Afghan Refugee Camp Surveys in Pakistan, 2002

Accounting for Civilian Casualties: From the Past to the Future

“…Fieldwork can be dangerous, so interviewers often must either risk their lives, which is ethically unacceptable, or they must compromise the integrity of the statistical estimation by avoiding certain areas. Conducting surveys only in refugee camps can help to maintain quality, as with Bell et al (2008), but refugees can never adequately represent the population from which they are drawn. One final issue derives from the fact that modern conflicts tend to be comprised of pockets of violence interspersed with islands of peace.…”

Interview with Fritz J. Scheuren: Statistical Mentsch

“…There was an earlier interview with him in the September 2011 issue of Amstat News [16]. 2 This new interview will expand on that piece and bring out more of his views on family, statistics, and life in general.…”

“…While Fritz did not personally go to Pakistan, he played an important role by designing the sampling and data collection plans used for the analysis [3]. As he noted in his ASA Presidential address, 41 "the Afghan survey had to be done quickly and in secret to protect the identity of the contractor and those who did the interviewing" [16].…”

“…Besides handling the survey in two languages, Nolle and Scheuren faced monitoring the contrac-tors from a distance. Six months after the fieldwork was done, they wrote a paper about their experience and presented it at the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings [2] and later published in the book Statistical Methods for Human Rights, edited by Jana Asher, David Banks, and Fritz Scheuren [3].…”