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Response: ABS’s comments on ‘Estimating Indigenous life expectancy: pitfalls with consequences’

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Patrick Corr, Nicholas McTurk and Jill Charker of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for their useful comments and suggestions on this rejoinder.

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Shahidullah, M. Response: ABS’s comments on ‘Estimating Indigenous life expectancy: pitfalls with consequences’. J Pop Research 29, 283–287 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-012-9096-3

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