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Table 2 Distribution of efficiency score of cocoa production in Ghana

From: Do farm-level technical efficiency and welfare complement each other? Insight from Ghana’s cocoa industry

Efficiency range

OTE

PTE

SE

Freq.

%

Freq.

%

Freq.

%

20–30%

194

38.416

26

5.149

105

20.792

31–40

63

12.475

37

7.327

44

8.713

41–50

68

13.465

40

7.921

49

9.703

51–60

51

10.099

53

10.495

45

8.911

61–70

36

7.129

41

8.119

55

10.891

71–80

26

5.149

31

6.139

70

13.861

81–90

20

3.960

28

5.545

44

8.713

> 90 < 100

18

3.564

39

7.723

56

11.089

Efficient (= 100)

29

5.7426

210

41.5842

37

7.327

Efficiency measures

 Mean score

 

0.444

 

0.767

 

0.584

 Standard deviation

 

0.261

 

0.257

 

0.273

 Minimum

 

0.054

 

0.206

 

0.058

 Maximum

 

1

 

1

 

1

 Mean inefficiency

 

0.556

 

0.233

 

0.416

 Efficiency interval

 

(0.183; 0.705)

 

(0.510; 1.024)

 

(0.311; 0.87)

Return-to-scale (%)

 Increasing RTS

68.713

     

 Decreasing RTS

24.951

     

 Constant RTS

6.337

     
  1. OTE, PTE and SE denote overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency, respectively