Quantification of the Efficiency of Public Administration by Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

The issue of public administration effectiveness and its ensuring is increasingly gaining prominence in the macro-economic situation in the euro area. The public sector like the business sector must look for the opportunities to increase its efficiency. There are few ways of efficiency quantification, but considering the comprehensive assessment need of the research problems the most appropriate tool for performance quantification of public administration seems the packaging data analysis−DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). Packaging data analysis as a statistical method is an important tool in public administration officials’ future decision making, rationalization and optimization of public administration performance. The submitted article is focused to the application of DEA method in evaluating the effectiveness of the public administration in Slovakia.