... Wang, F C 1993 "Causes and Patterns of Ethnic Intermarriage among the Hokkien, Hakka, and Mainlanders in Postwar Taiwan: A Preliminary Examination." Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia ... data Because of a dramatic decline in total fertility in Taiwan and the expectation of a rapid transformation in age structure, more surveys regarding the health and living status of the island's ... further evaluate the dynamic thesis of selfrated health From Table we see that, again, self-rated health is a significant predictor of mortality for the total sample and for both the Taiwanese and...