Record number identify as ‘Taiwanese,’ poll finds

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 05, 2020
By: Wu Po-hsuan and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer


A record number of people in the nation now regard themselves as “Taiwanese,” rather than “Chinese,” a survey released on Friday by National Chengchi University’s Election Study Center showed.

A record 67 percent of the population identify as “Taiwanese,” while only 2.4 percent consider themselves to be “Chinese,” the center said, citing the survey’s findings.

The center has been conducting the survey once or twice a year since June 1992, and uses the data to study trends in the self-identity of Taiwanese, it said.    [FULL  STORY]

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