The Environmental Protection Administration held this survey during Feb. 25, 2005 to Oct. 15, 2005 in order to learn the current development of the industry and to obtain reference material for the use of further policy making. The range of the survey objects included, nationwide, the pathogen controlling services, waste disposing and collecting services, resource recovery services, wastewater (sewage) treatment services, environment test services, environment (engineering) consultation services, and other sanitary and pollution controlling services which were authorized by and registered at the administration authority before late 2004. 2,728 questionnaires were issued, the return ratio was 71.3%. 
The substantial conclusions obtained after the statistical analysis of the survey results include: Small private enterprises mainly. More than 69% of the relevant services employed less than 24 employees in late 2004. The average employee number of a single enterprise was 9.5. 24,006 employees in late 2004, 11.2% more than in 2003. The waste disposing and collecting services were in first place with an employee number of 8,673 people, i.e. 36.1%. 

The environmental protection industry in 2004 had a total revenue of NTD $71.2 billion; total expenditure of NTD $31.6 billion; and net profit margin rate was 18.6%. The production value of the whole environmental protection industry in 2004 was NTD $52.7 billion. The waste disposing and collecting services had the highest of NTD $23.0 billion, i.e. 44%. 36% of the enterprises in the environmental protection industry considered their operations worse in 2004 than in 2003; 29% considered them better. Expenditures for employee training and research and development in the whole environmental protection industry consisted of less than 1% of either the operation expenditures or the total expenditures. 30% of the enterprises in the environmental protection industry expected to have business growth in 2005.

Environmental Protection Service Industry, Statistic Survey