Research, Development and Evaluation Commission

A poll on satisfaction with transportation conditions, bus and taxi experiences and housing policies, such as public housing and the rental and property management service for public housing etc., is conducted in February 2018 by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Taipei City Government (hereinafter referred to as “RDEC”) to learn about Taipei citizens’ opinions on transportation and housing policies.
For transportation, the poll result indicates respondents are generally positive about it. 69% of the respondents are happy with the transportation condition, while 23% are not; about 80% of the respondents, which is 893 people, ride public transit bus at least once before, and 82% of them are satisfied with the service, and 11% are not. For taxi experiences, 71% of the respondents take a taxi in recent one year. For questions about hailing a taxi, given multiple choices, 68% of those using taxi hail one on the street, following by phone calls 29%, and 22% by mobile app. 83% are satisfied with the experience and 12% are not.          
Regarding housing in Taipei, more than 80% of the respondents live in a house owned by them or their families, and 14% in rental properties. When being asked about how Taipei City Government (hereinafter referred to as “TCG”) does in solving housing problems, 24% are pleased with TCG’s performance, 34% are not and 41% answer no opinion/do not know. In addition, 67% know the public housing TCG has been promoting, but 32% do not; and, 74% support the policy, while less than 10% disapprove of it. As to the rental and property management service for public housing, 30% of the respondents know the service and 70% do not; 55% are supportive, 22% are not, and 22% have no opinion/do not know.      
The poll is based on telephone interviews conducted in the evenings of February 5-7, 2018, interviewing 1,012 people residing in Taipei and aged 18 or older. The telephone numbers are randomly selected from residential numbers in Taipei City. The margin of sampling error is ±3.08% with a 95% confidence level.