"Where and to whom do they speak it?" and "What are reasons for not speaking Taiwanese?" as well as questions about the usefulness of Taiwanese and whether fluency in Taiwanese or English would be more desirable. About 200 households were queried at random from the four city phone books, for a total sample of 801 respondents.
針對「誰在講台語」「在什麼地方、對什麼人講」「不說台語的原因」以及「台語的使用能力」「台語與英語的選擇」等問題，本刊在九月二十八日到十月二日晚間以台北、台中、高雄、宜蘭四個都市住戶電話簿進行隨機抽樣，每區各抽兩百份，有效樣本八百零一份。