Contrary to the Data Availability statement in [1,2], the individual-level underlying data supporting the article's results were not provided with the article.The corresponding author provided information on third-party datasets used in this article (provided here in S1 File).However, they did not provide the data underlying the figures and graphs on request, which the Editors consider to be necessary for compliance with the PLOS Data Availability policy.Therefore, the PLOS One Editors issue this Expression of Concern.We regret that the issues were not addressed prior to the article's publication.Additionally, there are errors in the dataset count values in Table 2 of [1].The corrected table is provided with this notice.
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