Sakamoto, Jennifer Lisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität Dortmund
Article History
Received: 10 January 2026
Accepted: 30 July 2026
First Online: 10 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study did not require ethics approval as it relied exclusively on secondary analysis of publicly available, municipality-level aggregated data. The datasets contained no personal identifiers, and no direct interaction with human participants was involved. The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.