Thailand

Organization responsible for the statistics

Social Security Office.

Source

Insurance records of the Workmen's Compensation Fund (WCF).

Coverage

Persons:

All persons insured.

About 3,640,000 persons were registered with the Workmen's Compensation Fund in 1994.

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

Not available.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Compensated injuries including occupational diseases and commuting accidents.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

Number of reported injuries, number of employees entitled to compensation and total amount of compensation paid, by:

month;
region.

Number of compensated injuries by type of severity and by:

month;
region;
economic activity;
agency related to the injury;
cause of injury;
age group;
size of establishment.

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Social Security Office: Annual Statistics of Social Security Office.

Department of Labour: Yearbook of Labour Statistics.

National Statistical Office: Social Indicators (annual).

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to compensated injuries (including occupational diseases and commuting accidents) according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk (total number of persons insured) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.