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Survey profile China, Shanghai, September 2006 |
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| Country name | China |
| Date of first day of data collection | 30 September 2006 |
| International reference price data source and year | MSH2005 |
| Name of local currency | Chinese Yuan |
| Exchange rate | 1 US Dollar = 7.999 Chinese Yuan (30 September 2006) |
| Total number of medicines surveyed | 41 |
| Daily salary of lowest paid unskilled government worker | 25 Chinese Yuan |
| Sector surveyed | Number of outlets/orders surveyed |
| Public sector procurement prices | 18 |
| Public sector patient prices | 30 |
| Private sector patient prices | 20 |
| Comments | |
| None | |
| Country report (where available) can be downloaded at http://www.haiweb.org/medicineprices/surveys.php |
| Differences between the 1st & 2nd editions of the manual | |
| Some of the analyses/categorizations presented are only possible using the second edition of the manual; for those surveys completed using the first edition of the manual, a message will be displayed should these analyses be requested | |