Research

National Taiwan University Websurvey, NTUWS

The National Taiwan University Websurvey (NTUWS) is an online survey platform funded by the National Science and Technology Council. It was founded and is directed by Professor Yu-tzung Chang (Department of Political Science, NTU), with more than ten social scientists taking part, including Professor Joseph Tao-yi Wang (Department of Economics, NTU) and Professor Hans Hanpu Tung (Department of Political Science, NTU). The platform went live in July 2021 and now has more than 50,000 registered members. It provides Taiwan's social-science community with a sample pool for survey experiments and thus a data source for testing causal claims. Since its launch it has run over a hundred survey projects commissioned by universities across Taiwan, Academia Sinica and international research teams.

The platform follows an online-first, or push-to-web, survey design. Respondents first register as members; researchers then draw stratified random samples by member attributes and field their questionnaires or experiments. Calls for survey projects are open to all. See the project website for proposal submission, survey fees and the review process.

Visit websurvey.coss.ntu.edu.tw ↗

Asian Barometer Survey, ABS

The Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) is an applied research programme on public opinion on political values, democracy and governance across Asia. It brings together scholars from Taiwan and abroad with experience in cross-national comparative surveys. Under an integrated research framework and standardized survey procedures, it studies socio-economic modernization, regime transition and democratization, and the change of political values across East Asia. Begun in 2001, the survey uses nationwide probability samples and face-to-face interviews. Seven waves have been conducted, covering 18 countries and territories: Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Australia. The Center releases the data at regular intervals for scholars around the world to apply for and use.

ABS is also a member of the Global Barometer Surveys (GBS). GBS integrates five regional surveys, covering Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Arab world and Eurasia, in more than 90 countries. The Center serves as its coordinating hub and works with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International IDEA and other institutions to build regular indicators of democratic development and the quality of governance worldwide.

Visit www.asianbarometer.org ↗

Asian Barometer Survey Explorer

The Asian Barometer Survey Explorer is an online analysis tool built by the Center. It brings ABS Waves 1–6, 18 countries and territories, 201 core questions and nearly 120,000 interviews into a form that can be queried directly in the browser.

The platform can be used in two ways. In the Analysis Workbench, users choose a question from 14 topics, then the countries and waves, and receive the frequency distribution and percentages for each response option, or summary statistics such as the mean and standard deviation, broken down by country, by wave, or by country and wave, and shown as charts and tables. In Conversational Analysis, users ask a question in English, Chinese or another language; the analysis assistant first turns it into an explicit question, scope and statistic, then computes the answer from the data.

The platform presents pre-aggregated statistics and contains no individual-level raw data. To obtain raw data, please apply through the Asian Barometer Survey website.

Visit hufucenter.ntu.edu.tw/abs-explorer ↗