About 2.4 million married couples, with the wives 15-44 years of age, were infertile in 1982
by the conventional medical definition of infertility-a married couple with 12 months or more …

In 1988, about 4.9 million women 15-44 years of age had an impaired ability to have
children. These women comprised 8.4 percent, or about 1 in 12, of the 57.9 million women …

" Some popular descriptions of infertility have suggested that there are nine or ten million
infertile couples, that one in six couples is infertile, that infertility is increasing rapidly, or that …

This article estimates the number of women of reproductive age who need infertility services
because they want to have children but suffer impairments of their own or their partners' …

In 1982, about half of all American married couples with wives in the childbearing ages were
currently sterile or had some childbearing impairment. Almost 8 million of these couples …

The first national estimates of current fecundity status of women of all marital statuses
indicate that, in 1982, about 5.1 million women were unable to have a future birth but would …

Materials and Methods In this analysis we used three sources of data on infertility: the 1965
National Fertility Study and the 1973 and 1976 National Surveys of Family Growth. Because …

TECHNICAL, REPORT SERIES Page 1 This report contains the collective views of an
international group of experts and does not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated …

Epidemiologic studies can define the extent to which infertility is a public health problem by
measuring the population prevalence and distribution of infertility, and trends in prevalence …

Methods: Using data from the 1982, 1988 and 1995 rounds of the NSFG, trends in both the
proportions and numbers of women with impaired fecundity and of those who received …