Statistics from the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) show that in 1993 the unemployment rate in Taiwan was 1.45 %. In July of this year, unemployment hit 2.81 %. The number of unemployed reached more than 270,000, with the highest rate of unemployment being among people with less than a university or college education.
根據主計處所發佈統計數字顯示，相對於民國八十二年百分之一．四五的年平均失業率，今年上半年平均已提昇到百分之二．八一，失業人口高達二十七萬人，其中以大專以下學歷人口失業率最高。