According to a recent study by Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, 83.6 percent of Taiwan house-holds own at least one copy of the little yellow booklet (borrowed copies not included) and 26.6 percent have two or more. That makes for 120 copies for every 100 families.
然而根據最近台灣省教育廳，委託中央研究院民族學研究所，所作的一份研究顯示：這本書在全省抽樣訪問的七百八十三個家庭中，家庭的實際擁有率（借來的不算）高達百分之八十三點六，其中百分之廿六點六甚至擁有二本以上；至於實際流通冊數，以七十三年為例，每一百個家庭，就有一百廿本。