The Technical Efficiency Analysis of Savings Cooperatives Performance in Kalasin Province Applying Data Envelopment Analysis.

Abstract

This research consists purposes were 1. to analyzed the technical efficiency of savings cooperatives in Kalasin province, and 2. recommended the performance efficiency improvement of savings cooperatives in Kalasin province.  The research was applied mixed methods which combined the quantitative and qualitative methodology in this research. The research tools were electronic data spreadsheet and semi-structural interview form. The sample size comprised of 90 samples calculated from Taro Yamane formula (1973) at the 0.10 level of error term. The purposive sampling technique was applied for sample sampling. The secondary data collected from electronic data spreadsheet were analyzed the technical efficiency analysis of savings Cooperatives performance by Data Envelopment Analysis with the technique and procedure of Charnes, A, Cooper, A, Wager, W, & Rhodes, E. (1978), Robin, S., Valentin, Z. (2019). In addition, the primary data collected from semi-structural interview were analyzed by content analysis. The findings were: 1) the results of technical efficiency analysis of 9 savings cooperatives from the year of 2002 to 2021 found that all 6 savings cooperatives had the technical efficiency score of 1.00. This explained that they had their operational perform with the technical efficiency. 3 out of 9 savings cooperatives had the technical efficiency score less than 1.00. They had to improve their operational performance, and 2) 3 savings cooperative who had the technical efficiency score less than 1.00. Kalasin Teacher Savings Cooperatives Ltd. and Kalasin Provincial Police Savings Cooperatives Ltd. had the improvement guidelines to improve their operational performance by reducing of the cooperatives ‘expenditures, the cooperatives ‘debts to meet their performance efficiency. For Kalasin Private School Teacher Savings Cooperative Ltd., the guideline for performance efficiency improvement was increasing the operational factors such as the increasing of cooperatives ‘income, and cooperatives’ operational capitals.