The Efficiency of Economic Performance, Electricity Consumption, and Environmental Pollutants in Taiwan

Table 1

Definitions of variables.

Variable		Definition
Input	Labor	Above fifteen-year-old paid worker or engaged in unpaid family work for more than 15 hours (unit: person)
	Motor vehicle number	Number of motor vehicles with uniform licenses to the supervision authorities at the end of the year (unit: vehicle)
	Electricity consumption	Electricity sold to the service industry, government schools, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and industrial sales (unit: degree)
Desirable output	Average disposable income	Disposable income/total number of households (unit: NT$)
Undesirable output	Suspended particulate emissions	Total emissions of suspended particulates (PM2.5) (unit: metric tons)
	NOx emissions	Total emissions of nitrogen oxides (including nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide) (unit: metric tons)
	Sulfur oxide emissions	Total emissions of sulfur oxides (including sulfur dioxide) (unit: metric tons)
Carry-over	Fixed assets	The amount of fixed assets newly added by the factory in normal operations, including equipment investment (antipollution equipment, machinery and equipment, transportation vehicles, and other equipment), land acquisition, dormitory, factory warehouse office, and other construction projects (unit: NT$1,000)