The depth of interview and data collection was also guided by sensitivity to the women’s willingness to share certain details and emotional state. For instance, not all interviews were able to profile the victim in relation to their involvement in drugs, and the manner she or he was killed. The project recognizes that these are not only sensitive, incriminating information but they can also trigger heavy emotions during the interviews. Documentation is also another factor as these details may have been missed in the interviews where the women did not agree to an audio recording. 3. Data Processing and Analysis There were several layers of data processing. First was a data audit where the submitted audio files and written reports were recorded. CHR-Regional offices which stll lack interviews were followed up for their output. Simultaneously, the data was also assessed for their surface content i.e. did all the questions in the interview tool have answers, and at the expected depth? A data matrix was prepared for this purpose. The interview transcripts were the main references for this layer of data processing, and relevant texts were copied verbatim to the data matrix. When transcripts were not available (i.e., the woman did not agree to have her interview audio recorded), the filled up Q&A form was the next reference.6 The profile information on the EJK victims and their household, along with responses to other closed-ended questions, was summarized through descriptive statistics. On the other hand, themes were culled out from the women’s and children’s narration of their experiences of EJK and its impact on themselves, their families and communities. 6 In Regions IV, V and XIII, even this was not available, so the summarized report and researchers’ notes were used. The five interviews from Region XIII was presented in one report with no distinction among the responses of the five women. This made the data invalid for tabulation. The reports from Regions IV and V provided documentation per interview, and the resonses were included in the tabulation when possible. This accommodation of data which did not follow research protocol on documentation was deemed acceptable for the purposes of a report, however, the uneveness of the data from the project seriously limits its value as a research. See also data audit as submitted to the CHR-Central Office in June 2018 for the listing of the data available and used for this report. Panaghoy: The Philippine War on Drugs from the Perspective of Women March 2019 19