Enhancing the comparability of costing methods: cross-country variability in the prices of non-traded inputs to health programmes

Table 6 Estimated price for print media for selected countries in 2000 I$ and US$

Country	GDP per capita (I$)	In or out-of-sample¹	Type	Price per unit^2,3				Price per unit
				Mean (I$)	95% uncertainty interval Low	95% uncertainty interval High	SD	Mean (US$)	SD
Mali	636	Out	Flyer	0.51	0.21	1.01	0.27	0.16	0.09
			Poster	2.42	0.95	4.63	1.25	0.77	0.40
Mozambique	720	Out	Flyer	0.51	0.22	0.99	0.25	0.15	0.07
			Poster	2.42	0.99	4.59	1.20	0.72	0.36
Indonesia	3,168	Out	Flyer	0.54	0.33	0.83	0.15	0.13	0.03
			Poster	2.55	1.51	3.95	0.76	0.59	0.18
Ecuador	3,261	In	Flyer	0.54	0.33	0.82	0.15	0.18	0.05
			Poster	2.56	1.51	3.96	0.76	0.86	0.25
Algeria	3,949	Out	Flyer	0.55	0.35	0.81	0.15	0.25	0.07
			Poster	2.59	1.55	3.97	0.74	1.17	0.33
Romania	6,412	Out	Flyer	0.56	0.36	0.81	0.14	0.14	0.04
			Poster	2.69	1.64	4.04	0.75	0.68	0.19
Russian	8,036	In	Flyer	0.58	0.37	0.84	0.15	0.13	0.03
Federation			Poster	2.74	1.67	4.15	0.78	0.62	0.18
Bahrain	14,159	Out	Flyer	0.61	0.35	0.95	0.18	0.48	0.14
			Poster	2.91	1.62	4.65	0.95	2.30	0.75
Greece	16,706	Out	Flyer	0.62	0.35	0.98	0.19	0.39	0.12
			Poster	2.96	1.60	4.81	1.02	1.85	0.64
United Arab	20,331	Out	Flyer	0.63	0.34	1.04	0.21	0.64	0.21
Emirates			Poster	3.03	1.56	5.09	1.12	3.06	1.13
United	24,348	In	Flyer	0.61	0.35	0.95	0.18	0.60	0.18
Kingdom			Poster	2.91	1.62	4.67	0.96	2.87	0.95
Canada	28,088	In	Flyer	0.66	0.33	1.13	0.25	0.54	0.20
			Poster	3.16	1.47	5.61	1.31	2.57	1.06

¹In and out of sample indicate whether or not the country was included in the data set used to estimate the model.
²Regional estimates are available at http://www.who.int/choice.
³Unit price is for a flyer of size A4 double sided, and a poster of a size of one meter square.

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