本文的目的係在討臺灣地區從民65年以來家戶福利水準的狀沿與變動趨勢，並按居住地區、戶內人口數、戶長職聯、教育水準與年齡分類後比較家戶的福利水準。福利水準的指標由總合近似理想需求體系的間托效用函數推估之，該函數的總支出額須經等成員人校正。實証結獰完全基於歷年家庭收支調查的每一戶樣本資料。就全社會平均而言，福利水準指數由民65年的1.989穩定地上升到民79年的2.807，各類家戶福利水準的比較，都市家戶福水準最高，一人家戶最低，戶長年齡在45-54歲的家戶曘高，65歲以上戶最低，非農業家戶夜高。另，戶長教育水準較長者，其福利水準亦是較高。

　　　　　The purpose of this paper is to study the situation and trend of household welfare and the difference of household welfare categorized by residence, family size, occupation, education and age of household heads in Taiwan from 1976. the indicators have been derived from the indirect utility function of the Aggregate Almost Ideal Demand System in which the total expenditure of household is corrected by general equivalence scales. The empirical results were completely based on every sample of the annual family survey data. The index of household welfare in Taiwan steadily rose from 1.989 in 1976 to 2.807 in 1990. The comparisons among the categorized households were briefly shown in the following: The welfare of city households was highest; one-person households lowest; households with age 45-54 of head highest; households with the head aged over lowest; nonfarm households higher. And the longer education of household heads, the higher household welfare is.