Table 3.

Cost comparison between methods of evaluating dog vaccination campaigns in Southeast Tanzania and Pemba island.

	Cost item	Transects (n = 2,070)		School-based surveys (n = 115)		Household surveys (n = 160)
Setup		Total cost ($)	Cost/village ($)	Total cost ($)	Cost/village ($)	Total cost ($)	Cost/village ($)
	Communication costs	606.08	0.29	20.01	0.17
	Fare	613.02	0.3
	Training/supervision	2,256.28	1.09	4,203.06	36.55
Subtotal (setup costs)			$1.68		$36.72
Implementation	Per diems/allowances	6,541.2	3.16	624.45	5.43	21,345.30	133.41
	Data collection	176.80	0.09			659.5	4.12
	Collars	13,858.09	6.69
	Questionnaire	806.16	0.39	1,200.88	10.44
	Fuel			1,555.64	13.53	2,992.92	18.17
Subtotal (implementation costs)		$10.33		$29.40		$155.70
Cost per village			$12.01		$66.12		$155.70
Cost per district		$1,307.37		$310.60		$889.05

The numbers of villages and districts which these calculations were based on are shown in Table 1. All costs are in USD. Per diems for household surveys covered supervisors, drivers, village leaders, and researchers. Allowances for enumerators conducting transects were $3.16/village. Household survey costs were based on interviewing 30 households per village. Data collection for household surveys also included the cost of mobile phones used by researchers for submitting data (six phones at $94.8/phone).