The Clustering of Socio-economic in Mahasarakham Provience

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The purpose of this research is to classify socio-economic households in Mahasarakham Province from multidimensional variables and to compere the results with the Gini index. The secondary data (449 households) from the socio - economic survey project, the National Statistical Office, Mahasarakham province are employed. Data are analyzed by descriptive statistic; min, max, mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistic; t-test and cluster analysis. The socio-economic household can be divided into 2 groups as 1) the household with insufficiency income not more than 10 percent of the total family income and 2) the household with insufficiency income more than 10 percent of the total family income. The classification groups from clustering analysis are different from Gini index approach. Thus, the cluster approach can be another method for the household classification for multidimensional variables.