Talk:List of provinces of Thailand by population

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[edit] Data source

Can anyone give the source for the numbers currently used? I'm looking at the 2000 final census info in this spreadsheet, from the website of the NSO, and I don't know where the numbers currently listed came from.

I'm interested in putting up a table that will show changes in population numbers over several columns of a table, with 1990 census info, 2000 census info, and DOPA info for recent years 2003, 2004, 2005 (and I've started gathering 2006 but I haven't found a source that gives all provinces in a single place yet). I've started drafting this table offline, modeled after the Thai version of this page. See the sample below, and comment on whether it's too cluttered, or should have its own page.

Rank	Province	Population 1990	Population 2000	Population 2003	Population 2004	Population 2005	Region
0	Bangkok Metropolitan Area	TBD	8,699,704??	8,554,751	8,395,838	8,524,158	Central
1	Bangkok	5,882,411	6,320,174	5,844,607	5,634,132	5,672,721	Central
2	Nakhon Ratchasima	2,375,476	2,550,204	2,591,050	2,539,344	2,546,763	Northeastern

Unless there are objections or someone can cite the source of the data currently in use, I'm going to scrap it and use the data I can verify. rikker 03:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The numbers currently used are from NSO as well - there were two versions of the census 2000 data, one preliminary and one final. I have compiled these (and several other sources, also the older census data as far as I could find them) in a spreadsheet at my website, and IIRC the one in the table should be the one from the final census data. The problem I have with the DOPA numbers - there are big differences between the DOPA 2000 and the census 2000 numbers. I have no idea what is the reason - maybe the census counted the actual residence, while DOPA uses the Amphoe where someone is registered - but I am not sure if it's good to mix both numbers in one table. Also, I'd think it makes more sense to add more historical numbers (e.g. some choosen census from 1900 till 2000) than just the data for each of the last 5 years. andy 11:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

You make a good point about mixing DOPA and NSO data, because they apparently have quite different data collecting methods. So we'll leave them unmixed for the time being. What would you think of a table that shows historical census data by decade, and a column for the most recent year from DOPA? Or would you still prefer just census data? We might want to make a separate page about Thai population info by province, as this could well be too much information for this specific page. We could sort it by region and subsort it alphabetically, so as to include census regional population totals as well.

I would like to add a column for Region to this page, though. I'm a bit gunshy being a newb and all, don't want to rock the boat too much.rikker 13:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Be bold. I have no problems with some historical census and the latest DOPA numbers added to the table, but maybe with a footnote explaining that the numberas are not fully compatible. Not sure whether the region is really necessary - and I worry that the table might get too wide to be displayed well for small screen resolutions. andy 11:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)