In 1992, Hsiao Hsin-huang of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academia Sinica conducted research into how people in Taiwan spend their-money. He found that in that year entertainment expenditures beat out food expenditures for the top spot for the first time.
中央研究院社會所副研究員蕭新煌在研究我國民間消費支出的內容時發現民國八十一年「育樂消費」首度打敗「食物消費」支出，躍居第一位的現象。