臺灣家戶福利水準之研究民國65到79年家庭收支調查樣本戶資料的計量分析

王金利

《經濟研究》 32卷1期 (1994/01) Pp. 19-47

https://doi.org/10.29765/TEI.199401.0001

摘要

本文的目的係在探討台灣地區從民國65年以來家戶福利水準的狀況與變動趨勢，並按居住地區、戶内人口數、戶長職業、敎育水準與年齡分類後比較家戶的福利水準。福利水準的指標由總合近似理想需求體系的間接效用函數推估之，該函數的總支出額須經等成員人數校正。實証結果完全基於歷年家庭收支調查的每一戶樣本資料。就全社會平均而言，福利水準指數由民國65年的1.989穩定地上升到民國79年的2.807，各類家戶福利水準的比較，都市家戶福利水準最高，一人家戶最低，戶長年齡在45-54歲的家戶最高，65歲以上家戶最低，非農業家戶較高。另者，戶長敎育水準較長者，其福利水準亦是較高。

並列摘要

The purpose of this paper is to study the situation and trend of household welfare and the difference of household welfare categorized by residence, family size, occupation, education and age of household heads in Taiwan from 1976. The indicators have been derived from the indirect utility function of the Aggregate Almost Ideal Demand System in which the total expenditure of household is corrected by general equivalence scales. The empirical results were completely based on every sample of the annual family survey data. The index of household welfare in Taiwan steadily rose from 1.989 in 1976 to 2.807 in 1990. The comparisons among the categorized households were briefly shown in the following: The welfare of city households was highest; one-person households lowest; households with age 45-54 of head highest; households with the head aged over of lowest; nonfarm households higher. And the longer education of household heads, the higher household welfare is.