Table 3.

Data Sources (Selected)

• SR: Written summaries or reports whose numbers are used directly. Example: Recurrent spending from audited report.

• RR: Raw written records whose numbers are used directly. Examples: Complete registers of salary payments; register of HIV tests completed.

• RR-R: Raw written records informed by recall. Example: Invoices for condom purchases, with recall for number purchased and thus price.

• WP: Written policies/protocols. Example: Counseling protocol.

• RO: Recall only. Example: Percent effort on two interventions.

• EE: Estimation extrapolated from similar data. Example: Salary to hire someone to do volunteer's work, based on a similar employee's salary.

• Guess: Really rough estimate. No basis in data.