According to CIP statistics, among urban Aborigines live outside Taipei and Kaohsiung Cities in 2007, at least 24 % were employed as day laborers. The figures for Taipei and Kaohsiung were 19 % and 16 % respectively. In all, 20 % of Aborigines worked as day laborers compared to only 3 % of Han Chinese; their rate of employment in that kind of work was nearly seven times higher.
據原民會 2007 年的調查，居住在台北市、高雄市以外的都原族人，每百人之中，至少有 24 人自認是「打零工族群」，比例高於北、高兩地（各為 19 % 及 16 %）；三者平均 20 %，約為漢人打零工人口比例（3 %）的 7 倍。