Income Distribution among Elderly in Kanchanaburi, Thailand

The study explored income distribution among elderly in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. It based its analysis on relative income distribution by dividing population by income into 5 groups from highest 20% to lowest 20% where the first group represents those with highest incomes and the latter are those who have lowest incomes. The result shows that there is a significant number of people who have reported themselves of working/having jobs/being employed but turned out to have no income. The investigation was carried out further and found that among these people, the majority participate in household economic activities and share income with other family members. Others may possibly have other sources of finance that are not related to work e.g. the Elderly allowance from the Government, remittances from children or pension etc. The findings can be concluded that most elderly in Kanchanaburi province are able to support themselves with different sources of income.