Table 1.
Township-level social-demographic variables summarized by (a) urbanization levels and (b) regions in Taiwan
| |
Counts of townships (N) |
Social-demographic variables |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average size1 | Average population density2 | Average number of households3 | Sex ratio4 | % of people with higher education | Personal income5 | % of aboriginal peoples | ||
| (a). Urbanization levels | ||||||||
| Highly-urbanized |
27 |
8.2(13.76) |
20.7(7.66) |
59.1(4.71) |
97.7(4.71) |
33.3(9.09) |
844(212) |
0.4 |
| Medium-urbanized |
42 |
32.6(25.43) |
4.6(3.19) |
44.0(30.5) |
100.8(3.12) |
29.3(5.17) |
749(117) |
0.9 |
| Boomtown |
57 |
37.0(24.65) |
1.6(1.67) |
20.4(15.9) |
106.0(3.18) |
21.6(3.31) |
634(64) |
1.5 |
| General towns |
87 |
58.9(45.60) |
0.6(0.61) |
9.8(8.1) |
109.0(4.81) |
17.8(3.47) |
593(61) |
1.5 |
| Ageing towns |
35 |
72.9(43.39) |
0.2(0.16) |
3.7(2.9) |
116.5(6.54) |
11.5(2.35) |
540(42) |
3.9 |
| Rural towns |
61 |
119.8(267.00) |
0.1(0.21) |
5.0(2.9) |
115.9(5.22) |
12.3(2.85) |
548(46) |
21.8 |
| Remote towns |
40 |
75.8(332.86) |
0.3(0.470 |
4.9(4.4) |
111.3(6.32) |
13.9(4.00) |
555(59) |
32.8 |
|
Total |
359 |
54.23(182.17) |
0.67(0.58) |
9.8(26.7) |
108.9(7.89) |
17.2(8.41) |
589(133) |
1.9 |
| (b). Regions |
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| North |
89 |
82.62(122.14) |
1.55(8.2) |
21.44(39.1) |
105.6(9.0) |
23.2(10.0) |
661(184) |
0.8 |
| Middle |
106 |
99.12(209.32) |
0.75(4.1) |
9.65(14.7) |
109.8(7.1) |
17.0(6.5) |
575(85) |
0.3 |
| South |
135 |
74.64(98.04) |
0.54(5.0) |
8.86(20.9) |
108.9(6.6) |
16.4(7.3) |
586(100) |
0.2 |
| East | 29 | 280.82(358.29) | 0.09(0.7) | 3.39(9.6) | 116.9(7.4) | 10.5(5.1) | 516(90) | 38.0 |
(Source: Population and Housing Census in Taiwan-Fukien Area of the Republic of China, 2000)
Note: The numbers within the parentheses are standard deviation of social-demographic variables.
1. unit: Km2.
2. unit: thousand persons/km2.
3. unit: thousand.
4. Female = 100.
5. unit: thousands NT dollars. The data is acquired from the 2001 Income Tax Statistics released by the Ministry of Finance, Taiwan Central Government.