The purposes of this research were to study: 1) the people's cognition to municipal administration 2) the factors affecting the people's cognition to municipal administration. The research samples was 400 people who live in Nakhon Chai Si Subdistrict Municipality, derived by proportional stratified random sampling as distributed by community zone. The questionnaire was used as a research tool. The researcher was used a quantitative method and a computer program for data analysis. The statistics was used in frequency, percentage, range (R), standard deviation (S.D.), the t-test statistic and one-way analysis of variance. F-test. The study was found that
1. Overall, level of people’s cognition to municipal administration were mostly at the high level. Management style and administration participation in municipal administration were in high level. The municipal legal was in low level.
2. The people with difference in age, education level, occupation, income, social status, period of residence in the community zone, perception of information, had no difference people’s cognition to municipal administration.
3. The people with difference in sex, had difference people’s cognition to municipal administration.
4. The people with difference in sex, age, education level, income, social status, period of residence in the community zone, perception of information, had no difference people’s cognition to management style of municipality.
5. The people with difference in occupation, had difference people’s cognition to management style of municipality.
6. The people with difference in sex, age, education level, occupation, income, social status, period of residence in the community zone, perception of information, had no difference people’s cognition to people participation of municipality.
7. The people with difference in sex, age, occupation, income, social status, period of residence in the community zone, perception of information, had no difference people’s cognition to the legal of municipality.
8. The people with difference in education level, had no difference people’s cognition to the legal of municipality.
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