗里达大学（University of Florida）的迈克尔·宾福德（Michael Binford）。罗伯特·M·汤森（Robert M. Townsend）担任项目总负责人与首席研究员。 本项目由美国儿童健康与人类发展研究所-国家科学基金会（NICHD-NSF）资助，初始研究目标为评估家庭、地方网络等非正式制度在助力泰国半城市化与农村地区个体维持福利与福祉方面的作用。风险因素以及家庭与企业层面特定冲击所引发的潜在负面直接后果，是本项目的核心研究内容之一。此外，家庭与社会经济网络在储蓄动员与信贷配置中的中介作用也被视为关键研究环节。 上述网络并非孤立存在，而是隶属于更大范围的村庄、区域乃至国家级金融体系。因此本项目同时涵盖村级金融机构（如生产信贷小组（Production Credit Groups）与稻米银行（rice banks））以及国家级金融机构（如商业银行及政府农业信贷机构——农业与农业合作社银行（Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives, BAAC））的评估工作。 本项目兼具微观与宏观研究维度：既旨在评估非正式与正式金融机构及市场，也致力于构建并评估基于微观实证基础的增长、波动与危机宏观模型。 家庭重访机制。本项目尽全力对已受访家庭进行回访。1998年，我们成功回访了1997年受访目标群体的95.32%；1999年，我们回访了1997年受访目标群体的97%。样本流失的主要原因是家庭迁出本村，少数情况为拒绝受访，第三大原因为户主去世。若某一年度某村庄的受访家庭数量低于目标值15户，我们将随机补充新样本，以保障村庄层面平均变量等统计指标的构建有效性。