Background and Abbreviations
- The Yearbook is compiled in accordance with the Statistic Law and its enforcement rules. The Yearbook is completed pursuant to an expansion of Taiwan Food Balance Sheet.
- The area covered for information contained in the Yearbook is Taiwan Region (including Taiwan Province, Taipei and Kaohsiung Municipality).
- Unless otherwise indicated, the specific reference period shown is from January 1 to December 31 of the current year for the information obtained, processed and analyzed.
- There might be some inconsistency in aggregation of detailed numbers and the total in the Yearbook due to the rounding up of the decimal fractions.
- The measurement units in the Yearbook are based upon the metric system.
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Symbols adopted by the Yearbook are as follows:
ｐ: stands for the preliminary statistic number
ｆ: stands for the forecasted number
ｒ: stands for the revised number
ｅ: stands for the estimated number
－: stands for no numeric value available
…: stands for unclear numeric value or no information available
０: stands for a numeric value less than half a unit
