Brief report of the survey in Tak FY 2021
Satoko BABA(Iwate University, Japan)
satokob220@hotmail.com

1.BackgroundThe study was conducted as part of a study of Thailand's ICT environment and learning disparities
between immigrant and poor children. Our research team wants to know what the home environment
is for immigrant children from Burma and how much online teaching materials are used in eachhome. However, in 2021, it was not possible to go directly to the site to investigate.
Therefore, we conducted a survey with the research cooperation of the Burmese Migrant Workers'Education Committee (BMWEC), which has been involved in the education support of theimmigrant community for many years.
Survey period: Jan 2022 – Mar 2022
Place: Tak Province
2. Research Method
Firstly, we send the questionnaire (Google form) to BMWEC. BMWEC conducted a survey using aquestionnaire created by our research team for parents with children in grades 5 and 6 (around 10years old), and collected data from 80 people. The specific survey method is as follows.
All survey data was saved in Excel file format.

Fig 1. Image of Interview
13. Basic information of respondents
Female/MaleFemale

68

Male

12Total80

Relationothers1

แม่（but male）

2

พ่อ（but female）

1brother1

head of household

6spouse2father6mother

61

Total

80

number of children
in a family

123

4

5

67

8

912Total

1221

17

127

4

3

1

2

180

The majority of respondents are “mother”, “30-49 years old” and have 2 or 3 children in a family.
education level of parents

Until 2015, in the basic education system inno education

18Myanmar,

until P4

45compulsory. It lasts five years (Kindergarten anduntil P65Grade 1 to 4). In Thailand, Primary education lasts

until junior high school

66 years.I guess, those who studied until P4 studied

until senior high school

6in Myanmar, and those who studied until P6 studied

Total

80

in Thailand.

2

Primaryeducation

isofficially4. Migrant learning center and their cost
Name of Learning CenterChampion

5Hlee Bee8

Hsa Mu Gaw (?)

1

Hsa Mu Htaw

15

Hsa Tu Gaw

21

Kwe Ka Baung

17

Morning Glory (2)5Nya Li Ah Hta

8Total80

KWE KHA BAUNG, Hsa Tu Gaw, HSA MU HTAW, HLEE BEE, Morning Glory 2 andCHAMPION are located in Mae sot. NYA LI AH TA is located in Maeramat.
Education budget
1000B

61000B/month（2 children）

11000B/year

11000B/year （2 childlren）

3100B/month

21200B

11500B/year

11500B/year（3 children）

12000B/year

12000B/year（4 children）

3200B/month12500B/year（5 children）

1300B

6300B/year

1350B/year

1400B

14400B (2 children)

1500B

12500B/year

14500B/year （1 child）

2600B

13600B（2 children）

3600B（3 children）

1600B/year （2 children）

16900B/year （3 children）

1750B

1No payment

11500B（no payment now）

1Total80*These red mean “500B, per year, for 1 child”.
5.Household
Totally, 12 out of 80 answered “Father is not working” and 10 are “no income from father”.
38 out of 80 answered “Mother is not working” and 41 are “no income from mother”.
5-1. Monthly income and occupation (father)
108
64comments;⚫

