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Stuart McFadyen, Robert Hobart, An Alternative Measurement of Housing Costs and the Consumer Price Index, The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'Economique, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Feb., 1978), pp. 105-112
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