Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	strongly agree	145	12.3%
2	agree	582	49.5%
3	disagree	284	24.1%
4	strongly disagree	35	3.0%
5	do not consider self to be a citizen of Taichung City	4	0.3%
90	omit	0	0%
95	refuse to answer	3	0.2%
96	it's depended	12	1.0%
97	none opinion	59	5.0%
98	don't know	53	4.5%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	The municipality mayoral election is a vote of confidence in	448	38.1%
2	The municipality mayoral election is only a local election a	569	48.3%
90	omit	0	0%
92	none of the above	23	1.9%
95	refuse to answer	7	0.6%
96	it's depended	5	0.4%
97	none opinion	19	1.6%
98	don't know	106	9.0%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	social welfare	229	19.5%
2	law and order	98	8.3%
3	transportation	26	2.2%
4	public infrastructure	84	7.1%
5	industrial and commercial development	254	21.6%
6	environmental protection	19	1.6%
7	public health	12	1.0%
8	education and culture	38	3.2%
9	narrow urban-rural gap	5	0.4%
10	agriculture and fishery related problems	4	0.3%
11	Livelihood	32	2.7%
12	political parties related issues	3	0.2%
13	the future of our country	1	0.1%
14	his personal ethics	3	0.2%
15	candidate's platform	3	0.2%
16	internationalization	1	0.1%
17	Cross-strait contact	7	0.6%
18	local development	10	0.9%
19	municipal administration efficiency	4	0.3%
20	ethnic issues	2	0.2%
21	vote depend on candidates	1	0.1%
22	public order and transportation	1	0.1%
23	increase the job vacancy of public officials	1	0.1%
24	public order and industrial and commercial development	2	0.2%
90	omit	0	0%
92	none of the above	139	11.8%
95	refuse to answer	3	0.2%
96	it's depended	21	1.8%
97	none opinion	28	2.4%
98	don't know	146	12.4%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	Yi-da real estate development affair	74	6.3%
2	betrayal of his party	367	31.2%
3	smearing his opponents	53	4.5%
4	personal ethnic	31	2.6%
5	hate him	2	0.2%
6	DPP internal strife	6	0.5%
7	unhealthy	7	0.6%
8	didn't exert himself on disaster relief	18	1.5%
9	his wife engage in factions	2	0.2%
10	don't like his campaign staffs	4	0.3%
11	divided some part of the Kaohsiung county into Tainan city	1	0.1%
12	his performance does not well	3	0.2%
13	can't launch a campaign of publicity in Kaohsiung city	2	0.2%
14	smeared by other people	3	0.2%
15	abandons Huang guarantees Yang	2	0.2%
16	unfair primary election	2	0.2%
17	chop and change his policies all the time	1	0.1%
18	cross-strait policies	2	0.2%
19	ugly	1	0.1%
90	omit	0	0%
92	neither	273	23.2%
95	refuse to answer	15	1.3%
96	it's depended	5	0.4%
97	none opinion	12	1.0%
98	don't know	291	24.7%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	no hope of winning	107	9.1%
2	not good at maintaining friendship networks	53	4.5%
3	unhealthy	7	0.6%
4	hate KMT	3	0.2%
5	not engaged in local affairs	27	2.3%
6	bad political platform	13	1.1%
7	absent in the flood disaster	2	0.2%
8	didn't gain support from party	7	0.6%
9	make a political show	6	0.5%
10	should not join the mayor election	2	0.2%
11	corruption	2	0.2%
12	personal ethnic	14	1.2%
13	lack of ability	13	1.1%
14	negative campaign	13	1.1%
15	didn't exert herself on assisting the past campaign	1	0.1%
16	campaign strategy	2	0.2%
17	bad personality	6	0.5%
18	didn't listen to people's voice but party's	2	0.2%
19	old	1	0.1%
20	has an U.S. citizenship	1	0.1%
21	lack of ruling experience	7	0.6%
22	cross-strait policies	1	0.1%
23	not really trying to win the election	2	0.2%
24	bad reputation	1	0.1%
25	being a legislator too long	2	0.2%
26	ethnic ideology	1	0.1%
27	political family	2	0.2%
28	didn't looking after the household	0	0%
90	omit	1	0.1%
92	neither	479	40.7%
95	refuse to answer	14	1.2%
96	it's depended	10	0.9%
97	none opinion	22	1.9%
98	don't know	353	30.0%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	didn't handle natural disasters well	370	31.4%
2	personal ethics	50	4.2%
3	improper governance in the past	27	2.3%
4	attack opponent	18	1.5%
5	bad personality	6	0.5%
6	lack of ability	4	0.3%
7	unhealthy	12	1.0%
8	dislike DPP	2	0.2%
9	didn't take the campaign seriously	2	0.2%
10	didn't get close to the Chinese communist party	1	0.1%
11	old	1	0.1%
12	improper DPP primary election	1	0.1%
13	improper campaign way	4	0.3%
14	DPP internal strife	3	0.2%
15	DPP scandals	1	0.1%
16	related to Chen, Shui-bian	1	0.1%
17	didn't listen to people's voice but party's	1	0.1%
33	bad governance team	7	0.6%
90	omit	3	0.2%
92	neither	408	34.7%
95	refuse to answer	13	1.1%
96	it's depended	8	0.7%
97	none opinion	11	0.9%
98	don't know	223	18.9%
99	skip	0	0%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

Values Categories		n	percentage
1	changed mind and voted for a different candidate	74	6.3%
2	no effect	654	55.6%
3	didn't vote because of them	19	1.6%
90	omit	2	0.2%
95	refuse to answer	1	0.1%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	skip	427	36.3%
	Frequency :	1177	100%

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