Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluating Elderly Social Welfare Performance
Autori:
Suh Chen HSIAO, Luke HSIAO
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 83-94
How to cite this article:Hsiao, S.C., Hsiao, L. (2015). Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluating Elderly Social Welfare Performance. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 48, 83-94. |
Abstract:
The constant development of economic societies allows the elderly enjoying
certain social security and increasing the demands for the social welfare of health,
medical treatment, public health, and society management; and, the government
therefore has declared for reinforcing the social welfare as the key administration.
With the increasing expenses but decreasing incomes, the social welfare budget is
still increasing. Under the restricted resources, allocation becomes a major challenge
for the governmental administration. Modified Delphi Method is utilized
in this study for screening the input/output factors. Total 30 copies of questionnaires
are distributed, and 22 are effectively responded, with the response rate
73%. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to evaluating the efficiency.
The variable data used in this study are open statistical data from Ministry of
Interior. The research results show 3 DMUs with strong-form efficiency in the
practice of elderly social welfare (efficiency=1), about 15% of all DMUs, revealing
the favorable elderly social welfare efficiency; another 3 DMUs present
marginal inefficient in the practice of elderly social welfare (0.9
Keywords:
social welfare, elderly society, organizational performance, efficiency evaluation, capacity.
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