The Report on Women's Status in Taiwan, 1998
Statistics Related to the Women's Status Report
Relevant ReportsˇG
Population and Family
Relevant ReportsˇG
Working Status
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Table 28ˇG
Rate of Becoming the Poor, by Family Types
Unit: Persons, ˘Hˇ@ˇ@
| Family types | Two-Parents Family | 
Single parents family*  | 
            
Single  family*  | 
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| Male head of household  | 
            Female head of household  | 
            Male head of household  | 
            Female head of household  | 
        ||
| 1988 | 1,973 (15.61)  | 
            105 (17.74)  | 
            59 (16.25)  | 
            88 (22.56)  | 
            31 (7.28)  | 
        
| 1989 | 1,933 (15.38)  | 
            109 (18.47)  | 
            62 (17.56)  | 
            91 (20.54)  | 
            42 (9.98)  | 
        
| 1990 | 2,027 (16.52)  | 
            115 (18.00)  | 
            65 (17.86)  | 
            93 (21.18)  | 
            56 (11.16)  | 
        
| 1991 | 2,198 (17.82)  | 
            125 (19.29)  | 
            52 (15.29)  | 
            126 (26.42)  | 
            60 (13.13)  | 
        
| 1992 | 1,939 (15.87)  | 
            112 (19.02)  | 
            66 (16.84)  | 
            114 (21.76)  | 
            81 (14.67)  | 
        
| 1993 | 1,893 (15.66)  | 
            116 (17.63)  | 
            71 (17.19)  | 
            139 (25.41)  | 
            64 (11.47)  | 
        
| 1994 | 1,799 (14.96)  | 
            135 (18.49)  | 
            54 (13.71)  | 
            109 (20.22)  | 
            66 (10.68)  | 
        
*The definition of single family exclude the the family when the head of household is unmarried or the spouse is not registrated in the same household. Therefore, the single family only refers to the family that the head of household is cohabated, divorced, seperated or widowed.
| Made byˇG | Taiwan Women Web, Yam | 
| ResourceˇG | Journals of Community Development, 1996, vol.75, The Situations and Changes of the Relatively Poor Family in Taiwan.  | 
Yam Women Web since 1997.03.08 last
        updated : 1998.10.29
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