Exposure to Rural and Urban Living During the Life Course

In both 1963 and 1991, Taiwan's administrative units of villages, towns, and cities, supplemented by the sociological unit, suburbs, can be arranged along a continuum from the most rural to the most urban places:

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Villages Towns Suburbs Cities

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