Table 5.
Implementation cost (comparing cost elements between paper-based and Open Data Kit phone).
| Stages of data management | Android-based mobile devices (US $) |
Paper-based (US $) |
Comments |
| Questionnaire design and pretesting | 0 | 0.0 | This was done by the investigators |
| Purchase/hire of Android mobile phones | 0 (300)c | 0.0 | Mobile phones were granted for data collection by the WHOa state program office |
| Building of forms on ODKb platform | 66.7 | 0.0 | |
| Training of data collectors | 33.3 | 33.3 | |
| Mass production of questionnaires of 15 pages (2000 copies) | 0.0 | 100.0 | US $0.03 per page for 15 pages and 2000 copies |
| Data entry and cleaning | 66.7 | 333.3 | Data cleaning alone needed for ODKb |
| Data download and cleaning | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Airtime and Internet data plans | 40.0 | 0.0 | US $5.0 per device |
| Total estimated costs | 206.7 (506.7)c | 466.7 |
aWHO: World Health Organization.
bODK: Open Data Kit.
cCost of deployment, should the project have needed to purchase the same quality of Android phones obtained for use from the WHO state office.