Duration of Court Events Required for Litigation – An Empirical Study to Provide a Theoretical Basis for an Objective Measurement System for Judicial Workload

Name of the organizational unit	Valid N	Mean	Confidence –95,000%	Confidence +95,000%	Median	Minimum	Maximum	Lower Quartile	Upper Quartile	Sth.Dev.	Standard Error	Skew-ness	Kurtosis
Sátoraljaújhely District Court	17	11,3814	4,2052	18,5576	6,3182	1,2608	56,9165	3,0542	11,4482	13,9574	3,3852	2,4758	6,9554
Ózd District Court	22	6,3907	3,5609	9,2205	4,2454	1,0841	28,3225	2,2542	7,5216	6,3824	1,3607	2,3306	6,1257
Szerencs District Court	13	6,3832	4,3387	8,4277	6,2253	0,8345	12,4442	5,1358	8,8271	3,3833	0,9384	0,0569	–0,2552
Szikszó District Court	7	15,8837	0,7532	31,0142	8,1104	1,7503	43,5773	5,0633	34,7378	16,3601	6,1835	1,1989	–0,3221
Encs District Court	12	5,7940	2,0428	9,5451	4,1057	0,8752	22,5136	2,1372	6,9630	5,9039	1,7043	2,3346	6,3278
Kazincbarcika District Court	30	9,4608	5,3176	13,6040	5,9392	1,3805	54,1954	3,5021	10,5542	11,0957	2,0258	3,0332	10,0802
Tiszaújváros District Court	18	5,7999	3,0717	8,5281	4,1117	0,7045	18,6588	2,1412	7,3492	5,4861	1,2931	1,4499	1,0213
Mezőkövesd District Court	9	12,9794	2,6120	23,3468	10,2300	0,5022	46,1591	7,4224	13,3427	13,4874	4,4958	2,1562	5,5726
Miskolc District Court	100	12,9096	10,0089	15,8102	8,4959	0,0438	92,9890	4,2595	17,1477	14,6184	1,4618	3,1480	13,1113
Salgótarján District Court	114	9,6178	7,4731	11,7625	6,0906	0,0438	84,8051	3,5479	11,2526	11,5583	1,0825	3,4594	17,0652
Balassagyarmat District Court	140	10,2252	8,2856	12,1648	7,3788	0,0875	79,8467	2,7313	13,1159	11,6072	0,9810	2,8597	11,5436
Pásztó District Court	24	8,4970	3,5454	13,4487	5,7291	0,0438	57,5372	2,3284	8,8281	11,7264	2,3936	3,4548	14,0105
Budapest II. and III. District Court	19	13,2632	7,3289	19,1975	8,4814	1,3277	44,1877	4,4397	18,3782	12,3122	2,8246	1,4022	1,1840
Buda Central District Court	18	8,6796	4,6581	12,7011	6,2827	0,0438	26,8881	3,7288	12,5005	8,0869	1,9061	1,1381	0,4109
Budapest XVIII. and XIX. District Court	11	7,9613	2,6093	13,3133	5,9799	0,3451	27,4502	1,4262	9,9417	7,9666	2,4020	1,6858	3,0425
Budapest IV. and XV. District Court	21	19,0585	–3,4650	41,5820	5,9680	0,4376	231,1443	1,7503	12,6717	49,4810	10,7976	4,3278	19,2998
Budapest XX., XXI. and XXIII. District Court	19	5,6486	1,7240	9,5732	2,7051	0,0438	27,7697	0,7635	6,2475	8,1426	1,8680	2,1474	3,9459
Pest Central District Court	144	11,3928	9,3578	13,4279	7,2579	0,0219	81,0327	2,8124	17,1662	12,3543	1,0295	2,2673	7,6849
Altogether	738	10,5279	9,4937	11,5621	6,4640	0,0219	231,1443	2,9066	12,8627	14,3115	0,5268	6,5537	80,9821

Table 2

Descriptive statistics on working time demand in district courts in the county seats and non-seat district courts, total and by county.

Organi-zational unit	Valid N	Mean	Confidence –95,000%	Confidence +95,000%	Median	Minimum	Maximum	Lower Quartile	Upper Quartile	Sth.Dev.	Standard Error	Skewness	Kurtosis
All seat district courts	384	11,3621	10,0842	12,6401	7,5926	0,0219	92,9890	3,1577	15,0516	12,7365	0,6500	2,8027	11,3117
Other district courts	354	9,6230	7,9701	11,2758	5,7186	0,0438	231,1443	2,7540	10,9526	15,8126	0,8404	8,6451	110,7650
Miskolc District Court	100	12,9096	10,0089	15,8102	8,4959	0,0438	92,9890	4,2595	17,1477	14,6184	1,4618	3,1480	13,1113
Other district courts in BAZ county	128	8,6157	6,8639	10,3676	5,1996	0,5022	56,9165	2,9918	10,0717	10,0161	0,8853	2,8638	9,2572
Balassagyarmat District Court	140	10,2252	8,2856	12,1648	7,3788	0,0875	79,8467	2,7313	13,1159	11,6072	0,9810	2,8597	11,5436
Other district courts in Nógrád county	138	9,4229	7,4783	11,3675	6,0562	0,0438	84,8051	2,8147	10,9781	11,5524	0,9834	3,4132	15,9516
Pest Central District Court	144	11,3928	9,3578	13,4279	7,2579	0,0219	81,0327	2,8124	17,1662	12,3543	1,0295	2,2673	7,6849
Other district courts in Budapest	88	11,4018	5,9868	16,8168	5,7987	0,0438	231,1443	1,5540	12,4490	25,5571	2,7244	7,5201	64,2798

Table 3

Results of the Mann-Whitney test for comparing working time data of district courts in the county seats and non-seat district courts in total and by county.

Organizational unit	Rank Sum (other district courts)	Rank Sum (seat district courts)	U	Z	p-level	Z adjusted	p-level	Valid N (other district courts)	Valid N (seat district courts)
All district courts	122622,5	150068,5	59787,5	–2,8274	0,0047	–2,8274	0,0047	354	384
BAZ county	13112	12994,0	4856,0	–3,1240	0,0018	–3,1240	0,0018	128	100
Nógrád county	18735	20046,0	9144,0	–0,7699	0,4414	–0,7699	0,4414	138	140
Budapest	9502,5	17525,5	5586,5	–1,5110	0,1308	–1,5110	0,1308	88	144

Table 4

Descriptive statistics on working time demand in each county.

County	Valid N	Mean	Confidence –95,000%	Confidence +95,000%	Median	Minimum	Maximum	Lower Quartile	Upper Quartile	Sth.Dev.	Standard Error	Skewness	Kurtosis
BAZ county	228	10,4990	8,8801	12,1178	6,4870	0,0438	92,9890	3,5493	12,8299	12,4051	0,8215	3,2487	14,4350
Nógrád county	278	9,8269	8,4614	11,1925	6,5081	0,0438	84,8051	2,7779	11,4664	11,5661	0,6937	3,1103	13,3735
Budapest	232	11,3962	9,0093	13,7831	6,4490	0,0219	231,1443	2,3005	15,3722	18,4521	1,2114	7,8378	87,7522

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36745/ijca.370 | Journal eISSN: 2156-7964

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Published on: Mar 11, 2021

Published by: International Association for Court Administration

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Keywords:

measurement of judicial workload,

working time demand in court cases,

distribution of court cases,

weighting of court cases,

duration of proceedings

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