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. 2021 Jan 7;16:1. doi: 10.1186/s13012-020-01068-x

Table 1.

Micro costing assumptions and sources of unit costs

Cost component Trial setting
Details and assumptions Source of unit costs
Local health district costs
 Labour
 Face to face training Health service-funded dietitians and project officers employed to support childcare centres to be compliant with dietary guidelines

Wage rates

HSM level D midpoint of $42.50 per hour including 30% on-costs

 Support phone calls, newsletter and emails
 Optional online training offered to cooks
 Materials
 Tablets to enable portable access to web-resources Tablets: Samsung Galaxy tablets provided to intervention centres Tablets: Exact cost from project records $308.44 average 2016/2017 cost
 Stationery—printed resources

Printing:

2 colour pages

Printing: Exact cost from project records $0.10/0.65 per page Officeworks
 B&W/colour 2 colour pages
 Blank service action plan (colour) 17 colour pages
 Certificate of participation in training 4 colour pages
 Nutrition training manual 2 B&W pages
 Support Officer Action Plan examples 21 colour pages
 Training evaluation questionnaire
 FeedAustralia User Guide (colour)
 Phone calls

Follow-up phone calls (3 per service)

Online training phone calls (additional to follow-up phone calls)

Exact cost from project records $0.30 Telstra local rate
 Travel and expenses Meals, travel and accommodation costs

Exact cost from project records

Travel by car valued using the NSW Treasury ‘TC17-10 Meal, Travelling and Related Allowances’ monetary rates per kilometre travelled [37]

Childcare centre costs
 Labour Self-reported time in hours collected via baseline and follow-up using telephone surveys

Fair Work Australia award wage rates per hour [31] (lower, midpoint, upper) adjusted to include 30% overheads

Cook ($26.13, $28.65, $32.25)

Educator ($30.56,$33.75, $34.26)

Supervisor ($35.28, $35.80, $36.44)

Director L1 ≤ 39 children ($40.69, $43.26, $44.71)

Director L2 40-59 children ($41.20, $43.65, $45.21)

Director L3 ≥ 60 children ($41.70, $44.19, $45.72)

 Cook
 Supervisor
 Educator
 Director