臺灣廿三縣市日治時期人口統計之建立：1897-1943
摘要
Taiwan was a colony of Japan from 1986 through 1945. It has been transforming into a democratic nation after WWII. Consistent statistics on Taiwan's population for the 20th century are unconceivable due to two distinct political regimes using different jurisdiction categories, each of which contains different geographical areas as well as different numbers of lower tiers. The difficulties in integrating the pre-war and post-war sets of data into a single system are tedious and formidable. Yet integrated population statistics at the sub-provincial layer across two regimes have been advanced in this work. By carefully and appropriately converting the geographical area associated with the population of every local jurisdiction during the period of Japanese governance into the current categories of administrative jurisdiction, we offer the possibility of setting up a century long set of population statistics. The results will facilitate a number of long term studies on Taiwan in the future.