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Activity Number: 389
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #301790
Title: Ethical and Data-Integrity Problems in the Second Lancet Survey of Mortality in Iraq
Author(s): Michael Spagat*+
Companies: Royal Holloway, University of London
Address: Department of Economics, Egham, Surrey, International, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
Keywords: Survey ; Iraq ; Falsification ; Mortality ; Fabrication ; Ehtics
Abstract:

I consider the second Lancet survey of mortality in Iraq published in 2006. I give evidence of ethical violations against the survey's respondents including endangerment, privacy breeches and shortcomings in obtaining informed consent. Violations to minimal disclosure standards include non-disclosure of the survey's questionnaire, data-entry form, data matching anonymized interviewer IDs with households and sample design. I present evidence suggesting data fabrication and falsification that falls into nine broad categories.

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