Productivity and efficiency of central government departments: a mixed-effect model applied to Dutch data in the period 2012-2019

Blank, Jos L. T. ; van Heezik, Alex A. S.; Blank, Bas

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Productivity and efficiency of central government departments: a mixed-effect model applied to Dutch data in the period 2012-2019

Jos L. T. Blank*

Alex A. S. van Heezik *

Bas Blank*

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Table 1
Statistical description of CGDs data, 2012-2019

Variable	Average	Std. dev.	Min.	Max.
Means
Total costs	240.38	134.81	28.92	553.78
Personnel costs	158.01	84.35	16.11	358.78
Cost of material	82.36	54.31	8.94	203.46
Production
Documents	403.19	226.24	22.00	892.00
Parliamentary questions	307.16	226.86	5.00	954.00
Program expenditures	13,507.29	11,523.06	27.08	42,921.50
Efficiency determinants
Share of women	48.77	9.53	22.41	62.03
Share of top positions	8.09	2.83	2.23	15.83
Share of women in top positions	31.37	10.79	8.67	50.75
Share of support staff	31.93	10.32	18.16	57.84
Absenteeism by reason of illness	4.02	0.78	1.89	5.56
Average age of employees	46.14	1.35	42.90	48.56
Entrance ratio	9.68	4.21	2.08	23.93
Exit ratio	9.92	2.51	5.30	17.04
Working time factor	94.82	1.05	92.61	96.83
Share of external staff	8.38	4.91	1.76	21.12
Cost share of material	33.16	6.66	18.84	56.00

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