Taiwan Social Change Survey, 1999

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MISFORTN Do you often have the following feelings? ‘Do you feel that there are lots of misfortunes in life?'   0) Missing or Not applicable   1) Yes   2) No   3) Hard to say   7) Don't know

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Missing or Not applicable	1	.1%	.1%	-1.72
Yes	617	32.1%	32.1%	-.87
No	907	47.1%	79.2%	-.03
Hard to say	331	17.2%	96.4%	.82
Don't know	69	3.6%	100%	4.22

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Marital status Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	22-30	31-40	41-45	46-50	51-60	61-68	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.5% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Yes	39.4% 76	37.1% 108	38.3% 110	32.5% 95	28.0% 146	24.1% 82	32.1% 617
No	40.4% 78	41.9% 122	41.8% 120	46.9% 137	50.6% 264	54.7% 186	47.1% 907
Hard to say	13.0% 25	16.5% 48	17.4% 50	16.1% 47	18.6% 97	18.8% 64	17.2% 331
Don't know	6.7% 13	4.5% 13	2.4% 7	4.5% 13	2.9% 15	2.4% 8	3.6% 69
TOTAL	100.0% 193	100.0% 291	100.0% 287	100.0% 292	100.0% 522	100.0% 340	1925

Education (I-EDUC)

	None, self-study or Elementary	Junior high school (including vocational)	High school (HS)	Vocational HS (or cadet)	Junior college (of any kind)	College or Grad school	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.1% 1
Yes	38.9% 170	33.0% 93	28.9% 70	28.0% 102	27.6% 83	32.4% 93	31.9% 611
No	36.6% 160	46.1% 130	47.1% 114	53.8% 196	52.2% 157	50.9% 146	47.2% 903
Hard to say	17.4% 76	17.0% 48	19.8% 48	16.2% 59	18.6% 56	14.6% 42	17.2% 329
Don't know	7.1% 31	3.9% 11	4.1% 10	1.9% 7	1.7% 5	1.7% 5	3.6% 69
TOTAL	100.0% 437	100.0% 282	100.0% 242	100.0% 364	100.0% 301	100.0% 287	1913

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.1% 1
Yes	32.4% 312	31.7% 305	32.1% 617
No	46.7% 449	47.6% 458	47.1% 907
Hard to say	17.9% 172	16.5% 159	17.2% 331
Don't know	3.0% 29	4.2% 40	3.6% 69
TOTAL	100.0% 962	100.0% 963	1925

Household income (I-INCOME)

	NT$20,001 or less	NT$30,001-40,000	NT$40,001-60,000	NT$60,001-80,000	NT$80,001-120,000	More than NT$120,000	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0
Yes	37.1% 119	32.4% 83	31.4% 130	28.8% 72	31.0% 101	32.7% 65	32.3% 570
No	38.3% 123	43.4% 111	50.0% 207	52.8% 132	51.2% 167	51.3% 102	47.7% 842
Hard to say	17.1% 55	20.7% 53	17.4% 72	15.2% 38	15.0% 49	15.1% 30	16.8% 297
Don't know	7.5% 24	3.5% 9	1.2% 5	3.2% 8	2.8% 9	1.0% 2	3.2% 57
TOTAL	100.0% 321	100.0% 256	100.0% 414	100.0% 250	100.0% 326	100.0% 199	1766

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Unmarried	Married	Other (please specify)	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.00% 0	0.1% 1
Yes	27.7% 130	33.4% 485	0.00% 0	32.0% 615
No	51.2% 240	45.7% 663	0.00% 0	47.1% 903
Hard to say	18.1% 85	17.0% 246	0.00% 0	17.2% 331
Don't know	3.0% 14	3.8% 55	0.00% 0	3.6% 69
TOTAL	100.0% 469	100.0% 1450	100.0% 0	1919

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	"I have no religious belief"	Folk religion of any kind	Buddhism (any sect)	Taoism	Christian (includes Cath and Prot)	All other religions (including mixes of religions)	TOTAL
Missing or Not applicable	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Yes	27.1% 71	31.7% 204	36.0% 182	34.3% 84	25.9% 36	31.0% 40	32.1% 617
No	48.5% 127	45.1% 290	47.4% 240	44.5% 109	56.8% 79	47.3% 61	47.1% 906
Hard to say	19.8% 52	19.3% 124	13.8% 70	17.6% 43	13.7% 19	17.8% 23	17.2% 331
Don't know	4.6% 12	3.7% 24	2.8% 14	3.7% 9	3.6% 5	3.9% 5	3.6% 69
TOTAL	100.0% 262	100.0% 643	100.0% 506	100.0% 245	100.0% 139	100.0% 129	1924