Personal Characteristics and Administrative Factors Affecting the Household Waste Management in Sibunruang District Nongbua Lamphu Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study personal characteristics and administrative factors affecting the household waste management in Si Bun Rueang district, Nong Bua Lam Phu province, Thailand. A set of 265 household representatives randomly selected by stratified random sampling technique from 27,266 of households. Data was collected by the questionnaire for the quantitative data, which was examined and verified by the three experts for content validity. All items had an objective congruence (IOC), greater than 0.50, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for reliability was 0.90. The in-depth interview guidelines were used for gathering the qualitative data from 12 key informants. Data was collected between 2^nd and 21^st March 2023. Data analysis was performed by using descriptive and inferential statistics at a significant level of 0.05.

The results showed representative age was between 51-60 years old. That the overall level of administrative factors was at a moderate level, with average of 2.22 (S.D.=0.48), and the household waste management was at a high level, with average of 2.38 (S.D.=0.40). Age and overall administrative factors had a statistically significant inverse low and positive moderate relationship with the household waste management (r=-0.271, p-value<0.001 and r=0.557, p-value<0.001), respectively. The results found that three variables consisted of two variables of administrative factors: time and management, and one variable of personal characteristics: age, which affected and could jointly predicted the household waste management in Si Bun Rueang district, Nong Bua Lam Phu province at 36.0 percentage (R²= 0.360, p-value<0.001).