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Article History

Received: 18 December 2023

Accepted: 19 April 2024

First Online: 6 May 2024

Declarations

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: The exclusive use of secondary data from Statistics Canada exempted this study from review by the Health Research Ethics Board (HREB) of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Based on guidance in the <i>Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans — TCPS 2</i> (<i>a joint policy of Canada’s three federal research agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) or “the Agencies”):</i>Research that relies exclusively on information that is made available through legislation or regulation does not require REB review (Article 2.2). Exemption from REB review for research involving this type of information is based on the presence of a custodian/steward designated in accordance with access to information and privacy legislation who protects privacy and proprietary interests associated with the information (e.g., an access to information and privacy coordinator or a guardian of Canadian census data).Tri-Council Policy Statement is available at .

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.