Table 2. Funding sources of 74 national ethics committees, 72 countries, 2018.
| Funding source | No. of respondents (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking of source (n = 87) |
Mentioned sourcea,b (n = 74) | ||||
| First | Second | Third | |||
| Government | 45 (51.7) | 8 (9.2) | 2 (2.3) | 55 (74.3) | |
| Fees for protocol reviews | 15 (17.2) | 10 (11.5) | 0 (0.0) | 26 (35.1) | |
| Parliament | 5 (5.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.1) | 6 (8.1) | |
| International organizations | 3 (3.4) | 2 (2.3) | 1 (1.1) | 8 (10.8) | |
| Other | 3 (3.4) | 2 (2.3) | 2 (2.3) | 8 (10.8) | |
| Public institutions | 2 (2.3) | 4 (4.6) | 1 (1.1) | 10 (13.5) | |
| Charitable foundations | 1 (1.1) | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (4.1) | |
| Industry | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.4) | |
| Private donors | 0 (0.0) | 3 (3.4) | 1 (1.1) | 5 (6.8) | |
| No responsec | 13 (14.9) | 57 (65.5) | 79 (90.8) | NA | |
NA: not applicable.
a Only 85.1% (74/87) of respondents revealed their committees’ financial sources.
b Respondents were asked to rank up to nine funding sources, hence number of times the sources are mentioned can be higher than the sum of the ranks one to three.
c No response for the first rank means respondents did not want to reveal their financial sources. No response for the second and third ranks means that these committees did not have more than one or two sources of funding.