Avaliação da eficiência na administração pública dos municípios cearenses utilizando a análise envoltória de dados.

Abstract

Assessing the efficiency of public administration is an extremely important task for measuring the development of a municipality. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, allows municipal managers to compare the results of their municipality with the others, enabling the improvement of the use of public resources, in order to provide better services for the population, and consequently progress without municipality efficiency index. The purpose of this study is to verify the efficiency of public administration in the municipalities of the state of Ceará in the year 2016. The DEA methodology works from a system of inputs and outputs of the Decision Making Units (DMUs), which are the municipalities of Ceará. The data of the variables belonging to the areas of education, health and income and work, were collected from different databases of the Ceará government and later transformed into values per capita in order to avoid discrepancies related to the population size of the municipalities. The DEA model chosen was the output-oriented BCC, and the software used for the OSDEA-GUI. First, it calculates the standard efficiency indexes, which is the most optimistic and usual approach of the DEA methodology, which produces 65 were efficient out of a total of 182 DMUs. Seeking greater discrimination between DMUs, it was also based on the inverted frontier (pessimistic approach), and of the 65 municipalities considered efficient by standard efficiency, 31 of these were considered "false efficient". In order to relate the standard efficiency and the inverted frontier, the classification of the composite specialty that brings the qualified municipalities provided by the study was finally obtained. In addition to calculating efficiency, it was also possible to identify reference municipalities (those that serve as reference for less efficient municipalities).