On Saturday, the Nation Poll director accompanied surveyors to poll residents of Bangkok’s Thung Khru district as part of “Thailand’s largest election opinion survey.”
Chettha Supyen, director of The Nation Poll and assistant rector of Navamindradhiraj University, and volunteers visited district inhabitants who had been chosen at random for the electoral poll.
The Thung Khru survey was the first of two rounds that will poll 150,000 persons at random.
The first round of voting will take place in nine regions, including Bangkok.
The first round’s results will be announced on April 18.
Nation Poll, according to Chettha, conducts door-to-door interviews rather than telephone conversations to obtain more accuracy.
Possible responders are chosen based on maps, and volunteers are dispatched to interview them, according to Chettha. If volunteers come upon unoccupied houses, they interview the neighbors, he says. Thung Khru residents were cooperative, he claimed.
The survey’s first round will end on Tuesday. The second phase will take place in the final week of this month, with 110,000 people being interviewed about the election.
