This research analyzed the educational efficiency of the educational Federal Units (FU) in Brazil, linking the performance of institutions of Basic Education institutions with the quality achieved by Higher education institutions. Furthermore, this research also investigated at which level of Basic Education more efforts should be allocated more efforts to improve the educational efficiency of each FU. The educational efficiency was measured considering the relationship between the index of quality in Higher Education (product) and the performance of basic education (inputs). The performance of basic education considered the Index of Basic Education Development (Ideb) and the performance of Higher Education was determined by the General Index of Courses (IGC). A technique called Data Envelopment Analysis was used to identify the most efficient FUs and to set the goals of the least efficient. The results also indicated that, in general, the early years of Basic Education deserve greater attention by managers and political leaders.
Basic education; Higher education; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency of education
