Table 2.

Meeting attendance and the average number of redacted names over the study period.

Timeframe (TF)	No. of meetings	No. of expertsa listed in minutesb	No. of experts named and attending 50% or more of meetingsc	Number of experts named in meetings			Average number of redacted namesd in meetings
				Average	Min.	Max.	Experts	Observers	Secretariat
TF1	16	37	15	15.1	8	21	1.25	1.00	4.63
TF2	23	56	32	28.3	16	37	0.30	2.13	7.26
TF3	19	78	35	29.0	7	47	0.63	6.47	13.21
TF4	16	74	36	34.9	29	42	0.56	7.00	15.94
TF5	15	79	39	38.3	30	44	0.67	8.27	15.20
Whole study period	89	142	32	29.0	7	47	0.65	10.78	4.76

^aSome attendees switched from experts to observers and vice versa during the process—however, in our final count, we only accounted for each attendee’s most frequent role.

^bThis is our count using our expert database, rather than the official count provided in the minutes. On some occasions, we found that the number of named attendees plus the listed redactions did not add up to the officially provided number of total attendees e.g., meeting 62.

^cValue taken is rounded up, e.g., if 15 meetings, those listed attended eight or more meetings.

^dThese are the officially provided counts for redactions in the meeting minutes.