Taiwan Institute for Governance and Communication Research (TIGCR) held the 2nd Team Member Meeting on Dec 8^th. In this meeting, we presented the work results in the first semester and propagated the regulations of TIGCR to the members. During the meeting, Professor Lin Jih-Hsuan, Professor Lin Jhih-Syuan and Professor Lin, Trisha Tsui-Chuan received the Publishing Awards.

The first wave of face-to-face panel interviews (TGC2018) of Taiwan Governance and Communication, a collaboration of the TIGCR and the Center for Survey Research at Academia Sinica, has been underway since July 9th of this year. The TIGCR is handling the four cities of Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, and Taoyuan; Yilan; and the Hualien-Taitung area. The Center for Survey Research is focusing on Hsinchu and Miaoli; Taichung, Changhua, and Nantou; Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan as well as the Kaohsiung-Pingtung survey area. Households through Taiwan are being selected using address-based sampling.