| 英文摘要 |
The purposes of this survey were to measure the size of the environmental protection service industry.
The population of this survey included all registered pest controllers, waste clean-up and disposal organizations, environmental analysis entities, and environmental (construction) consultation entities which received the related permits for the environmental protection service operation before December 31, 2002.
Questionaires were mailed to all 2,154 environmental protection service entities, and a total of 1,600 questionaires returned. The overall return rate was 74.3%.
The major findings from this survey were summarized as follows:
1.The annual total value of production from the environmental protection service industry was NT $28.9 billions, and average profit rate was 27.8%. The total employment of the environmental protection service industry was 19,149 in 2002.
2.Majority of the entities were private business. Most of the entities were small business with 1 to 5 employees.
3.Overall, the number of male employees was 1.5 times of females. Majority of the employees were 25 to 44 years old and had senior high school education. The employees of the environmental analysis entities and the environmental (construction) consultation entities were younger and higher educated. It showed that these two industries required higher levels of professional skills.
4.The Profit rates were 15.4%, 33.0%, 9.0%, and 17.6% for pest controllers, waste clean-up and disposal organization, environmental analysis entities, and environmental (construction) consultation entities respectively.
5.About 74% of environmental protection service industry organizations used computers for the enterprise operation in 2002. However, only 4% of enterprises had e-commerce, in which the main operation type of e-commerce was for providing business information (such as advertisement, demo).
6.The main difficulties that the environmental protection service industry faced in 2002 were marketing and business expansion, and the restrictions of environmental protection regulations.
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