A random stratified sample of all students in Taiwan’s public and private senior high and vocational high schools as well as 5-year junior colleges was drawn to explore the sexually-related awareness, knowledge, attitude, behavior, and unmet needs. This survey indicates that Taiwan’s students: (1) lack of basic knowledge about contraception and reproduction; (2) are often not being taught what they are supposed to be or as adequately as they ought to be about these subjects in their academic courses in middle and senior high school; (3) have fairly permissive attitudes about sexual relationships, particularly males; (4) are sexually active, particularly males and those in private vocational schools although less so than U.S. counterparts; (5) want to learn about the nature of male and female intimate relationships; (6) and look to the schools and public health agencies to be more active learning resources.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the growth rate of school age (age 6－15) population and the development of the compulsory education system in Taiwan. The author discovered that, with the rapid increase of school age population, there has been a pressing demand to expand the current service. Due to a number of constraints, the speed of expansion cannot meet the quality and quantity of education required by the general public.
Problems such as over-populated schools, over-crowded classrooms, high teacher-student ratio and the divisionalization in order to accommodate more students are obstacles needed to be overcome. In view that there may be a slowdown in the growth rate of school age population in the future, the author suggested that restructuring of the school districts and establishing new schools can be used as means to balance the number of students per school and reduce the number of students per class to improve the quality of teaching.

In this paper, a scheme of administrative units is employed to define various types of move. Such kind of classification reflects both scope of market and distance of move. It thus allows us to explore whether selectivity of movement is progressive as distance of move increases or market scope extends. In addition, whether they are motivated by different considerations is another focus of discussion.
Results of this paper suggest that progressive selectivity for all types of movers is observed in terms of age. For sex and marital status, progressive selectivity is observed within subgroups of local movers and migrants. However, occupation and education have significant effects on probabilities of being few type of movers. Meanwhile, we also find that progressive selectivity is subject to the influence of two factors. One is the composition of each type of move by reasons of move; the other is development stage of a society.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of age-sex composition change of labor force on inadequate labor utilization in Taiwan. Inadequate labor utilization includes involuntary part-time work, low income work, and education-occupation mismatched work. Using both purging method and decomposing rate differences method, this study analyzes how change in inadequate labor utilization responded to the composition change of labor force from 1980 to 1988. The results suggest that inadequate utilization rate increases more than is immediately apparent from 1980 to 1988, because the age and sex structure changed in favorable direction in terms of adequate utilization－more middle-age and less younger labor force either for male or for female. Besides, the age and sex composition change had different influences on different types of inadequate labor utilization, respectively.

This study analyzes age standardized mortality rates over twelve years (1974-1985) for six causes of death－suicide, liver cirrhosis, tuberculosis, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and lung cancer in each Hsiang. The results indicate considerable areal variation in mortality. Among the causes of death, suicide, liver cirrhosis, and TB are positively correlated, and these three causes of death are negatively correlated with diabetes, lung cancer, and ischemic heart disease. Further analysis of the relationship between socio-economic factors and the area’s mortality reveals that these factors explain much regional variation in the suicide-TB-liver cirrhosis mortality cluster. Among these factors general health status is the most powerful explanatory variable for the suicide-TB-liver cirrhosis mortality cluster, while regional educational resources best explain lung cancer-diabetes-ischemic heart disease mortality variation. Somewhat surprisingly, the medical resources factor (as indicated by the number of physicians per thousand in the population) has no explanatory significance. This suggests that non-medical influences－especially the socio-economic structure of the locality－account more for the areal variation in specific health problems. Furthermore, the centralized and universal health policies as well as the individual oriented health services are not adequate to ameliorate area-specific problems. Instead, more localized community health service are suggested to meet local needs.

Based on the theories proposed and the data accumulated by the social scientists during the past thirty years, with an emphasis on the process of development in both Mainland China and Taiwan, this paper re-examines the long debated impacts of population growth on economic development. It is concluded that population growth can either stimulate or hinder the economic development, depending on how the development is created and formatted. There is no simple rule governing how the population growth affects the economic development. While the economic development in Mainland China is more related to the reform programs than the fertility control, the population growth in Taiwan has preceded the development.

The study of objectives of population education for secondary and elementary schools in Taiwan Area is important, because such education is highly associated with courses of population changes and social, economic, political as well as cultural developments. In order to plan and implement school population education effectively, it must first design proper educational goals.
Taking the necessity, the principle and the reference of population education into consideration, the study sets the common goal of population education as: to promote students and citizens to pursue abundant population knowledge to construct proper population attitude, to show adequate population behavior, to obtain skills and abilities for solving current and future population and related problems. Finally it will also contribute to the development of social, economic, political and cultural it will also contribute to the development of social, economic, political and cultural conditions of Taiwan society. The common goal mentioned above perhaps can be divided specifically into long term, middle term and short term ones. In considering the fact that levels of knowledge and intelligence of students in different levels or schools are varied. The present study also points out different goals of population education focused on different levels of secondary and elementary schools.

At a stage of approaching the completion of demographic transition in Taiwan in 1990s, this paper examines the transition of total fertility rates for the past seventy years, to explain the relationship between women`s fertility tempo and population cycles.
Norman Ryder’s translation model of cohort completed fertility and period total ferti1ity, TFR=CFR x (l-M`十RV`),.is employed here for analysis. The discrepancy between two time series of period fertility rate and cohort feiti1ity rate, signifies the effects of women`s fertility tempo on period rate. Ryder’s model is robust in terms of its dynamical1y analytical nature, that allows us directly test the experience of Taiwan`s fertility transition. Women`s fertility tempo is defined as the mean age of fertility, variance of fertility age, and completed fertility in this model.
It is found that women`s ferti1ity tempo played a significant role in affecting the observed period fertility level during the process of ferti1ity transition in Taiwan. The big discrepancy between cohort and period fertility rates has become close,and two series have resembled each other, after the translation of CFR to TFR.