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The National Couples' Health and Time Study

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NCHAT (N = 3,642 plus N = 1,515 partners) is population representative study of diverse couples in the US. Data are available at z.umn.edu/nchaticpsr | More info available at pop.umn.edu/nchat

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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Check out this new interesting publication from Bogza and Pierce in Family Relations titled "Anxiety during the transition to parenthood: Partners' cognitive and emotional experience"
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<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objective This qualitative study aimed to describe mothers and fathers' cognitive and emotional responses to their coparent's anxiety during the transition to parenthood. Background The transition ...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Heading to PAA 2026? Find a schedule of presentations using NCHAT data below!
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NCHAT PAA Presentations 2026.docx
NCHAT Presentations: 2026 Population Association of America Meeting St. Louis, Missouri May 6-9 Date Author(s) Program Number/Time Session Title Thursday, May 7 Lee Brady 12: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Struc...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy Tuesday! Check out this publication from Sarah A. Alkhatib, Rohit Balasundaram, Kaeli Johnson, Stacey B. Griner, Malinee Neelamegam, and Erika L. Thompson in Health Behavior Research titled "Sociocultural Correlates of Contraceptive Method Use Among Partnered U.S. Women: Findings from NCHAT"
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Check out this interesting read from de Lena and Boertien titled, "A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings"
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This article aims to understand how relationship status is associated with earnings among LGB people. Background Previous research has found that marriage is related to higher earnings f...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Happy Monday everyone! Check out this new, crucial report from Bouton and Redfield from the Williams Institute.
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Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Happy Monday! Check out this new NCHAT publication.
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Check out this new NCHAT publication! Chandler Fairbanks published "Bisexual identity, stress, and romantic relationships" in Family Relations.
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<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines the association between sexual minority identities, stress, and three dimensions of romantic relationships: satisfaction, conflict, and instability. Background A majo...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Happy Friday! Check out this new read from Eeckhaut et al. in Demography titled "Socioeconomic Differences in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Achieving U.S. Women's Family Planning Goals: 'Right Time' Births."
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Socioeconomic Differences in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Achieving U.S. Women's Family Planning Goals: “Right Time” Births | Demography | Duke University Press
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Happy Thursday! Check out this interesting read from Lee et al. in AJPH titled "Structural Cissexism, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Care Needs Among Gender-Diverse Adolescents in the United States."
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Structural Cissexism, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Care Needs Among Gender-Diverse Adolescents in the United States | AJPH | Vol. 116 Issue 2
Objectives. To examine the associations between state-level structural cissexism and both mental health and unmet mental health care needs among a large national sample of gender-diverse adolescents (...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Call for papers alert! The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships journal is organizing a special issue under the theme of "Singlehood in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Identity, Normativity and Inequality in Contemporary Societies" with guest editors Drs. Dries Van Gasse and Dimitri Mortelmans.
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Happy New Year everyone! Check out this new NCHAT publication titled "Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of racial discrimination in Asian Americans' intimate relationships" by Drs. Chengfei Jiao and Kayla Reed-Fitzke.
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<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examined how racial discrimination was related to Asian Americans' coping and adaptive mechanisms in intimate relationships, specifically negative conflict and perceived partner...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Happy December! Cozy up with a new read and check out this interesting recent publication titled, "A Latent Profile Analysis of Multidimensional Sexual Stigma in LGB Adults: Subgroup Differences and Associations with Distress and Substance Use" from Pushpanadh et al.
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A Latent Profile Analysis of Multidimensional Sexual Stigma in LGB Adults: Subgroup Differences and Associations with Distress and Substance Use - Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Introduction Stigma has long been cited as a risk factor for sexual minority health disparities and is inherently a multifaceted construct, encompassing a wide range of processes. As such, it must be ...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Call for Papers alert! The 2026 International Association for Relationship Research conference will be held from Wednesday, July 8, to Sunday, July 12, in Glasgow, Scotland. Submissions are due by December 1, 2025.
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IARR 2026 Conference
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Happy Thursday! We are thrilled to share an exciting data update! Along with the returning Wave 1 respondents, NCHAT Wave 3 will include a refreshment sample of more than 900 young adults aged 20 to 29!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Call for papers alert! The Population Research and Policy Review journal is organizing a special issue under the theme of "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context" with guest editors Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Dr. Sarah R. Hayford, and Dr. Leslie Root. Submission deadline is March 1, 2026.
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Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context
Call for Papers Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential ...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New NCHAT publication alert! TeKisha M. Rice Wallace, Chalandra M. Bryant, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social published "Racism-Related Stress and the Undermining of Black Romantic Relationships" in Journal of Family and Marriage. Congratulations!
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective of this study was to examine the relative and compounded associations between two dimensions of racism-related stress (interpersonal racial discrimination and vicarious racis...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Happy Friday eve, everyone! We would like to hear from YOU about YOUR NCHAT news! If you have published or presented with NCHAT, please let us know at the following link:
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NCHAT New Publications Form
Please enter any new publications using NCHAT data that you would like to include in NCHAT's Newsletter. For other types of announcements (e.g., call for proposals), please use our Newsletter Submiss...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The project "Comprehensive Biological Data in NCHAT BIO: Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Epigenetic Aging" with Drs. Lisa Christian and Claire Kamp Dush has received funding! The goal of this project is to collect biological data to measure inflammation and epigenetic aging in NCHAT respondents.
