The relationship between socioeconomic and food source factors and caloric energy acquired of the coastal artisanal fishing households in Trang province, Southern Thailand
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This research aimed to examine the relationship between socioeconomic and food source factors and the caloric energy acquired of the coastal artisanal fishing households in Trang province, southern Thailand. The sample for the study consisted of 240 the coastal artisanal fishing households. The instrument used in the research was a structured interview schedule. The data were analyzed using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient. The results of the study reveal the following: For the socioeconomic factor, the number of members in the household shows a negatively ‘very low’ correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households (r = -.169), while the amount of food consumed per week show a positively ‘very low’ correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households (r = .153). Cash income earned from crops and livestock show a ‘very high’ correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing household (r = -.808, r = -.882 respectively); whereas educational level of the household head and cash income earned from fish caught from the sea show no correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households. For the food source factors, the ratio of food from crop cultivation and livestock raising shows a negatively ‘very low’ correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households (r = -.168); whereas the yield of livestock shows a negatively ‘high’ correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households (r = -.776). As for other factors, the proportion of food from nature, market, shop, goods exchange, total production of marine animals, plants, vegetable, including types of aquatic animals, plants, vegetable and livestock show no correlation with an average caloric energy of the coastal artisanal fishing households in Trang province.
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