{"id":168374,"date":"2025-06-08T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168374\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:37:15","slug":"tpso-reveals-what-thai-households-spend-on-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168374\/","title":{"rendered":"TPSO reveals what Thai households spend on most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai households spent an average of 21,037 baht in May, with housing-related expenses, such as rent, electricity, and cooking gas, being the highest cost, according to the <strong>Trade Policy and Strategy Office<\/strong> (<strong>TPSO<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>TPSO Director <strong>Poonpong Naiyanapakorn<\/strong> said the spending occurred against the backdrop of a slight rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which stood at 100.40 in May, up from 100.14 in April.<\/p>\n<p>Spending was divided into two main categories: expenses unrelated to food and non-alcoholic beverages, and those related to that group, according to\u00a0TPSO.<\/p>\n<p>The former category accounted for 60.45% of total household spending, Poonpong said, adding of that, 24.56%, around 5,167 baht, went to housing costs including rent, electricity, gas, and household appliances.<\/p>\n<p>He said that transportation, fuel, and mobile phone bills made up 22.16% (4,661 baht), followed by healthcare (1,335 baht, 6.36%), education (849 baht, 4.04%), and clothing (440 baht, 2.09%). Spending on cigarettes and alcohol totaled 216 baht, or 1.24%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thai households spent an average of 21,037 baht in May, with housing-related expenses, such as rent, electricity, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,6333,70408,70405,70407,70409,16,15,70406],"class_list":{"0":"post-168374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-the-trade-policy-and-strategy-office-tspo","12":"tag-tpso","13":"tag-trade-policy-and-strategy-office","14":"tag-transport-fee","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-utility-costs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114649435229142192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}