한국지방행정연구원

The Korea Local Administration Review

Year
2016-03
Author
Jung, Jae-Myung

An Analysis on the Efficiency of 69 District Offices in 7 Metropolitan Governments

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This research aims to measure the efficiency of 69 district offices in 7Metropolitan governments of 2013 year and further evaluate their productivitygrowth during the period of 2008-2013, using the Super EfficiencyMeasure(SEM) and Malmquist Productivity Index(MPI). The results show thatthe average efficiency score of the 69 district offices is 1.2072; and the mostefficient district offices among them are the Busan and Seoul Jung-gu DistrictOffices. The number of the district offices to be included to Increasing Returnto Scale(IRS) is 28(40.6%) of the 69 district offices; whereas the number ofDecreasing Return to Scale(DRS) is 41 district offices. Second, according tothis research, the annual productivity of the 69 district offices increased 0.69%.The efficiency of the annual technological change, SE, and PTE was stablewithout any change. Furthermore, 18 district offices increased in MPI; whereas23 decreased.
□ Key Word: District Office, Administrative Service, SEM, MPI