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Table 5 Results of SFA analysis

From: The relative efficiency of Iranian’s rural traffic police: a three-stage DEA model

Natural logarithm of variables

Coefficient correlation

Standard error

CI (0.95)

Freeway/highway

- 0.04**

0.01

−0.07

−0.02

One-way main roads

0.03*

0.01

0.01

0.05

Two-way main roads

Due to correlation with One-way main road it has been excluded.

By roads

0.03*

0.01

0.01

0.05

Ratio of main road to total roads

0.03

0.01

−0.01

0.06

Young population

0.01

0.02

−0.04

0.04

Traffic count

0.19**

0.02

0.16

0.23

Literacy rate

−0.79*

0.37

−1.52

−0.05

Number of households owning motorcycle

0.08**

0.02

0.05

0.12

Proportion of household owning car

0.13

0.10

−0.06

0.33

Constant coefficient

1.93

1.39

−0.80

4.66

Mu

−2.07

145.55

−287.35

283.21

Ln sig2

−3.01

3.04

−8.98

2.96

Ilgtgamma

−2.65

46.09

−92.99

87.70

Sigma2

0.05

0.15

0.01

19.25

Gamma

0.06

2.84

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Sigma υ 2

0.01

0.15

−0.29

0.30

Sigma ν 2

0.04

0.01

0.04

0.05

  1. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001