Article History
Received: 30 April 2018
Accepted: 27 July 2018
First Online: 6 September 2018
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: The Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (MUHREC) granted this project (“Do Australian parents want both a son and a daughter?”; MUHREC project number 0394) an exemption from ethical review under section 5.1.22 of the <i>National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research</i>. Section 5.1.22 states “Institutions may choose to exempt from ethical review research that: (a) is negligible risk research; and (b) involves the use of existing collections of data or records that contain only non-identifiable data about human beings.”
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