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Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey

Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014, Valeria Cetorelli and colleagues' 2017 study in PLOS Medicine, uses a retrospective household survey method standard in humanitarian mortality research to estimate roughly 3,100 people killed and 6,800 abducted. Its strength is a peer reviewed survey methodology with transparent confidence intervals, one of the more rigorous available figures for the atrocity. Its limit is that any survey of a violently displaced population carries irreducible uncertainty, which is why the figures are stated as estimates rather than a count.

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Valeria Cetorelli and colleagues' 2017 study in PLOS Medicine on Yazidi mortality and kidnapping in the area of Mount Sinjar, the top tier reflecting a peer reviewed survey methodology standard in humanitarian mortality research, with transparent confidence intervals around its roughly 3,100 killed and 6,800 abducted estimates, notwithstanding that any survey of a violently displaced population carries irreducible uncertainty, which is why the figures are stated as estimates rather than a count.
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About 3,100 killed and about 6,800 abducted.
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Author
Valeria Cetorelli and others
Publisher
PLOS Medicine
Publication Year
2017
URL
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297
Source Type
peer-reviewed article
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Iraq, Countries

This source names Iraq directly: "in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014, Valeria Cetorelli and colleagues' 2017 study in PLOS Medicine, uses a retrospective household survey method standard in humanitarian mortality..."

Source Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household surveyValeria Cetorelli and others
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