Volume 52 - Article 2 | Pages 25–70
Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges
By Chih-lan Winnie Yang, Nicole Denier, Xavier St-Denis, Sean Waite
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