Table 2. Breakdown of estimated annual cost of implementing a mortality surveillance system, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003–2004.

Process	Cost per death			Total costa			Total savings with single codingb
	Rs	US$c		Rs	US$c		Rs	US$c
Training	50	1.09		67 025	1 474.97		0	0
Data collection	106	2.34		144 024	3 169.44		0	0
Cause of death assignment	250	5.51		339 000	7 460.14		169 500	3 730
Project management	252	5.55		341 724	7 520.08		103 662	2 281
Total cost	659	14.49		891 773	19 624.63		273 162	6 011

US$, United States dollars; Rs, Indian rupees.
^a Cost per death multiplied by total number of deaths (1354).
^b With deaths coded only once, the cause-of-death assignment costs would be reduced by half, and project management costs would be reduced by one third.
^c Conversion rate: 1 Rs = US$ 0.0220063 (average exchange rate for 2003–2004, Reserve Bank of India).²⁵