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Activity Number: 648
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Thursday, August 5, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #306319
Title: Measuring Lethal Counterinsurgency Violence in Amritsar District, India Using a Referral-Based Sampling Technique
Author(s): Romesh Silva*+ and Jeff Klingner and Scott Weikart
Companies: Benetech and Benetech and Benetech
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Keywords: human rights ; referral-based sampling ; conflict mortality ; social network analysis ; Punjab, India ; survey methods
Abstract:

Existing quantitative claims about enforced disappearances in Punjab (India) between 1984 and 1996 are not based on defensible statistical methods. We present preliminary results from a retrospective mortality survey in the rural region of Amritsar District designed to measure lethal counterinsurgency violence. The survey used a hybrid sampling design which combines probability-based random sampling with referral-based sampling. We explore the dynamics of referral-based sampling through a presentation of classical survey estimation methods and social network analysis metrics of the referral chains.


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