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Tom W said:
“According to Burnham et. al., all interviews were restricted to residential street households. If main streets are indeed more dangerous then this would lead to a bias in the opposite direction and perhaps even lead to an overall underestimate of the number of deaths.”

It depends on what a “main street” means. On a “main drag” you’d be less likely to find residences. The people planting IED’s or car bombs, or participating in attacks on military convoys passing through, or having “work accidents”, would likely be living on the nearby residential streets that were by definition (“crossing the main street”) singled out for the survey.