This dataset is third in a series I am doing which is aimed at translating data originating from the Thai government OpenData portal into English so that it can be utilized by the wider international audience.

This dataset shows the count of foreign Buddhist monks, nuns and novices who requested residency in Thailand by county/place of origin in 2014. The original dataset was compiled by the National Office of Buddhism (ONaB), which is a government agency under the Office of the Prime Minister, from counts provided by the Secretariat of the Sangha Supreme Council, which is the spiritual governing body of the quasi-independent Buddhist order in Thailand. The raw dataset was extracted, translated then scrubbed to remove regional averages and redundant Thai language fields and to prepare for georeferencing. The .csv cleaned dataset was georeferenced using Carto’s georeference engine. The resulting spatial dataset shows the count of monks, nuns and novices in individual columns as well as the translated place names.

The map shows the total count of all monks, nuns and novices from each place of origin, with popups listing the individual counts.

Notes:
(1) The dataset contains 2 stateless Southeast Asian tribes that were not georeferenced but is in the dataset.
(2) There is ambiguity in the Thai language used in the reference dataset for the phase “requesting residency” (original wording: จำนวนพระภิกษุ สามเณร แม่ชี ชาวต่างประเทศ ขออนุญาตพำนักอยู่ในราชอาณาจักร). It is unclear whether the count reflects only individuals that were approved for residency or all requests for residency.

The complete dataset including values and rate for each entry year can be found on CARTO and can be exported in multiple formats: Joined statistical data with geometry