The military campaign to weaken a scrappy and deeply divided insurgency has had some success and in 2015 separatist violence fell 36% to 194 attacks, according to a tally of press reports by the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies.
A Reuters tally of deaths reported by local civil protection officials suggested 842 people had died, but that figure has not been confirmed by the government or the civil protection agency.
Among the nearly half-a-million dollars paid to Trump operations, $274,000 went for rent at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where the re-election operation is headquartered, according to a tally of the reported figures by The Wall Street Journal.
But over the past half-century, researchers have developed a tool kit for estimating the toll, including household surveys, tallies of media reports of violence, and comparisons of census data before and after conflicts.
For a handful of common drugs, legal and illegal, I tallied the number of reports falling under the positive and negative categories.
Though official statistics do not separate tribal violence from general crime, a tally of local press reports suggests that at least 17 people have been killed and 74 wounded this year in clan battles and blood feuds in Urfa Province, to which Siverek belongs.
Going forward, "Instead of tallying passenger reports of lost baggage and comparing that to the overall number of travelers, airlines will be required to report the total number of mishandled checked bags and the total number of checked bags," reads a White House fact sheet.
Zohor Afghan, a spokesman for the Education Ministry, said the new tally was a result of reports by the school and families of the victims.
But the new definition also means that the new tally of 599,108 jobs reported in the fourth quarter cannot be compared with the earlier figures from 2009.
