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

Table 10

Overall score, electricity consumption, motor vehicle emissions, suspended particles emissions, sulfur oxide emissions, nitrogen oxide emissions, and average household disposable income efficiency analysis.

DMU	Overall efficiency	Electricity consumption	Motor vehicles	Suspended particles	SOx	NOx	Average household distributable income
New Taipei City	Dropped from 11^th place in 2013 to 15^th place in 2015	Maintained 12^th or 13^th place	In last place all 4 years (19^th)	7^th in 2012 and 2013 and dropped to 8^th place in 2014 and 2015	10^th in 2012 and 2014 and dropped to 11^th place in 2013 and 2015	10^th in 2012 and 2014 and dropped to 11^th place in 2013 and 2015	14^th in 2012, progressed to 11^th place in 2013, retired to 13^th place in 2014, and regressed to 15^th place in 2015
Taipei City	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years
Taoyuan City	Continued to improve slightly from 10^th in 2012 to 8^th in 2015	Last place in the 4 years (19^th place)	13^th place in the 4 years	12^th in 2012 and 2013 and progressed to 10^th place in 2014 and 2015	15^th in 2012 and 2015 and progressed to 14^th in 2013 and 2014	14^th in 2012 and regressed to 15^th place in 2013, 2014, and 2015	10^th place in 2012, progressed to 7^th place in 2013 and regressed to 8^th place in 2014 and 2015
Taichung City	Continued improving from 17^th in 2012 to 13^th in 2015	4^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015	16^th in 2012 and 2013 and to 17^th place in 2014 and 2015	15^th place in the 4 years	16^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and progressed to 15^th in 2014	15^th place in 2012, while 2013, 2014, and 2015 all regressed to 16^th place	17^th in 2012 (3^rd last), progressed to 12^th place in 2013 and 2014, and regressed to 13^th place in 2015
Tainan City	Last place in 2012, 2014, and 2015	Third to last place in 2012, 2013, and 2014 and second to last in 2015	15^th in the 4 years	11^th in 2012 and 2013 and 12^th in 2014 and 2015	12^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and 11^th in 2014	8^th place in 2012, 10^th place in 2013, and 9^th place in 2014 and 2015	Last (19^th place) in 2012, 2014, and 2015 and 17^th in 2013
Kaohsiung City	In 2013 it slipped from 13^th	Last in 2012, 2013, and 2014 and progressed to third from last in 2015	18^th in the 4 years	18^th in the 4 years	19^th in 2012, 2013 and 2015, progressing to 18^th place in 2014	17^th in 2012 and 2015 and 18^th place in 2013 and 2014	16^th in 2012 and 2015, 13^th in 2013, and 14^th in 2014
Yilan County	Average 6^th place.	14^th in 2012, 2013, and 2014, progressing to 12^th place in 2015	6^th in 2012 and 2013 and 7^th in 2014 and 2015	17^th place in the 4 years	13^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and to 12^th in 2014	13^th in 2012 and 14^th in 2013, 2014, and 2015	Average 7^th place
Hsinchu County	Average 7^th place	1^st place in the 4 years	7^th in 2012 and 2013 and 8^th in 2014 and 2015	6^th place in the 4 years	Average 7^th place	7^th place in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and 11^th place in 2014	6^th in 2012, 2013, and 2014 and 7^th in 2015
Miaoli County	Continued improvement from 11^th in 2012 to 9^th in 2014	Average 13^th place	9^th place in the 4 years	10^th in 2012 and 2013 and 11^th in 2014 and 2015	11^th in 2012, progressed to 9^th in 2013, progressed to 8^th in 2014, and returned to 9^th in 2015	12^th in 2012, while 2013, 2014, and 2015 all regressed to 13^th	Average 10^th place
Changhua County	Second to last place in 2013, 2014, and 2015	1^st in 2013 and 2015, but 11^th in 2012 and 2014	14^th in the 4 years	9^th in 2012, progressed to 8^th in 2013, and progressed to 7^th in 2014 and 2015	9^th in 2012 and 2014, but regressed to 10^th in 2013 and 2015	Last place in 2012 (19^th), progressed to 9^th in 2013, progressed to 8^th in 2014, and backtracked to 10^th in 2015	15^th in 2012, while 2013, 2014, and 2015 all regressed to 18^th
Nantou County	11^th on average	1^st place in the 4 years	10^th in the 4 years	13^th in the 4 years	6^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and progressed to 5^th in 2014	6^th in the 4 years	11^th on average
Yunlin County	17^th on average	1^st place in the 4 years	12^th in the 4 years	14^th in the 4 years	17^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and progressed to 16^th in 2014	16^th in 2012, 17^th in 2013 and 2014, and 18^th in 2015	18^th in 2012, retraced to 19^th (last) in 2013, progressed to 15^th in 2014, and regressed to 17^th in 2015
Chiayi County	12^th on average	1^st place in the 4 years	11^th in 4 years	11^th place in 2012 and 9^th in 2013, 2014, and 2015	14^th on average	11^th in 2012 and 12^th in 2013, 2014, and 2015	12^th in 2012, 15^th in 2013, 17^th in 2014, and 11^th in 2015
Pingtung County	16^th on average	1^st place in the 4 years	17^th in 2012 and 2013 and 16^th in 2014 and 2015	16^th place in the 4 years	7^th in 2012 and 2014 and regressed to 8^th in 2013 and 2015	8^th on average	13^th in 2012, 16^th in 2013 and 2014, and 14^th in 2015
Taitung County	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4	1^st place in the 4	1^st place in the 4	1^st place in the 4	1^st place in the 4
Hualien County	10^th on average	15^th in 2012, 2013, and 2014	8^th in 2012 and 2013 and progressed to 6^th in 2014 and 2015	Last place in the 4 years (19^th)	18^th place in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and 17^th place in 2014	18^th in 2012 and 19^th in 2013, 2014, and 2015	9^th in 2012, 2013, and 2015 and 11^th in 2014
Keelung City	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in 2012, 2013, and 2015, but regressed to 19^th (last) in 2014	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years
Hsinchu City	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years
Chiayi City	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years	1^st place in the 4 years