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<article-title>The Service Quality Development of Local Administrative Organizations in Northeast, Thailand</article-title>
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<author>Kwunkamol Donkwa</author>

<aff>Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the expectation and perception levels of service quality
toward people who lived in Local administration organizations in Northeast Thailand; 2) to study the
levels of service quality toward people from the discrepancy between their expectations and
perceptions; and 3) to analyze the factors affecting service quality toward people who lived in Local
administration organizations. The main focus of this study was people who have ever gone to use the
services for a period of one year on target areas of Pho Klang and Suranaree Municipalities, Nakhon
Ratchasima. Research instrument included questionnaire which was distributed to 400 samples. The
descriptive statistics used to analyze the data was based on the commutative frequency for percentage,
mean, standard deviation, and included the inferential statistics with One-way ANOVA and Stepwise
Multiple Regression Analysis. Results of the study revealed that the expectations and perceptions of
service quality toward people who lived in Local administration organizations were at high and medium
levels, respectively. As a result, the people had higher expectations than perceptions of service quality.
Besides, the factor affecting people&#x2019;s perceptions of service quality was reliability (&#x03B2; = 0.820) at a
significant level of 0.05.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Service quality, Local administration organizations, Northeast, Thailand. </p>
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