Data envelopment analysis efficiency of public servicesbootstrap simultaneous confidence region

  1. Jesús A. Tapia 1
  2. Bonifacio Salvador 1
  3. Jesús M. Rodríguez 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

  2. 2 Junta de Castilla y León
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    Junta de Castilla y León

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02s8dab97

Revista:
Sort: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions

ISSN: 1696-2281

Año de publicación: 2019

Volumen: 43

Número: 2

Páginas: 337-354

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Sort: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions

Resumen

Public services, such as higher education, medical services, libraries or public administration offices, provide services to their customers. To obtain opinion-satisfaction indices of customers, it would be necessary to survey all the customers of the service (census), which is impossible. What is possible is to estimate the indices by surveying a random customer sample. The efficiency obtained with the classic data envelopment analysis models, considering the opinion indices of the customers of the public service as output data estimated with a user sample, will be an estimation of the obtained efficiency if the census is available. This paper proposes a bootstrap methodology to build a confidence region to simultaneously estimate the population data envelopment analysis efficiency score vector of a set of public service-producing units, with a fixed confidence level and using deterministic input data and estimated customer opinion indices as output data. The usefulness of the result is illustrated by describing a case study comparing the efficiency of libraries.

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