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• Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006 (09 Jan 2008)
  
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  This report estimates that there were 151,000 violent deaths in Iraq between March 2003 and June 2006. This is based on a survey of 9345 households (substantially more than were surveyed in the Lancet studies), conducted by Iraqi government ministries and the WHO in 2006-7. The 95% uncertainty range is 104,000 to 223,000 deaths.

• 'Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq' (main report published in the Lancet) (29 Oct 2004)
  
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  Published in UK medical journal The Lancet.

  "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

  Authors are Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, and Gilbert Burnham of the Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  Also available from the Lancet website.

• Brookings Iraq Index
  
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  Keywords: Statistics Economic development Opinion polls Economy

  The index includes data from recent opinion polls in Iraq.

  "The Iraq Index is a statistical compilation of economic, public opinion, and security data. This resource will provide updated information on various criteria, including crime, telephone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security forces, oil production, and coalition troop strength. "

  See also the index homepage and the archive of past issues of the index.

• Iraq Analysis Group Briefings
  
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  • 2004 Lancet Report
  
  Keywords: Statistics Humanitarian situation Mortality Lancet report

  Briefings by Mike Lewis of IAG on the UK Government's response to the Lancet Iraq Mortality Survey. The responses are found lacking in a number of respects; in particular, they seem to suggest that the Government does not consider "interpolation" from a sample a valid technique. If meant in earnest, it implies a rejection of all statistical analysis.

• World Bank Iraq Data Sheet (23 Oct 2006)
  
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• 2006 Lancet Report (11 Oct 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Lancet report Mortality Statistics

  The war in Iraq has led to some 655,000 excess deaths, according to a survey of 1849 households, organised by researchers from John Hopkins University. 600,000 of these deaths were caused by violence. Mortality rates have steadily increased since 2003.

• "How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?" (09 Jan 2006)
  
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  Article by Andrew Cockburn in Counterpunch.

  "President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million."

  "...Sprey calculates that deaths inflicted to date as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq could be, at best estimate, 183,000, with an upper 95 per cent confidence boundary of 511,000."

• A defence of Iraq Body Count (2006)
  
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  • Iraq Body Count
  
  Keywords: Mortality Statistics

  Members of the Iraq Body Count team argue that their methodology is rigorous, and as consistent with the most rigorous mortality figures from other sources.

  Responding to criticisms from MediaLens, they say that:

  It is not “probable” that IBC, which counts the dead and doesn’t estimate them, is at present an undercount: it is almost inevitable that it will be so, as we have insisted since our project began.

  The most reliable survey-based mortality estimate, they argue, is the Iraq Living Conditions Survey. This produces figures broadly in line with those found by Iraq Body Count.

  The authors also deny that Iraq Body Count underestimates the percentage of deaths caused by coalition forces. Whereas the Lancet study finds 43% of deaths to have been caused by the coalition, IBC figures for the same period put the figure at 47%

• Analysis of mortality studies (14 Oct 2005)
  
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  Activist Milan Rai summarises three major sources of information on mortality in Iraq: Iraq Body Count, the 2004 John Hopkins study published in the Lancet, and the UNDP Report, based on the Iraqi Living Conditions Survey.

• 'Lancet roundup and literature review' (11 Nov 2004)
  
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  Keywords: Statistics Mortality Humanitarian situation

  Blog post by Daniel Davies of www.crookedtimber.org.

• Media Lens: '100,000 Iraq Civilian Deaths' (07 Nov 2004)
  
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  Analysis of the UK mainstream media coverage of the Lancet report.

• 'The Economist' article: Counting the casualties (04 Nov 2004)
  
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  Analysis of the statistical basis of the Lancet report (requires subscription).

• Comment by Lancet editor
  
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  The report was published in the Lancet along with a comment by the editor, Richard Horton.

• IAG Briefing on UK Govt response to Lancet Report (20 Nov 2004)
  
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  • IAG Briefings on Lancet Report
  
  Keywords: UK Government Lancet report Mortality Statistics

  On 17 November 2004, the UK Foreign Secretary produced a written ministerial statement responding to the article 'Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey', published in The Lancet on 29 October 2004. The ministerial statement dismissed mortality estimates produced by the Lancet survey. This briefing argues that this dismissal is largely unjustified, and in parts disingenuous.

• IAG Briefing on UK Prime Minister's Response to Lancet Report (1 Nov 2004)
  
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  Keywords: UK Government Mortality Lancet report Statistics

  Our previous response to the statement by the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman about the Lancet study

• Medact supports claim of 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq
  
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  • 2004 Lancet Report
  
  Keywords: Lancet report Statistics Mortality