One million dead: the result of four years of war in Iraq. This figure was produced from the research conducted by the British Institute of Opinion Research Business and its counterpart Iraqi office, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies. The study was conducted on the basis of interviews with 2,414 adult Iraqis. Of these, at least 20 percent have lost at least one relative in the hostilities. More specifically, there have been 1,033,000 victims taken from amongst the Iraqi people. These statistics are based upon the period beginning with the invasion of the coalition forces under the command of the United States in March of 2003 until August of 2007. The last census conducted in Iraq in 1997 registered 4,050,000 households. The NGO has come to calculate the victims using this figure as a basis. An initial calculation of the war in Iraq was undertaken by the journal Lancet in 2004: 100, 000 people were said to have been killed. Following from this report, in October 2006 the medical school of John Bloomberg Opkins University States estimated the death toll among civilians to be at 601, 027. This report was to be stamped as "not credible" by President George W. Bush. However, the margin of error in the investigation was 1.7% and the figure in reality is estimated to have been between 946,258 and 1.12 million. The research carried out was based upon the study of 15 of the 18 Iraqi provinces. Among those not included are two of the most troubled areas - Karbala and Anbar - in the northern province of Erbil, where the authorities have refused permission to conduct the investigation. Orb, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1994, conducts research for the public, private and voluntary sectors. The director of the group, Allan Hyde, said that his only goal was to register as accurately as possible the number of deaths among the Iraqi population as a result of the continuing conflict.
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