| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 103 === The aim of the study was to explore Socio-demographic analysis of participation in adult learning in Taiwan and Fukien . To accomplish the aim, “Secondary Data Analysis” was used in the study with the statistic of adult education in Taiwan and Fukien in 2008 as the original data. The study tried to understand the difference in the willing to participate adult learning in Taiwan and Fukien by Socio-demographic variables, including different group of socio-demographic background, which were gender, generation, stratum of society, urban-rural and so on.
The conclusion of this study as following shows,
1. The rate of participation of adult learning in Taiwan and Fukien was 29.1% in 2008, both formal and non-formal learning activities included. Otherwise, the informal learning, such as reading informative books and magazines, watching television programs and listening to the radio takes around 7.46 hours per week in average. Among participating informal learning more than 11 hours per week in average, the more hours they participated in informal learning, the lower rates they participated in formal and non-formal learning activities.
2. Participation in formal and non-formal learning activities varied by different Socio-demographic groups. The participating rate of female was 32.5%, obviously higher than male 25.7%; the rate of generation x was 35.2%, which was the highest among other generations; the rate of Participation in metro area was 34.5% which was highest than other area; the rate of upper class in society was 58.7%, which was the highest class as well.
3. Participation in informal learning activities varied by different Socio-demographic groups. The average hours of reading informative books and magazines, watching the television programs and listening to the radio by the late-life generation was lower than the generation y, the generation x and the baby boomers. The adults who lived in metro area, urban industrial and commercial area listening to the radio was more than elderly-remote towns. The Adults who lived in metro area and urban industrial and commercial area participating in informal learning, including reading informative books and magazines, watching the television programs and listening to the radio, the average hour was longer than adults who lived in new town, traditional industrial town, lower development of township and elderly-remote towns. The average hours of upper class in society participated informal learning,including reading informative books and magazines, watching the television programs and listening to the radio was longer than middle classes and the lower classes in society.
4. The odds ratio of participation of upper class in the late-life generation was longer than middle class in the generation x and the baby boomers. The average hour of male living in metro area participating in informal learning was the highest among other areas. The male from baby boomers participated in informal learning more than other generations and groups.The average hours of learning through informal activities- informative magazines, radio, TV programs, of the male lived in downtown were longer than both males and females from other areas.
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