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Due to the rapid development in both economy and society in recent years, national income has been growing incessantly. Fueling with the prevalence of education, people on Taiwan, in additional for pursuing for material life, have turned their emphasis on recreational and leisure activities. In January, 1998, Bureau of Personnel Affairs, Executive Yuan announced 5-working- day-week, the working time and leisure pattern changed drastically, leaving lot more time for free use for people here. Under the circumstance of changed concept on leisure and traveling and increased disposable time, it is increasingly important to find out how the public perceive about the leisure and recreational activities. This research based the 2000 Family Income / Expenditure Survey Conducted by Statistics Division of Taipei City Government as the main source of data and information. The research structure is from the socioeconomic characteristics of economic house-master (such as gender, education background, occupation, line of business), Family situation (size of family, form of organization, with or without child) and family economic situation (family disposable income) to individually investigate the family factors that affect family leisure consumption expenditure, domestic traveling expenditure and overseas traveling expenditure. Cross interrelationship, Auto-Interact Examination, Tree Type categorized regression and logic regression analysis are employed as the methods of research to find out the major structure, attributes interactive, structural feature and variables composition. The empirical result indicate position relationship to the family spending capacity, the disposable income, education background of economic house master and district stayed. It indicate the economic feature of a family is still the most important factor affecting leisure consumption. In addition to understand the affecting factors, we has make suggestion on structure of family leisure consumption expenditure, domestic traveling consumption expenditure and overseas traveling consumption expenditure, so that it may give light to the decision makers to planned for a leisure activities that suitable for all nationals.
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