The Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) monitors grassroots economic activities by conducting a Taiwan-wide survey of street vendors every five years. The results of the most recent of these surveys were published in 2008 and offer people outside the industry a glimpse of the actual operations and economic scale of Taiwan ’ s night markets.
為了了解基層經濟活動，每 5 年行政院主計處都會走訪全台進行「攤販大調查」，最新的數字發布於 2008 年，讓外界得以略窺夜市臉譜和運作的真相。