标题: A Third of Taiwanese Older Than 20 Live with Parent(s) [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-13-2016 15:11 标题: A Third of Taiwanese Older Than 20 Live with Parent(s) Jermyn Chow, A Third of Taiwan's adults still live with mum and dad. The Strait Times, http://www.straitstimes.com/asia ... ve-with-mum-and-dad
Note:
(a) Amber Wang "moved into her parents' three-room apartment in the Shilin district 台北市士林區 * * * And she's not alone. The proportion of Taiwanese over the age of 20 living with their parents is 33.5 per cent (6.33 million), according to the latest statistics from Taiwan's Ministry of Interior. About a million of those between 35 and 54 are even married."
新聞發布: 21%熟齡有偶人口與父母同住. 內政部, Aug 31, 2016. www.moi.gov.tw/chi/chi_latest_ne ... ode=02&sn=10985
(b) "Taipei is looking to build cheap public housing, or social housing 社會住宅, to stop young professionals and their families from leaving the city. * * * with rents that are lower than the average market rental rate."
public housing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing
(social housing)
(c) "Graphic designer Liu Hao-lan, 28, who earns about NT$35,000 a month (S$1,500), says he cannot afford to shell out a third of his pay cheque to rent a shoebox studio apartment."
studio apartment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_apartment
(d) "Indeed, the Taiwanese still seem to be a happy lot. They recently emerged tops in an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development index that measures people's well-being."
(i) lot (n): "a group or a person of a particular kind (generally used in a derogatory or dismissive way) <group or a person of a particular kind (generally used in a derogatory or dismissive way) <an inefficient lot, our town council>" http://www.oxforddictionaries.co ... merican_english/lot
(ii) Chen Cheng-wei and Elizabeth Hsu, Taiwan's Gross National Happiness Index Tops Asian Countries. Central News Agency, Aug 31, 2015. http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201508310031.aspx
You have to be careful about this report. You see, the index is issued by Taiwan itseff, not by OECD. Taiwan adopts the same index and formula of one criteria within OECD Better Life Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Better_Life_Index
(First published on 24 May 2011, it includes 11 "dimensions" of well-being: * * * "9 Life Satisfaction: level of happiness" * * * )
Then Taiwan calculates its own happiness, labels it as Gross National Happiness (GNH) index. OECD seldom render statistics on non-members.