For each relative, the current age or, if deceased, age of death was assessed.
The deceased age ranged from 16-43 years, with median age of 26.5 years and a standard deviation of 6.3 years.
In addition, the FOTS data set included ages of relatives (current, or if deceased, age at death).
The phrase 'successfully completed VA interview' means that a VA interview was undertaken which yielded basic personal characteristics of the deceased (age, sex, etc).
For each identified unique death in a commune, demographic information of the deceased (age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, location of residence) and household address were extracted into a separate file to help locate the household for subsequent VA interviews.
Aggregately, 73% of the deceased were aged from 15 to 49, the most economically-productive group.
The participating GPs completed the registration form for each deceased patient aged ≥18 years.
Thirty-one people, including two unborn children (twins) were killed and 15 of the deceased were aged 17 years or under.
The four deceased girls, aged 13-14 years old, had been attending a UNICEF-supported school club at Al Sabaat school in Al Rastan, a town about 20km to the north of Homs city.
The study population consisted of 162,146 deceased subjects aged 35 years or older from 3 counties (Suffolk, Middlesex, and Norfolk) in the eastern Massachusetts, USA for the period between January 1 , 1995and December 31 , 2002based on data availability.
