ABSTRACT

The main purposes of this research were to study the levels of  participation of people in the community development of  Bang  Mun  Nak  municipality and to compare the participation of people in the community development of Bang Mun Nak municipality, classified by personal factors and to study the problems and obstacles of  participation of people in the community development of Bang  Mun  Nak  municipality.

The survey research was used for this study. The sample of this research consisted of 383 persons selected by multistage random sampling. The questionnaire was used as the tool for data collection.

Data analysis was conducted by the statistical software program for social science research. Statistics used in the analysis consisted of frequency, mean, percentage and standard deviation (S.D.)

The analysis was also done through t-test for analysis the hypotheses in order to test the average difference between the two groups and f-test (One-way ANOVA) for testing the difference between the averages from three or more groups. The significant difference was noted at .05 level.

The results of the research are as follows :

1. The overall participation of people in the community development of  Bang  Mun  Nak municipality, Bang Mun Nak district,  Phichit province is in moderate level. When considering in each aspect, it was found that in moderate level at all aspects such as planning community development, operational community development, monitoring and evaluation.

2. The comparison participation of people in the community development of  Bang  Mun   Nak municipality, Bang Mun Nak district, Phichit  Province, classified by personal factors are sex, age, status, level of education, career and income per month. The results of hypothesis test are found that the factors that make the participation of people in the community development of  Bang  Mun Nak municipality as a whole were found statistically significant different at .01 level, it accepted the formulated hypotheses such as age, status and level of education and the factors that make the participation of people in the community development of  Bang  Mun  Nak municipality as a whole were not found different, it rejected the formulated hypotheses such as  sex, career and income per month

3. The problems and obstacles of participation of people in the community development of Bang  Mun Nak municipality. It was found that people do not have knowledge, understanding and an importance about the participation in the community development. The people do not cooperate together Moreover, The people do not know information, have no time, a lack of motivation, a lack of publicity and a lack of funds for implementation about participation in community development and The people think that these are the duties of the municipal agencies.