While reminding myself how many premies there were in New Zealand I realised there was a quick and dirty but possibly accurate method of determining the number of premies in the "Western World" according to Elan Vital's own statistics. I had occasionally thought about it but I had been fixated on a slow and clean method involving GNPs and Purchasing Power Parity.
So Australian and New Zealand pwks are to pay 1/20th of the cost of the "10 screening videos" and there were 660 pwks who would go along to a live screening broadcast which they obviously consider the minimum requirement to be an active pwk. Therefore there were approximately 13,000 active pwks in the middle class non-Indian world.
Any statisticians out there?
Dear
City/Centre Teams
SCREENING VIDEO PRODUCTION SUPPORT
You have been receiving screening videos for your
local PWK communities. For 2005 it is
anticipated that there will be 10 such videos produced. The original production
cost for each original is US5250. Of the
10 screening videos: 4 will be funded by North
America, 4 by Europe, 1 by
Pacific and 1 by South America.
Of the Pacific share, North Pacific and South Pacific
have been requested to cover 50% each for the production of one video from an
event ie Tainan Event. So our SPac share comes to US2625.00. Once we contribute towards this, we are not
required to pay any further production
costs this year.
Please note, the screening video copies purchased
from Resource Media is a separate cost and still needs to be paid. Resource Media covers the costs for
duplication, administration and shipment of these master tapes and gets supported
from the cities when they acquire copies for local use.
We request your centre to support this one off
project of the production of the original of one event. Being mindful of the
various demands on your contributions, please feel free to send me any queries.
Thanks
