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Survey: 1m Iraqis killed by
US invasion
Press
TV
Friday February 1, 2008
More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the US-led
invasion according to a survey by one of Britain's leading polling
groups.
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with
2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent
of people questioned had at least one death in their household
as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes, Antiwar.com
reported.
The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05
million households in Iraq, a figure ORB used to calculate that
approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the
war.
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September
2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to
1.12 million.
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ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but decided
to go back and conduct more research in rural areas to make the
survey as comprehensive as possible and then came up with the
revised figure.
The research covered 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Those that not
covered included two of Iraq's more unstable Karbala and al-Anbar
regions and the northern province of Arbil, where local authorities
refused ORB a permit to work.
ORB, a non-government-funded group founded in 1994, conducts
research for the private, public and voluntary sectors.
The director of the group, Allan Hyde, said that the group had
no objective other than to record as accurately as possible the
number of deaths among the Iraqi population caused by the US invasion.
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