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Introduction

 This Technical Report assembles data on national fire statistics practices. Such practices are highly relevant to the estimation of model parameters in standards developed by ISO/TC 92. In the absence of any proposals for international standards on such practices, it is useful to ISO/TC 92 to have an overview of existing practices and their implications for existing fire statistical data.

This Technical Report is an overview of national fire statistics practices. A general call was issued to all nations participating in ISO/TC 92, and 10 countries completed a survey instrument prepared and distributed by TG1 of ISO/TC 92, WG 8:

- Australia

- Canada

- China

- France

- Japan

- Kenya

- (Republic of) Korea

- Russia

- United Kingdom

- USA

The survey instrument is included as Annex A.

In this Technical Report, the analysis is organized into four sections:

- Basic Aspects of Data Collection and Analysis (Clauses 1 to 7)

- General Characteristics of Fires (Clauses 8 to 10)

- Characteristics Related to Cause of Ignition (Clauses 11 to 20)

- Characteristics Related to Mitigation of Fire Severity (Clauses 21 to 25)

There is no analysis of Question 11c on three types of equipment used by fire departments (fire brigades), because there were too few responses for any meaningful analysis. There is no Question 13 due to a numbering error. There is no analysis of Question 15, which contained two general questions inviting uncoded responses on matters not covered in the survey.

Annex B is reserved for references, including published coding manuals for fire reporting for those nations that publish such manuals and websites providing national statistics and related analyses for many countries.