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Presentation made to a panel discussion on "Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Quantitative Estimates and Policy Implications," held at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), Washington DC, 10 Jan 2007.

Data extracted and analysed:

IBC-extracted variables
For each incident For each person
1 Date 13 Name
2 Time 14 Age
3 Place 15 Gender
4 Target 16 Marital status
5 Minimum deaths 17 Parental status
6 Maximum deaths 18 Occupation
7 Minimum injuries
8 Maximum injuries
9 Weapons
10 Killers
11 Media sources
12 Primary witnesses

State of Knowledge slide 5

We also store all relevant victim information available including name, age, gender, occupation, marital status, identity of perpetrator, type of weapon used, intended target, witness data, and injury data.