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In Table 4, it is notable that the list with the lowest scores includes only rural health centres, whereas the list with the high technical efficiency (TE) scores includes hospitals, urban and rural health centres.
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The proportion of higher technical efficiency scores also significantly changed over the years.
Except for a very small negative impact in 2006, those households with a higher proportion of rice income usually reached higher technical efficiency levels.
While Chang and Wen ([2011]) reported that off-farm work is not necessarily associated with lower (or higher) technical efficiency, they noted that farmers with off-farm work face higher production risk.
Similarly, households with improved lives in general had higher technical efficiency scores, however, the impact of this did not manifest itself very often, in this case only in 2008.
While the education level and age of the household head had no or very little impact, the ethnicity of the head reflected the higher technical efficiency of the Kinh people when compared to the other ethnic minority groups.
IKA primary care centers exhibited 7.4%too 20.4% (by catchment population) higher technical efficiency than NHS health centers, and 3.4% to 8.0% higher scale efficiency (in small- and medium-sized facilities respectively).
On the other hand, households with both a wife and husband present had significantly higher technical efficiencies scores when compared to other married statuses.
The ports located at the lower-right part of the graph have high pure technical efficiency but relatively low (compared to the average value) scale efficiency.
Depending on the estimation approach and choice of variables, however, the US does rank high in technical efficiency.
Since the quasi-government hospitals have the highest average technical efficiency scores, it is not surprising they have the highest proportion of hospitals on the frontier.
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