By the SDs of TE scores of eastern, central and western 211Us, their differences
are not obvious. The SD of eastern 211Us is slightly lower than that of the central
or western 211Us, reflecting that the differences on research efficiency among
eastern 211Us are smaller than those of central or western 211Us.
4.2.8 HSS Disciplines.................................
The previous paragraphs presented the regional comparative analysis on the NEAM
disciplines, this subsection will show the results of HSS disciplines. Similar with
NEAM disciplines, we aggregate the data by university locations, and compare the
differences between the eastern, central and western 211Us, based on the full
sample results of HSS research efficiency.
Table4.18presents the numbers and proportions of DEA-efficient units by
university location. It can be known from Table4.18, the number of DEA-efficient
units in eastern 211Us reaches maximum value 4 in 2007. The proportion of
DEA-efficient units in eastern 211Us is 7% in 2007, and stay around 3–5% in other
years. Inside eastern 211Us, the proportion (and also the number) of DEA-efficient
units in HSZUs is zero, and the proportion of efficient units in JUs or HSZUs is
merely 6–8%. The DEA-efficient proportion of central 211Us reaches its minimum
4% in 2006, then rises to and stays at 9% in the rest four years. The DEA-efficient
proportion of western 211Us reaches maximum 9% in 2009, but stays at a low level
in other years. It can be seen from thefive-year means in the last column, the
DEA-efficient proportion is very low in each region, with no one larger than 8%.
Compared with production frontier of the full sample, the efficient proportion of
central 211Us is larger than that of eastern or western 211Us, and that of western
211Us is lower than that of eastern 211Us. It’s worth to notice that there is no
DEA-efficient university in HSZUs belonging to eastern 211Us.
Fig. 4.8 Change of TE for
NEAM disciplines by
university location (2006–
2010)
134 4 Evaluation on Research Efficiency of 211Us: The DEA Approach