Eficiência relativa das unidades federativas do Brasil no combate ao número de óbitos causados pela COVID-19: uma aplicação da análise envoltória de dados

Abstract

The objective of this work is measure the scores of relative efficiency in the federative units of Brazil in the fight against the deaths caused by Covid-19. To achieve such goals, the methods were used Data Envelopment Analyscreen (DEA) and Jackstrap. The results obtained using the DEA indicate that in the first period (July/2020), 51% of the federative units in Brazil were inefficient; the average efficiency in the period was 0.8. In the second period (March 2021), 55% were inefficient, with an average efficiency of 0.67. The jackstrap identified that in July 2020 the federative units Pará (PA), Maranhão (MA) and Amazonas (AM) were considered outliers, therefore, they were removed from the sample; the average efficiency was 0.87. In relation to March 2021, Maranhão (MA), Pará (PA) and Sergipe (SE) were classified as outliers, thus, removed from the sample; the average efficiency was 0.71.