3 % of "mainlanders" (people whose fathers are of mainland ancestry) and 40 % of native Taiwanese Hakkas use Taiwanese to speak with their fathers (33 % of mainlanders speak Taiwanese to their mothers, and 42 % of Hakkas do).
三成三的大陸省籍人士、四成的本省客家人與父親交談以台語為語言之一（與母親以台語交談的比例，大陸省籍為三成三，本省客家為四成二）。