China has long faced the exponential increase of wastewater. Therefore, sludge as the byproduct of wastewater treatment is a worldwide and difficult problem to treat and dispose. Many cities in China are trying to find an appropriate method of achieving this. However, due to a lack of funding, technology and research, some methods suitable for local conditions are still not available, even in the most modern and biggest cities in China. This thesis is intended to describe the method used for the treatment and disposal of sludge from industries now in Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing. Compared with these three cities, Beijing produces more sludge per day, while Shanghai has the least sludge production. Further, the industrial waste piping system is not separated from the domestic system in these three cities. Moreover, the percentage of treated sludge is still very low in Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing. Among these three cities, even the highest treatment rate of sludge is 35.41% (Beijing). The lowest is only 10.08% (Chongqing). Considering that much more sludge will be produced in the next a few years, the current situation in these three cities presents a stern challenge. Also, a calculation about the cost of disposal of sludge in these cities is included in this thesis. Incineration is most expensive method of disposal of sludge in China, while composting is the cheapest. Considering the huge population, the current technology and the economic conditions in China, composting is the best option for the disposal of sludge.

The Environmental Protection Administration of Executive Yuan has been promoting the environmental protection policy for years, hoping to achieve the goal of ¡§zero waste¡¨ and meet the international environmental standard by executing source minimization and resource recycling. The study aims to investigate the causality between the disbursement incurred from waste management and the effectiveness of control measures of the 22 Taiwan¡¦s administrative regions from 2001 to 2010; variables of the examination are, disbursement incurred from waste management , disposal or treatment rate of municipal waste, and recycling rate of enforcement authority. After the gathering of data, the Granger test is conducted to determine the causality. Given that the data of disbursement incurred from waste management is hard to gather and the details of the actual disbursement of the evaluation indices are impossible to separate, the study postulates that, with consideration of the consistency and continuity of the budgeting process and the massive accident, all the disbursement incurred from waste management is used for the said purpose. The result of the empirical research indicates that disposal or treatment rate of municipal waste and disbursement incurred from waste management are not causally related. In the Granger test, the correlation between disbursement incurred from waste management and recycling rate of enforcement authority are significant at the 0.01 level; the correlation between recycling rate of enforcement authority and disbursement incurred from waste management are significant at the 0.1 level. Therefore, the ¡§Zero Waste¡¨ and ¡§source minimization and resource recycling¡¨ policy promoted by the Administration is effective in reducing the disbursement incurred from waste management. If we adhere to the environmental policy, we can not only improve the environmental health and life quality, but also be able to reduce the expense of waste management and invest the resource on other departments to achieve the effect of protecting the environment while maintaining economic growth.

疾病就診率係針對固定期問內，患有疾病而到全民健康保險特約之各級醫療院所就診之人數予以統計，其分析可供規劃醫療保健服務與修訂全民健保制度之參據，因此應成為經常性之統計工作。本文以適合連續性調查的輪換抽樣設計為原則，運用調查當期及較早期之資訊以建搆複合估計式，並推導該估計式之期望值與變異數，據以此比較與簡單估計式之相對效率。為評估複合估計方法運用於疾病就診率之效益，遂選定某些疾病進行分析，並研究在何種權數組合下，複合估計式能減低變動情形及其相對效率。 關鍵字：疾病就診率、輪換抽樣法、複合估計式、相對效率 / The treatment rate is a statistical analysis of numbers of people who had taken treatment in the fixed period. It can be a reference of planning medical service, revising medical laws and so on. So its analysis is important and should be an occasionally statistical work. In this paper, we adopt rotation sampling method, combine current and earlier information to construct composite estimator, and derive its expected value and variance formula, so as to compare with simple estimator. To evaluate the benefit of adopting composite estimator on the treatment rate, we choose some diseases as objectives, and determine the optimal weighted parameter so that composite estimator can reduce the variance and its effects on the relative efficiency. Key words: treatment rate, rotation sampling, composite estimator, relative efficiency