Economic feasibility of interventions targeted at decreasing piglet perinatal and pre-weaning mortality across European countries

Table 3 Economic outcomes obtained from bio-economic model by pig farrowing farms in six EU countries

Economic outputs¹	Country^{1, 2}
Economic outputs¹	A	B	C	D	E	F
Value of sow space unit (without fixed costs) in €	7437	3365	6016	1972	7224	4582
Value of sow space unit (with fixed costs³) in €	6157	501	3100	-1245	3920	795
Cost threshold for 1%-point reduction in perinatal mortality, €/sow space unit, (€/piglet)	111 (0.4)	126 (0.4)	197 (0.5)	96 (0.3)	71 (0.2)	142 (0.4)
Cost threshold for 1%-point reduction in pre-weaning mortality, €/sow space unit (€/piglet)	142 (0.5)	143 (0.5)	165 (0.4)	140 (0.4)	180 (0.5)	157 (0.5)

¹ The economic outputs are related to value of sow space unit and the maximum costs of 1%-point reduction in perinatal and pre-weaning mortality. The negative value of sow space unit for country D denotes that under assumed economic and production parameters, considering fixed costs of housing, piglet production was not profitable
²Countries were randomly coded as A, B, C, D, F due to anonymity requirements
³Discounted revenues minus all discounted costs including e.g. housing and insurance

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