Measuring special provincial administrations efficiency performance by data envelopment analysis

Local governments with certain scales are obliged to use performance based strategic management in Turkey. This study measures performance of special provincial administrations by using data envelopment analysis for 2007. 81 Provinces? data are examined within three groups. 14 Metropolitan provinces study shows that the most successfull administration is Konya, while Erzincan is the most successfull in 64 standart provinces and Afyon is found the most effective adminastrion in 14 metropolitan + 64 standart provinces. Based on the findings some suggestions are made to improve for the least effective administrations.