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From Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics Number 104 � February 11, 1985 Fecundity and Infertility in the United States, 1965-82 by William D. Mosher, Ph. D., and William F. Pratt, Ph. D., Division of Vital Statistics In 1982, about half of all American married couples with was to classify couples into three major groups: surgically sterile wives in the childbearing ages were currently sterile or had (impossible to have a baby); impaired fecundity (nonsurgically some childbearing impairment. Almost 8 million of these couples sterile or difiicult or dangerous to have a baby); and fecund (no were voluntarily sterilized because they had had all the children known physical problem). The questions included the following they wanted. However, another approximately 6 million couples were unable or unlikely to have additional births, including As far as you know, is it possibIe or impossible for you . . . about 1.4 million couples who were childless. These and related to get pregnant (again)? statistics on fecundity and infertility in the United States are As far as you know, is there any problem or difilculty for from the National Survey of Family Growth, most recently you . . . to conceive or deliver a(notber) baby? conducted in 1982 by the National Center for Health Statistics. This report presents, for the first time, preliminary nation- In these questions, the words “as far as you know” are wide statistics on the fecundity