Data mining in local government performance evaluation: A way to get out of the action plights and deadlocks in China

Abstract

We first reviewed all Chinese local government performance evaluation forms to find that there came across a deadlock in the practice of evaluation. We discovered because the present performance evaluation cannot deal with the quality and quantity, certainty and uncertainty well, they have caused some deadlocks. In order to get out of the deadlocks, we use data mining as a tool to establish the government performance evaluation datahouses based on indicator data market, capacity data market, local resource data market, etc. Eventually, we solve the problems by mining the evaluation data and mining the related data on the basis of the datahouses. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.