Table 1.

Overview of Modules in the IntRegCosting Tool.

Module	Description	Data Elements
Registry details	General registry information	Registry name, organization type (health department, university, research institute, private, other), primary contact person
Expenditures	Total spending for the program year from all funding sources	Total funds by source, total funding for current year, unobligated funds carried forward from previous year, amount of funds unspent for the current year, total funds expended
In-kind contributions	Nonmonetary resources, assistance, and support	Labor contributions, non-labor contributions, valuation method, primary activity
Personnel expenditures	Personnel expenditures related to registry activities	Job title, full-time equivalent percentage, number of hours per week, months employed in fiscal year, salary, percentage of total time spent on all registry activities, salary allocated to registry activities
Personnel activities	Percentage of employee time spent on specific registry activities	Employee percentages by registry activity
Consultant expenditures	Value of time spent by contracted consultants on registry activities	Job title, annual payment, proportion of time spent on up to three activities by each consultant
Computers, travel, training, and other materials expenditures	Costs associated with computers, travel, training and other materials	Hardware costs, IT support costs, travel costs, training fees, costs of other materials, primary activity associated with costs, cost calculation method (actual, estimate, other)
Software used and licensing expenditure	Costs associated with software licensing and other software packages used by registries	Name of software, total amount of contract, year contract started, length of contract, amount paid in current year, cost calculation method (actual, estimate, other)
Administrative expenditures	Expenditures for administrative and overhead costs (e.g., phone, rent)	Total administrative or overhead cost; allocation method (e.g., percentage of direct costs); sub-category totals—rent, repairs/maintenance, network connection/maintenance, phone service, office equipment, other costs (such as water and electricity bills)
Factors affecting registry operations	Supplemental information on factors that may affect the costs of registry operations and effectiveness	Incident cases, abstracts received, whether records were stored centrally versus in separate departments, methods of data reporting or collection, data collection process (proportion of data abstracted directly from hospital records by registry staff or hired contractors), non-resident cases reported