Costings for staff used for the informant method and a retrospective mortality survey, by site.

†Other staff include people used for one off activities such as population estimation.*In Chiradzulu a one-off payment was made to other study staff (household enumerators for population data) amounting to $264 in total.¥Includes costs of vehicles hire, driver fees, petrol. Notes:Hourly staff costs are based on those incurred during implementation of informant method.Costs for key informants, FGD participants, and respondents are not included as payments are not usually made to these individuals.The average cost for different study staff in each study site is reported.Exchange rates are as recorded on the first data collection day in each study site: 1 USD = 50.20 Afghani (14 July 2008); 1 USD = 33.87 Thai Baht (11 July 2008); 1 USD = 143.29 Malawi Kwacha (26 August 2008; 1 USD = 1186.53 Tanzanian shillings (3 October 2008).