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Population Studies Re-conceptualizing music education

criteria set for the studies limit our study in many ways. First, Consent for publication
we only searched for papers written in English, which may
imply a bias related to academic publication systems and Not applicable.
language spheres. Second, to guarantee scientific quality, Availability of data
we only included peer-reviewed empirical publications,
thus omitting other types of publications which may have Supporting data can be obtained from corresponding
been relevant. However, our dataset of 68 final selected author following formal request.
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