Don't have often income

1⚫

Don't have usual income

1⚫

his child support him

1⚫

His Son and Daughter Support him

1⚫

No working but his son and daughter support him14no work

No working but…

His Son and…

20000

11000

10500

no answer

his child support…

independent business

9000

8000

7500

7000

6500

6000

5000

4500

4000

3500

3000

2550

2500

2000

civil servant/national company

Don't have usual…

others

1500

1000

0

0

Don't have often…

2worker

5-2. Monthly income and occupation (mother)
40
30
20
100

othershousekeeping

civil servant/national company

independent businessno answer

no work

workercomments;⚫

Don't have often income

1⚫

Don't have usual income1⚫

her children support her

1⚫

Her Son and Daughter Support her

1

In particular, more than half of the women were unemployed, so we asked BMWEC the reason.
After I conducted meeting with my BMWEC Team, we founded out that there were somereasons that there were many mother (women) who were (unemployed) in this data. And we
divided women or mothers in to three groups as below.
1. Some of the women or mothers had job or work before COVID-19 happen and they stayed
have some job or work currently.
2. Some of the women or mothers had work before the COVID-19 happened, However, when
the COVID-19 happened and affected many factors and including health and economic, someof the parents have less opportunity of the job and some parents were losing their job.
3. Some of the women or mothers, they don't have job and they don't work. They depended on
their husband income and take care of their baby or children at home and do the house works.
Remark: Before the COVID-19 happened, the women or mothers who have work, they haveusually income but when the COVID-19 happened, they have less job opportunities and they
have less income.
For example, "Work for hire" - Before COVID-19 happened, there were many "work for hire"available for both men and women in the Mae Sot area. However, when the COVID-19
happened, there were not many works for hire available. Therefore, many of the women andmany mothers were unemployed in these data.

56. Daily Life with their children
These questions were asked to understand the child's daily environment and parent-child relationships.
The answers show that about half of parents do not have time to spend their leisure time with theirchildren, but more than three-quarters take time to teach homework. It was also revealed that the motheris mainly in charge of teaching homework, and the father and brother/sister are about the same proportion.
6-1. How long do you spend for watching TV with your children?
025

1-20 min.

621-40 min

841-60 min

192 hours

14

more than3 hours

8

Total

80

6-2. How long do you spend for sports with your children?
040

1-20 min.

721-40 min.

1241-60 min.

92 hours

6

more than 3 hours

6

Total

80

6-3. How long do you spend for teaching the homework of your children?
行ラベル
016

1-20 min.

1121-40 min.

1341-60 min.

28

2 hours

12

Total

80

6

6-4. Who does teach the homework for your children in your family?
nobody15

others3

brother/sister11

father11

father/others

1father, bro./sis.

1

father, mother3

mother32

mother, bro./sis.

3

Total

80

7. Parenting style
The following questions are about how you want your child to grow up or what you expect from yourchild. Nearly half of parents found it important for their children to enjoy school. In addition, more than
90% of parents say that it is important for their children to think for themselves.
No.4-6 questions are related to the study with ICT technology. Interestingly, even though more than
90% of parents want to teach at school using computers and tablets, "computers promote children's
understanding" and "electronic-based" The percentage of parents who think that their homework helps
their children's understanding has dropped from 60% to 70%.
Do you agree this idea?
7-1. If your child enjoys school life, you don't care about your child's grades.
I don't agree so much

16

I agree41

I don't agree

16

I agree very much

7

Total807-2. Make your child think and learn for themselves.
I don't agree so much

7I agree49

I agree very much

24Total80

77-3. Try to give your child the opportunity to experience a foreign language and culture.
I don't agree so much

18I agree

54

I don't agree

1

I agree very much

7

Total

80

7-4. I want you to teach at school using a computer or tablet.
I don't agree so much

5

I agree58

I don't agree

1

I agree very much

16

Total

80

7-5. Children can understand the contents well by using a computer or tablet while studying.

I don't agree so much

20I agree

50

I don't agree

6I agree very much

4Total80

7-6. I think electronic-based homework will help children better understand the content.
I don't agree so much

20

I agree48

I don't agree

11I agree very much

1Total8088.Relationship between parents' educational background and the level of education

required of their children
Our research team is collecting survey data from other regions now and will hold a meeting on whichdata to analyze in May or June. However, one of my research interests is the theme of "therelationship between parents' educational background and the level of education required of theirchildren." Therefore, a cross-tabulation analysis was performed on these two data.
Education level of parents

Education level requiredof their children

no education

P4

P6

M6

1

3

ปวช（poo woo choo）

2

1

ปวส（poo woo soo）

Bachelor degree

M3

M6

Total

1

5
1

1

1
10

Master degree

26

1
45

4

3

depending on children

3

no idea

2Total

1849
3

11

1

15
245

5

6

6

If parents graduated from junior high school or high school, the education level required of theirchildren are almost higher than themselves (when “poo woo choo” is regarded as a high schoolgraduate) or about the same.
The most common answer is that they want their children to have a bachelor degree. These answers
account for more than half of the total. The next most common answer is that it depends on the child.

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