Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study the level of civic participation in the local development of Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality, Phanthong district, Chonburi province, and to study the comparison between the different personal factors of the citizens and their participation in the local development of Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality, Phanthong district, Chonburi province. The sample group was 393 citizens who were 18 years old or over in Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality. The research instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Then, the research hypotheses were tested by inferential statistics including T-Test and One-way ANOVA with a statistical significance of 0.05. LST was also adopted to analyze the pair comparison test and the result was found as follows. 1. The civic participation in the local development of Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality, Phanthong district, Chonburi province was overall at a medium level. When considering each aspect in descending order of average, it was found that civic participation in the aspect of accepting benefits received the highest level. The other aspects were the decision-making aspect, the operation aspect, and the assessment aspect, respectively. 2. The citizens with different genders and incomes did not show different levels of participation in the local development of Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality, Phanthong district, Chonburi province. However, the citizens with different ages, levels of education, careers, length of time staying in the village/community, and roles in the village/community had different levels of participation in the local development of Nong Tamlueng subdistrict municipality, Phanthong district, Chonburi province with a statistical significance of .05.