A recent survey shows on Sunday that 72.6 percent in Thailand's flood-hit areas suffer most from rising food prices.
ABAC Poll conducted the survey from Nov. 1 to 5 on 1,478 flood- affected people both inside and outside evacuation centers in Bangkok and its vicinity.
People are most satisfied with the military in delivering help and grade them 9.5 out of 10.
Another 66.3 percent of the respondents in evacuation centers want the government to create database of flood-hit people so as they could receive financial aid after floods subside.
As for what people expect from the administration for flood aftermath, 65 percent of the respondents want their houses repaired with the government's assistance.
The country's worst floods in over half a century have left at least 500 people dead and more than 9.4 million others affected in 64 flood-stricken provinces or over four-fifths of the whole nation.
Tens of thousands of factories have been inundated, putting over 600,000 people on the risk of loosing their jobs.
Thai Chamber of Commerce estimated flood-caused damage at 20 billion to 23 billion U.S. dollars if the overall areas in capital city of Bangkok are submerged as the city's gross domestic product is about 36 billion U.S. dollars.
Some 20 percent of the city in northern, eastern and western areas has already been swamped and the inner city is likely to be flooded.
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