Most common consonant cluster types cross-linguistically

Is there any comparative data available on what are the most
common kinds of consonant cluster across different languages?
E.g., my impression is that nasal + nasal and plosive + plosive
onset clusters as in Greek (mnemo, ptera, etc) are rarer than
clusters that mix different manners of articulation, like fricative + plosive
or plosive + fricative; but how much has this been quantified?
A Google search for "most common consonant clusters" didn't
turn up anything precisely relevant.  The closest fit
was this CONLANG message from 2002 by Christophe Grandsire,

http://archives.conlang.info/vhu/wilso/phinthofian.html

helpful, but not as quantitative as I'd like.

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Jim Henry
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I analyze the results and write the article

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