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Table 3 Crude estimates of the costs per sampling scheme per trap-night and per Anopheles funestus caught for the three months when community-based sampling was validated with quality assurance sampling schemes

From: A cost-effective, community-based, mosquito-trapping scheme that captures spatial and temporal heterogeneities of malaria transmission in rural Zambia

Estimated parameter

Units

Quality assured

Community-based

QA-HLC

QA-LT

QA-ITT

CB-LT

CB-ITT

Number of samples

Person-night

40

20

20

249

243

Numbers caught

Number of An. funestus

526

41

32

637

156

Mean caught

Number of An. funestus per person-night

13.2

2.1

1.6

2.6

0.6

Personnel costsa

$(ZMW)

2,180(11,401.4)

1,520(7,949.6)

1,076(5,627.5)

2509.4(13,124.2)

2,939.4(15,373.1)

Per diem costsb

$(ZMW)

414(2,165.2)

1,243(6,500.9)

1,243(6,500.9)

621(3,247.8)

621(3,247.8)

Trap depreciation costs

$(ZMW)

0(0)

87.5(457.6)

125(653.8)

87.5(457.6)

125(653.8)

Transport costsa

$(ZMW)

225(1,176.8)

225(1,176.8)

225(1,176.8)

0(0)

0(0)

Vehicle maintenance costsc

$(ZMW)

212(1,108.8)

211(1,108.8)

212(1,108.8)

71(371.3)

71(371.3)

Vehicle depreciation costd

$(ZMW)

2,500(13,075)

2,500(13,075)

2,500(13,075)

0(0)

0(0)

Bicycle repair costsc

$(ZMW)

0(0)

0(0)

0(0)

94(491.6)

611(3,195.5)

Bicycle depreciation costsd

$(ZMW)

0(0)

0(0)

0(0)

5(26.2)

5(26.2)

Total expenditure

$(ZMW)

5,531(28,927.1)

5,788(30,268.6)

5,381(28,142.6)

3,388(17,718.7)

4,372(22,867.7)

Cost per person-night of sampling

$(ZMW)

138.3(723.2)

289.4(1,513.4)

269.1(1,407.1)

13.6(71.2)

18.0(94.1)

Cost per specimen of An. funestus caught

$(ZMW)

10.5(55)

141.2(738.3)

168.2(879.5)

5.3(27.8)

28.0(146.6)

  1. aCost estimates were based on the approximated time and efforts spent on each trapping method.
  2. bAssumptions made on the salaries paid and per diem to the central level teams during their visits.
  3. cEstimated cost incurred for maintaining the equipment for transporting or visiting the trapping schemes per location.
  4. dMonthly depreciation costs calculated when both trapping schemes where operational for three months.
  5. $- US dollar.
  6. ZMW - Zambian Kwacha.
  7. Note: 1$ ≈ ZMW 5.23 which was the average exchange during the midpoint year of 2012.