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Republic of China/Taiwan - Weights
Wave LIS
unweighted
households
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weighted
households

HWEIGHT descriptives

HWEIGHT*d4
Weighted number of persons

Population
Size
(*)

Mean Min Max
1981 15,286 3,830.62 0.25 0.10 0.39 18,368.20 18,501,390
1986 16,434 4,427.00 0.27 0.02 0.38 20,046.42 19,757,799
1991 16,434 5,159.99 0.31 0.06 0.52 21,470.10 20,686,497
1995 14,706 5,731.18 0.39 0.08 0.58 22,564.87 21,627,936
1997 13,701 6,104,309 445.54 89.00 879.00 23,456,724 21,823,024
2000 13,801 6,588,644 477.40 102.00 907.00 23,820,274 22,303,700
2004 13,681 7,206,883 526.78 43.00 1578.23 24,666,839 22,701,079
(*) Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database
LIS COMMENTS on HWEIGHT:

The weights for the datasets of TW81, TW86, TW91 and TW95 have been divided to represent population in thousands

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