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Title: Social Indicators in Taiwan


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Social Indicators in Taiwan
  • Bureau of Statistics, DGBAS
  • JAO, Chih- Chien

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Contents
  1. Progress of Social Indicator Development in
    Taiwan
  2. Peoples Life Indicator (PLI) compound index
  3. Future Prospect
  4. Conclusion

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1. Social Indicator Development in Taiwan
Past and Present
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Taiwans Social Indicators development History
(1) In Academia
  • 1995Compile Peoples Life Indicator compound
    index (9 areas 55 indicators)

(2)In Government
  • 1979DGBAS embarked on the Annual Social
    Indicator Report
  • 1975
  • CEPD worked on the Annual Social Welfare
    Indicators
  • 1990Compile Social Indicator Compound Index
    (11 areas 248 indicators)
  • 1980Academia Sinica organized 3 seminars on
    social indicators


Compile Social Indicator Annually
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2. Peoples Life Indicator (PLI) compound index
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Social Indicators Compound index 1990-
Peoples Life Indicators (PLI) 1995-
The objective( measuring overall social
development) is too broad to explain and it has
no direct relations with real feeling of life.
Q o L
Social Indicators Yearbook 1979-
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Framework of PLI (2001 Revised)
  • 9 Divisions?24 The Sub-divisions?47 Statistics
    Items ?
  • 55 Statistical Indicators

Objective Indicators Persons Aged 65 Years and
Over Living with Relatives Abandoned Infants
Rate Single Parent Rate Crude Divorce Rate
Children Mistreated as of Total Population
under 12 Percentage of Population under 18 That
Has Left Home Average Living Space for Each
Person House Rent as Family Disposable Income

Subjective Indicators Satisfaction with
Taking Care Of Parent Satisfaction with Rearing
and Educating Children Satisfaction with
Marriage Satisfaction with Relationship between
Parent and Child Satisfaction with Living
Space Satisfaction with Loan or Rent for House
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Composite Indices of PLI
Survey on the Importance of PLI
? Importance Satisfication ---
Demand ?
Weight
PLI Division ?
Subdivision ? Statistics Items
? Objective indicators
--------- Composite Indices
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Long-Term Trend
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Comment
  • Through constant improvements and consulting with
    academic scholars, the quality of social
    indicator in Taiwan has been advanced.
  • However, since our society is changing fast, the
    social indicator system and compound indexes are
    lagging behind in integrating important social
    issues and related theoretical frameworks. Thats
    what we have to improve in future.

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3. Future Prospect
12
OECD Social Indicator Program
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(1) Areas of concern
  • To determine areas of concern for a specific
    region, depends on the long-term observation of
    the local social conditions and development. It
    also relies on the application of social theories
    to formulate region-specific indicators.
  • These should be modified or changed according to
    social development.

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Comparing Areas in TWN and AUS
Taiwan Australia
1.Population and Community 1.Population
2.Social Participation 2.Family and Community
3.Health 3.Health
4.Education and Research 4.Education and Training
5.Employment 5.Employment
6.Economic Conditions 6.Economic resources
7.Public Safety 7.Crime and Justice
8.Culture and Leisure 8.Culture and Leisure
9.1 Living Environment 9.Housing
9.2 Living Environment (Human sustainable develop.)
10.Social Welfare
11.Trans. and Communication
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ABS - Key Questions of Social Indicators System
(2) Factors affecting wellbeing
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Key Questions of Social Indicators System
(Continued)
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ABS - Key Questions of Social Indicators System
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Factors affecting wellbeing
Individual factors (disability education attainment income life transitions).
Social and other factors ( social capital transactions social change economic conditions)
. mutual trust, responsibility ( increase in
confidence for police and judicature, equality
between genders, consensus in environmental
protection, etc. )
Social Wellbeing
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(3) Social Indicators
  • In fact, any statistic, either simple or derived,
    may be viewed as a social indicator if it
    reflects a social issue or idea or tells you
    something about social conditions, but a guide
    to selecting effective social indicators is
    provided opposite.
  • Measuring Wellbeing Framework for Australian
    Social Statistics

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Suitable Social Indicators
  • reflective
  • meaningful and sensitive to changes
  • summary in nature
  • able to disaggregated
  • easily interpreted
  • available as a time series

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OECD Social Indicators Model
  • state-response model,SR
  • social context-status-response model,
  • CSR

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(4) Social Issues
  • Definition (biggest concerns)
  • Social Shock
  • 921 Earthquake (Taiwan,1999)
  • 911 Terrorist attack (NY,2001)
  • Social Movement
  • Gender equality

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4. Conclusions
  • Social indicators development in Taiwan for the
    past two decades greatly contributes to the
    depiction and interpretation of social
    circumstances.
  • Future job of social indicators in Taiwan is to
    develop its own theoretical framework by learning
    from the experiences of advanced countries, and
    adjusting them according to its social
    conditions.

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4. Conclusions (Cont.)
  • The government must continue its cooperation with
    the academia to update theories, to improve
    quality and to examine functions so as to
    maintain the flexibility and continuous progress
    of social indicators.
  • With all these efforts, social indicators will be
    able to truly depict the society and faithfully
    disclose the status of well-being.

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Comments welcome
  • Topics for discussion
  • 1.The latest trends and developments of social
    indicators.
  • 2.What kind of social indicators are needed to
    reveal social development in the future.

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The endThank you
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