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If you haven't already, check out Wave 2 of the NCHAT data! It is now available at ICPSR. This short follow-up survey includes responses from 2,723 primary respondents and 755 partners from Wave 1. Learn more about it here: www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/DSDR/stu...
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National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT), United States, 2020-2022
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press
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Wendy Manning @wendymanning.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
4% of marriages each year are now to same-sex marriage! 10 years of love wins! www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...
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National Center for Family and Marriage Research @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
There were 63,687 new marriages among same-sex couples in 2019, compared to 60,046 in 2021 and 72,835 in 2023. Check out our new Family Profile on newlywed same-sex couples here: doi.org/10.25035/ncf....
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being. The answer? Yes! 1/ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We have two new doctors on our team!! Dr. Alex Bates (UMN) and Dr. Kristen Gustafson (BGSU) successfully defended their dissertations earlier this month! Both have been NCHAT GRAs and have been crucial and productive members of our team! See below for their dissertation titles!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Two members of the NCHAT team were at the SBE CCC meeting in Michigan earlier this month! Dr. Ann Meier presented a project about childcare, device use, and parental well-being during the pandemic and Dr. Alex VanBergen presented a poster and won the meeting's best poster award! Great work!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New NCHAT publication!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Links between partnering, relationship quality and mental well-being among sexual minority and straight individuals
We extend prior research on associations between being single versus being romantically partnered and mental well-being to include lesbian/gay, bisexual, and straight individuals. We examine, withi...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Congrats to Emma and team for winning their session's poster award as well!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Have any specific questions about accessing and using NCHAT data? Connect with the NCHAT team at our upcoming virtual office hours TOMORROW (April 16) from 10:00-11:30am CT (in conjunction with IPUMS). Registration is required, but you can drop in anytime! umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Population Data Virtual Office Hours hosted by IPUMS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for virtual office hours on Wednesday, April 16 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. This month we also have special data guest NCHAT. Registration is required to attend virtu...
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
That’s a wrap on #PAA2025! Safe travels getting home, everyone! Follow this account for updates regarding NCHAT publications and data releases!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
One last NCHAT poster presentation today at 10:30am in the Ballrooms! Go check out the poster by @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alex VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social on Collecting Dyadic Data on LGBTQ+ Partnerships!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
One last NCHAT paper presentation by Skyler Bastow, Miles Taylor, @clairekampdush.bsky.social, @wendymanning.bsky.social, and Alex VanBergen at 10:30am in LeDroit Park! Their paper is titled, “The Effects of Intersectional Stigma on the Depression of Non-White LGBTQ+ Populations.”
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Good morning! Another fabulous NCHAT presentation today at 9am in Gallery Place! @wendymanning.bsky.social and @gabriellejuteau.bsky.social’s paper is titled, “Children’s Family Structure in LGBQ+ Parent Families.”
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Be sure to check out another NCHAT project at the Family Demography poster session at 4pm in the Ballrooms! Great work by Emma Goldstein, Alex VanBergen and @clairekampdush.bsky.social about Digital Distractions and Parental Well-Being using our fabulous time diary data!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Be sure to check out Session 211 for @karenguzzo.bsky.social @gabriellejuteau.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social ’s paper using NCHAT, “Physical and Mental Health and Fertility Goals Among U.S. Couples” at 3:30pm in Capitol!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Good morning, everyone! Grab some coffee and check out Session 128 for an NCHAT presentation by @kris10gustafson.bsky.social, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alex VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social in LeDroit Park starting at 8am! #PAA2025
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Another fabulous poster using NCHAT!
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Congratulations to @meilers.bsky.social and team for their award-winning poster!! #PAA2025
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Come hang out with us at the LGBTQ Reception at Mount Vernon Square! #PAA2025
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Start your PAA morning by checking out @meilers.bsky.social, @clairekampdush.bsky.social, and Hyunjae Kwon's poster, “Household Division of Labor and Fertility Desires in the United States: Do Gender and Sexual Identity Matter?” at 10:30am in Liberty & Independence Ballrooms! #PAA2025
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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
PAA takes on Capitol Hill! These dedicated advocates will be meeting with their congressional delegations today to share important population research and advances. Go team! #PAA2025
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Safe travels to everyone getting to DC today! Hope to see everyone tonight at the Welcome Mixer! #PAA2025
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Less than one week until #PAA2025! We have some amazing NCHAT papers that we will post about on here. Hope to see everyone there!
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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If you are looking for a great research scientist, check out and connect to Dr. Alexandra VanBergen on LinkedIn! www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra...
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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.
This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Check out this paper examining pandemic stress and fertility plans using NCHAT! Great work, team! @wendymanning.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social @clairekampdush.bsky.social @gabriellejuteau.bsky.social
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out our newest publication by Ethan Morgan and his team using our biomarker data! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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LGBTQ+ identity and its association with inflammation and cellular immune function
Self-identification among lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, and other sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) is complex and multifaceted, yet few studies have exa…
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🚨New data release!!🚨
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The National Couples' Health and Time Study @nchatstudy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out our newest NCHAT publication on Health Care Stereotype Threat in AJPH!
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