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KMID : 1023720130600010055
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2013 Volume.60 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.75
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Analysis of the Efficiency of Senior Welfare Centers in Different Regions by DEA Model
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Kim Keum-Hwan
Kim Youn-Jae
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Abstract
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There is an increase in the budget for the elderly and the number of senior welfare centers in today`s aging society, and 3,770 people engage in senior social welfare in 281 senior welfare centers that are quasi- public institutions. It`s urgently required to find out what causes individual disparities and regional divide among senior welfare centers in welfare services, and a variety of reform measures should be taken to get rid of the gaps among senior welfare centers, to redress their operating inefficiency and ultimately to bolster their operating efficiency. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficiency of senior welfare centers. The evaluation data released by the Ministry of Health & Welfare and the Korea National Council on Social Welfare were analyzed by DEA, which is one of nonparametric statistics, and it was possible to obtain significant results on the regional operating efficiency of social welfare centers in 14 metropolitan cities and provinces, the causes and degree of their inefficiency and what areas one could refer to. As the data for the metropolitan cities and provinces were utilized in this study, it`s not quite possible to produce accurate results on the relative efficiency of senior welfare centers, but this study could be said to be of significance in that it suggested how to evaluate the overall operating efficiency of senior welfare centers in the metropolitan cities and provinces involving the degree of their operating inefficiency, what improvements should be made and what reference groups there might be and provided information on the usefulness of the DEA model.
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KEYWORD
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senior welfare centers, efficiency, DEA, data envelop analysis
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