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How do we attribute deaths or injuries to particular events?  Was a person killed by driver error in a car crash or by the snow-storm in which they were driving?  Should the damages from a burned-down building count towards the fire or the storm which produced the lightning that started the fire?  Researchers using disaster data need to understand how these decisions were made.  For producers of disaster data, addressing these issues in a consistent manner is essential to ensure the usefulness of the data.