Marriage, household formation and social mobility in colonial Taiwan: A new occupational database for Taiwanese family history.

Taiwanese family history during the Japanese colonial time has been studied with various aspects. The relationship between marriage and social mobility is one of them and faced a technical perplexity for a long time. The occupational information was mixed trades and occupations on household registers. Moreover, the transformation between occupation and social class was simply divided into three classes in the past studies. In this paper, we utilize the information from household registers and Taiwanese Historical Information of Social Class and Occupations Database (THISCO) which is established based on LinShi Taiwan HuKou DiaoCha ZhiYe MingZiHui (臨時臺灣戶口調查職業名字彙, Collection of occupational titles from the 1905 Provisional Household Census of Taiwan) and referred to HISCO (Historical international classification of occupations) and HISCOM (World Historical Class Scheme). In this case, we can analyze the people behavior by individual and universal social class standard.