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4,503documents

4,863files

2,628dated documents

903with Arabic text

17categories

Categories × months

	Apr 03	May 03	Jun 03	Jul 03	Aug 03	Sep 03	Oct 03	Nov 03	Dec 03	Jan 04	Feb 04	Mar 04	Apr 04	May 04	Jun 04
Regulations		1	4	1					1	1					4
Orders		4	10	3	6	15	2	2	4	5	8	5	14	7	14
Memoranda			2		2	1		1		1	1		1	2	4
Public Notices		1	12						4	1			1		1
Press Releases		33	6	40	22	51	39	12	33	82	80	71	79	128	26
Transcripts		1		2	16	36	54	61	22	17	42	49	74	69	50
Budget		1	3	3	9		22	11	2	3	9	4	5	3	1
Letters				1			1
Government		5	4	9	12	3	2	1		1	11	5	1	2	2
Oil for Food							1								1
Business	2	1	1		5	5	6	39	44	12	66	24	64	27	78
Regions				7	54	39	45	25				1	1	1
Other							1	1		1
Essential Services						1	1	26	69	89	89	90	93	56	7
Daily		1		23	3	8	11
AST					3					1	1	1	2	2	2
Misc		1		3	6		1		2	1	1	2			3

Number of dated documents per category in each month. 1,875 documents with no known date (42%) are not shown here. Click a cell to filter that section’s list by month.

Topics × months (whole archive)

	Apr 03	May 03	Jun 03	Jul 03	Aug 03	Sep 03	Oct 03	Nov 03	Dec 03	Jan 04	Feb 04	Mar 04	Apr 04	May 04	Jun 04
Security	1	23	30	51	71	93	97	71	38	65	103	101	140	141	108
Police, army & civil defense	2	12	7	25	48	70	67	47	25	42	52	53	82	87	54
Electricity		4	3	19	21	48	40	38	51	95	91	96	86	72	37
Oil & fuel		10	3	24	29	45	41	43	50	87	96	93	96	77	55
Water & sewage		4	6	15	35	45	33	12	30	62	20	36	38	44	29
Health		4	3	20	37	44	41	38	19	42	37	38	52	57	39
Education		15	10	15	49	53	67	56	24	47	63	55	78	83	56
Economy, currency & banking		21	14	53	94	72	91	69	44	65	88	76	96	102	86
Reconstruction & contracts	2	26	11	38	48	72	77	68	48	90	114	116	130	140	98
Elections		1	2	20	9	38	24	30	7	18	49	47	64	63	48
Constitution & the TAL		1	2	14	9	51	22	27	9	13	29	61	42	41	38
Sovereignty & handover				8	4	46	18	37	18	56	62	63	89	119	67
Governing Council		4		18	27	56	48	41	20	29	52	71	78	61	34
Detainees & prisons		3	2	2	5	17	1	11	11	10	13	12	22	75	25
De-Ba'athification		11	15	18	7	22	21	9	8	13	21	19	24	32	24
Women		4	3	19	10	35	44	29	16	23	42	56	39	52	32

Number of documents (in all categories) that mention the topic in each month. Clicking searches for the topic’s keyword. An indicator based on keywords in automatically extracted text.

Governorates most mentioned in the texts

Nineveh429 Duhok372 Erbil172 Sulaymaniyah100 Anbar602 Salah ad-Din343 Kirkuk241 Diyala262Baghdad2,178 Wasit490Karbala245 Babil620Maysan109Najaf665 Qadisiyah155 Dhi Qar129 Basra648Muthanna90

Schematic map of Iraq’s governorates (west on the left). Number of documents that mention the governorate or its main cities.

Language by category

Regulations12 Orders99 Memoranda15 Public Notices24 Press Releases830 Transcripts525 Budget281 Letters10 Government337 Oil for Food7 Business960 Regions306 Other8 Essential Services594 Daily63 AST310 Misc122

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Most mentioned ministries

Ministry of Electricity208 Ministry of Finance144 Ministry of Trade118 Ministry of Interior109 Ministry of Health90 Ministry of Justice88 Ministry of Agriculture80 Ministry of Education78 Ministry of Oil66 Ministry of Transportation52 Ministry of Planning51 Ministry of Industry & Minerals Note43 Ministry of Defense42 Ministry of Foreign Affairs40

Arabic and English together (each on its own line).

Companion sources × months

	Apr 03	May 03	Jun 03	Jul 03	Aug 03	Sep 03	Oct 03	Nov 03	Dec 03	Jan 04	Feb 04	Mar 04	Apr 04	May 04	Jun 04
Iraqi Official Gazette					1
United Nations	2	4	1	3	3		3	4	3		2	1	5	1	4
Audit and oversight		8					2	2	9	11	3	8	6	5	15
The White House	17	5	1	3	1	5	9	9	2	4	4	3	5	12	6
US Department of Defense records	4	10	6	9	6	8	7	14	17	11	6	19	9	8	13
British government records	74	44	33	28	14	35	16	25	11	21	12	9	19	20	26
US Congress	14	9	7	5		7	4		3	3	1	4	11	6	6
USAID	86	71	41	23	8	16	11	7	6	6	4	8	7	7	6
Interviews and testimonies	1			6	2	1	4				4

Other bodies’ documents dated within the CPA period, per section and month. They are not included in the archive figures above. 985 documents undated or outside the period are not shown here.