Table 1

Rational to derive default (first) estimates of exposure from the United States and Finnish exposure prevalences

Finnish prevalence
ValidInvalidZero
United States prevalence:
ValidAVEUSAAVE
 InvalidFINAVEZERO
 MissingFINOWNZERO
 ZeroAVEZEROZERO
  • AVE=average prevalence of exposure in Finland and the United States was used; USA=prevalence in the United States was used; FIN=prevalence in Finland was used; OWN=own national estimate was proposed; ZERO=no exposure was assumed to occur.