Data Envelopment Analysis to generate TFP with macro level panel data

[Vip Wick]

Hi, I'm relatively new to stata and struggling with the dea (data envelopment analysis) command.
My questions are 1. how to specify input and output variables before running the dea command.
2. Can the dea command be used to generate TFP for country level data. What I see is mostly the dea is applied for firm level micro data.

[Phil Bromiley]

You didn't get a quick answer. You'll increase your chances of a helpful answer by following the FAQ on asking questions - provide Stata code in code delimiters, readable Stata output, and sample data using dataex. Asking how to specify variables makes it seem like you haven't read the documentation.

Have you carefully read and reread the documentation and https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf...867X1001000207 ?

The documentation for dea an example.

With a user-written routine, assistance depends on someone on the list serve happening to use that routine. You may need to contact the programs authors.

Whether such analysis is meaningful at the country level is a matter of substance as much as technique.