Report

Thailand’s Child Support Grant: An Assessment of the Targeting Method

Technical note

A woman is holding two young children in her arms, one on each side. The children are wearing casual clothes and look directly at the camera with serious expressions. The woman smiles gently while standing in what appears to be a modest home, with dim lighting and household items in the background. — UNICEF Thailand/2017/Thuentap

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Highlights

This Technical Note investigates the extent of "exclusion error" in the current Child Support Grant in Thailand. The exclusion error" refers to the proportion of eligible children who are left out of the scheme, and the analysis uses fuzzy matching technics comparing the socio-economic survey data with the administrative data from the Child Support Grant Management Information System.