Research undertaken by Chen Kuan-cheng, a researcher at Academia Sinica's Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, points out that those who go from Taiwan to mainland China to get married are mostly males from families with roots in Chinese provinces other than Taiwan. Over 80 percent of these people get married to women from the same town as that from which their own families originated.
中央研究院社會科學研究所的研究員陳寬政的研究指出，去大陸結婚的在台配偶中，以外省籍、男性為主，且百分之八十以上跟原籍、乃至於同鄉的女性結婚。