金門家庭平均所得全國排名第11

Results for the Survey of Family Income and Expenditure (1), 2009, have been released. It shows that the average household (2) income of Kinmen county ranks 11th out of the 25 counties of Taiwan, and Kinmen's average savings of each household jumped to second place in Taiwan for two consecutive (3) years. Since 2007, in which Kinmen's household income reached 10th place, its total income has steadily maintained this level.
　 金門地區98年家庭收支調查結果出爐，據調查結果顯示，本縣平均每戶家庭所得在全國25個縣市中名列第11位；每戶家庭儲蓄率連續2年躍居全國第2。所得總額從96年排名為第十之後也持續維持在一定的水平。

According to the results, the amount of household disposable (4) income in Kinmen County reached $845,481 NTD in 2009, $54, 344 NTD lower than that in 2008, a drop of 6.04% which brought the county's place down from 10th in the country to 11th. In 2009, the total average consumption expenditures in Kinmen reached $513,017 NTD. This placed Kinmen County 23rd in the nation (in other words, living costs were lower in Kinmen). Kinmen's household savings ranked 2nd in the nation, thus maintaining 3rd or 2nd place nationwide in the past five years.
　 根據調查結果顯示，金門縣每戶家庭可支配所得總額為845,481元，比97年減少54,344元，減少率為6.04%，排名從97年的全國第10位降為第11位。消費支出方面，金門縣98年家戶消費支出為513,017元，全國排名第23位（即消費支出較少）。每戶家庭儲蓄則為全國第二，且近五年來，金門縣平均每戶家庭儲蓄都在全國排名第三或第二。

As for the gap between the rich and the poor, when all households in Kinmen County were divided into 5 groupings according to their average incomes, the disposable income in the top 20% earnings was 6.69 times the lowest 20% in 2009. Compared with the result of 2008, the gap increased only slightly, by 0.09, from 6.60 into 6.69.
　 貧富差距方面，若將金門縣每戶可支配所得高低區分為5組，98年最高20%的家庭可支配所得平均數，與最低20%家庭相比，彼此相差6.69倍，較97年之6.60倍，微幅增加了0.09倍。

【註解】
●1. expenditure-(n)支出；支出額；消費。
●2. household-(adj.)家庭的。亦可當名詞，指家庭；戶；一家人。
●3. consecutive-(adj.)連續不斷的；連貫的。
●4. disposable-(adj.)可支配、自由處理、自由使用的。

本文摘譯、改寫自《金門日報》2010年10月22日報導