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Authors
Le Vu, Mathilde https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9495-4822
Matthes, Katarina L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-3542
Brabec, Marek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6367-5791
Riou, Julien https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-2852
Skrivankova, Veronika W. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0932-4792
Hösli, Irene
Rohrmann, Sabine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2215-1200
Staub, Kaspar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3951-1807
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (197305, 197305, 197305)
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Article History
Received: 21 December 2023
Accepted: 12 March 2024
First Online: 25 March 2024
Declarations
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: Not applicable - According to the Swiss Human Research Act, ethical clearance is not necessary when working with fully anonymized governmental data []. Furthermore, according to the Cantonal Ethics Committee of the Canton of Zurich, a confirmation of the Ethics Committee is not necessary in these cases [].
: Not applicable. As we are working with fully anonymized governmental data, informed consent was not required []. Furthermore, according to Swiss law (431.012.1, Art. 5), the Federal Statistical Office is allowed to collect these vital statistics data and provide them in anonymized form to researchers without informed consent [].
: The authors declare no competing interests.
