Document is current

Article History

Received: 9 February 2024

Revised: 2 August 2024

Accepted: 6 August 2024

First Online: 20 August 2024

Declarations

:

: 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 Statistics Canada’s 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 Statistics Canada employees. They are operated under the provisions of the Statistics Act 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 Statistics Act 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 Statistics Canada are imposed to minimize the risk of breach of confidentiality.

: The authors declare no competing interests to disclose.