L’ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE EN ALGÉRIE : INEFFICIENCE TECHNIQUE, INEFFICIENCE D’ÉCHELLE ET IMPACT DU MILIEU SOCIOÉCONOMIQUE

Abstract

Regional disparities related to the success in the baccalauréat exam are considered important in Algeria. The present study aims to measure the relative inefficiency of the 50 Educational districts "Directions d'Education de Wilaya" (DEW) at the secondary education level using Data Envelopment Analysis approach (DEA). Although the empirical results show that the operation of these institutions is characterized by a high level of overall inefficiency of the order of 24.5% on average, pure technical inefficiency represents only 8% on average while the remaining 16.5% are attributable to diseconomies of scale and to adverse socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.