Research, Development and Evaluation Commission

New Year’s Eve and Taipei Lantern Festival 
According to the recent poll conducted by the RDEC (Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission), Taipei City Government, 77% of the respondents knew that the city government held a New Year’s Eve Party, and 23% did not. Among the respondents who knew about the New Year's Eve party, 72% had attended the event or watched it on TV or on the Internet. Regarding the Taipei Lantern Festival, 31% knew that the 2021 Taipei Lantern Festival was postponed from February to December due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Among those who knew the Lantern Festival time, 57% knew that the venue was Wanhua, and 52% learned about the Lantern Festival through TV commercials.

COVID-19 Impact on Large Events
COVID-19 has been spreading for two years now. When asked whether people would be willing to go out and participate in large activities due to the epidemic, 79%  of respondents expressed they would be affected, a decrease of 9 percent from the previous survey back in February 2020. According to a cross-analysis, the proportion of the epidemic's impact on participation in large-scale activities decreased irrespective of age. However, according to the data, it still affects nearly 80% of people's willingness to go out to participate in large-scale events.

Taipei Restaurant Bus 
In early December 2021, the Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government cooperated with private operators to launch the country's first "Double-Decker Dining Car", allowing people to enjoy five-star restaurant meals when taking a bus tour of the city, providing a new experience for city sightseeing. According to the survey results, 42% of respondents are aware that the food trucks have been on the road for one and a half months. Among them, the awareness rate is higher through TV advertisements (44%), Internet search (25%), and other social media such as LINE and FACEBOOK (19%).

Qingshan King Festival
In addition to conducting a public survey on municipal issues for people over 18 years old who have registered citizenship in this city and to understand the views of the Wanhua District residents on the Monga Qingshan Festival last year, people over 18 years old who live in Wanhua District are also included in the phone survey.
The Qingshan King’s Festival returned last year, and the festival scale was reduced compared to the Qingshan Temple’s 165th-anniversary celebration in 2019. The survey results showed that the activity awareness (83%) and the participation rate of Wanhua District residents (6%) were both lower than last time. In order to reduce the impact of the festival on people's lives, the new policy regulates that all activities must be ended before 12:00 am, and no firecrackers were allowed to be set off after 10:00 pm last year. According to the survey, 78% of the residents of the WanHua District were satisfied. The average level of satisfaction with the activity route is 6 percent higher than the overall average; 75% of Wanhua residents believe that the festival has no negative impact on their lives, while 25% believe that it does. No matter what kind of negative impact (such as activity noise, traffic jams, etc.), the proportion is lower than the previous survey, which shows the troubles caused by the Qingshan King Festival to Wanhua District residents last year were lessened.

Opinion Poll Background Information
The research was conducted during the evenings of January 17th to 21st, 2022. The survey method uses Taipei City’s residential telephone as the population, a systematic sample survey with two-digit mantissa random substitution telephones, and weights the samples with gender, age, and place of household registration. A total of 1,078 Taipei citizens over the age of 18 were successfully interviewed, and 1,176 refused the interview; and under a 95% confidence interval, the margin of sampling error is less than 2.98%.
Wanhua District Qingshan King Festival Survey was conducted during the evenings of January 17th to 22nd, 2022. The survey method uses Wanhua District’s residential telephone as the population, a systematic sample survey with four-digit   mantissa random substitution telephones, and weights the samples with gender, age, and place of household registration. Overall, 814 Wanhua citizens above the age of 18 were successfully interviewed, while 961 rejected the interview; and under a 95% confidence interval, the margin of sampling errors is under ±3.43%.