Table 1 Township-level social-demographic variables summarized by (a) urbanization levels and (b) regions in Taiwan
| Â | Counts of townships (N) | Social-demographic variables | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
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 |