DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04402.v3
title: Nang Rong Projects [Thailand]
title: Version 3

description: Social surveys were the starting point for research in Nang Rong, a district in the Buriram province of northeast Thailand. The surveys were part of three waves of data collection conducted in 1984, 1994, and 2000. The baseline was established in 1984 when a community survey and a household census were conducted in 51 study villages. The census obtained information on all members of all households within the study area. A second round of surveys was fielded a decade after the baseline, in 1994, building on and extending the original research design and focus. The 1994 data were collected through a community survey administered in all villages in Nang Rong (including but not limited to the original 51 study villages), a household survey providing a complete census of all households in each of the original 51 study villages, and a migrant follow-up survey. The migrant follow-up survey collected data on out-migrants from 22 of the original 51 study villages who had relocated to one of four urban destinations: (1) metropolitan Bangkok, (2) the eastern seaboard, a focus of rapid growth and development, (3) Korat, a regional city, and (4) Buriram, the provincial capital. The 2000 round of data collection again built on the previous data collection efforts and included a community survey administered in all villages in Nang Rong district, a household survey and complete census of the original 51 study villages, a migrant follow-up survey that tracked out-migrants from 22 villages to the four urban destinations as well as to rural villages within Nang Rong district. In addition, this round also included a geospatial component with the collection of locational data for dwelling units and agricultural plots.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks.; Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: 1984 Household Data 
 DS2: 1984 Individual Data 
 DS3: 1994 Harvest Help Data 
 DS4: 1994 Household Data 
 DS5: 1994 Individual Data 
 DS6: 1994 Life History Data 
 DS7: 1994 Migrant Family Data 
 DS8: 1994 Migrant Individual Data 
 DS9: 1994 Migrant Interview Attempts Data 
 DS10: 1994 Migrant Life History Data 
 DS11: 1994 Moved Data 
 DS12: 1994 Remittance Data 
 DS13: 1994 Migrant Sibling Data 
 DS14: 1994 Plots Used Data 
 DS15: 1994 Sibling Networks Data 
 DS16: 2000 Household Data 
 DS17: 2000 Individual Data 
 DS18: 2000 Life History Data 
 DS19: 2000 Migrant Family Data 
 DS20: 2000 Migrant Individual Data 
 DS21: 2000 Migrant Interview Attempt Data 
 DS22: 2000 Migrant Life History Data 
 DS23: 2000 Moved Data 
 DS24: 2000 Migrant Sibling Network Data 
 DS25: 2000 Plots Data 
 DS26: 1999 Plots Data 
 DS27: 2000 Sibling Networks Data 
 DS28: 2000 Constructed Measures Data 
 DS29: 1994 Constructed Measures Data 
 DS30: 1984 Household Data - Restricted 
 DS32: 1984 Individual Data - Restricted 
 DS33: 1994 Harvest Help Data - Restricted 
 DS34: 1994 Household Data - Restricted 
 DS35: 1994 Individual Data - Restricted 
 DS36: 1994 Life History Data - Restricted 
 DS37: 1994 Migrant Family Data - Restricted 
 DS38: 1994 Migrant Individual Data - Restricted 
 DS39: 1994 Migrant Interview Attempts Data - Restricted 
 DS40: 1994 Migrant Life History Data - Restricted 
 DS41: 1994 Moved Data - Restricted 
 DS42: 1994 Remittance Data - Restricted 
 DS43: 1994 Migrant Sibling Data - Restricted 
 DS44: 1994 Plots Used Data - Restricted 
 DS45: 1994 Sibling Networks Data - Restricted 
 DS46: 2000 Household Data - Restricted 
 DS47: 2000 Individual Data - Restricted 
 DS48: 2000 Life History Data - Restricted 
 DS49: 2000 Migrant Family Data - Restricted 
 DS50: 2000 Migrant Individual Data - Restricted 
 DS51: 2000 Migrant Interview Attempt Data - Restricted 
 DS52: 2000 Migrant Life History Data - Restricted 
 DS53: 2000 Moved Data - Restricted 
 DS54: 2000 Migrant Sibling Network Data - Restricted 
 DS55: 2000 Plots Data - Restricted 
 DS56: 1999 Plots Data - Restricted 
 DS57: 2000 Sibling Networks Data - Restricted 
 DS58: 2000 Constructed Measures Data - Restricted 
 DS59: 1994 Constructed Measures Data - Restricted 
 DS60: 1994 Social Networks, Household Level - Restricted 
 DS61: 1994 Social Networks, Village Level - Restricted 
 DS62: 1984 Village Survey - Restricted 
 DS63: 1994 Village Survey - Restricted 
 DS64: 2000 Village Survey - Restricted 
 DS65: Individual ID Variable Linking File - Restricted
description: face-to-face interview 
The restricted-use data initially included four datasets that were intended to serve as linking files between the public and restricted versions of the data. However, the linking variables were merged into the appropriate restricted datasets and the linking files were eliminated.
description: Individuals, families, and households in Thailand's Nang Rong district. Smallest Geographic Unit: village
description: For the 1984 data purposive sampling was used to select villages. Group discussion method with selected village informants was employed to collect village information. This yielded a sample of 34,035 people living in 5,860 households in 51 villages in Nang Rong district. For the 1994 data sampling consisted of a community profile, household survey, and a migrant follow-up survey. The 1994 community profile gathered information in all 310 villages in Nang Rong district, including but not limited to the 51 villages that were part of the original 1984 survey. The 1994 household survey was a complete household census in each of the 51 villages that were part of the 1984 survey. The 1995 migrant follow-up survey collected data from 1781 out-migrants from 22 of the 51 villages. The 22 villages were selected randomly within strata created by cross-classifying general location and distance from major paved roads in 1984. Persons resident in 1984 but no longer resident in 1994 were candidates for follow-up if they had gone to one of the four most popular destination areas: Bangkok, the eastern seaboard, Korat, or Buriram. For the 2000 data sampling consisted of a community survey profile, household survey, and a migrant follow-up survey. The 2000 community survey profiled all 346 villages in Nang Rong district. The 2000 household survey included a complete census of all person in all households in the 51 original study villages. The data include persons who migrated into the study villages as well as those 1984 residents still residing in those villages. The 2000 survey included a follow-up on all 1984 and 1994 residents in 2000. An annual life history was collected in 2000 for those aged 18-41. The 2000 migrant follow-up survey tracked more than 3,400 migrants from 22 villages to the four urban destinations and to rural villages within Nang Rong district.