"But we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves in Taiwan," explains Chen Chin-kuei, chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy at National Taipei University. "Every country uses a different definition of a volunteer, and ours is very strict. We only include those who have received training from an organization, so the official numbers are naturally on the low side."
就此，台北大學公共行政暨政策系主任陳金貴解釋：「國人不必太過自卑，因為各國對志工的定義不同，而我們的統計定義嚴格，沒有經過組織訓練的助人者往往不納入統計，數字自然偏低。」