Taking marriages between Taiwanese and those of other provinces, for example, in the first generation of cross-marriages, the percentage of such marriages involving a male Taiwanese and a female mainlander was 1.5 %. But the rate for mainlander men and locally born women was 7.4 % of the total marriages. This confirms the belief that first generation male mainlanders had to marry local women because of an imbalance in the marriage market.
其中以閩南和其他省分人士通婚為例，第一代的通婚比例中，男性為閩南人，而女性為外省人的通婚比例是百分之一．五，男女性族群反之的通婚比例則提高為百分之七．四，證明了第一代外省男性因婚姻市場不均衡，必須與本省女性通婚的說法。