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Article History

Received: 9 February 2024

Revised: 2 August 2024

Accepted: 6 August 2024

First Online: 20 August 2024

Declarations

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: The study obtained ethics approval from the Research Ethics Board at the University of Manitoba (Protocol reference: H2018:438 (HS22337)) on January 9, 2019.

: Consent to participate does not apply to this study because it relied exclusively on secondary use of anonymous information legally accessible to the public through <i>Statistics Canada’s</i> Research Data Centres (RDCs), which are located throughout the country. RDCs provide researchers with access, in a secure setting, to microdata from the General Social Survey, 2014 and other population and household surveys. The centres are staffed by <i>Statistics Canada</i> employees. They are operated under the provisions of the <i>Statistics Act</i> in accordance with all the confidentiality rules and are accessible only to researchers with approved projects, such as ours, who have been sworn in under the <i>Statistics Act</i> as ‘deemed employees’.

: Consent to publish is not applicable to our study. No individual person’s data have been included in our manuscript and minimum cell size requirements and rounding required by <i>Statistics Canada</i> are imposed to minimize the risk of breach of confidentiality.

: The authors declare no competing interests to disclose<i>.</i>