Can men be trusted in population-based surveys to report couples’ medical care for infertility?

Table 2 Use of infertility medical care among respondents who ever tried to have a child^a

	Respondent’s gender		P-Value ^b
	Male	Female	P-Value ^b
Ever used medical care for infertility^c	21% (18–23)	24% (22–26)	0.04
Used medical care for infertility within the previous 15 years^c	16% (14–18)	17% (15–18)	0.43
Ever treated for infertility^c	12% (10–14)	13% (12–15)	0.16

^aAll percentages are weighted with 95% confidence intervals in brackets
^bP-value of the chi-square test comparing the female and male respondents’ distributions. To take into account the complex sampling design of the Fecond survey, the subpopulation option in Stata® was used for correct calculation of the standard errors of the estimates
^cEither the respondents and/or their partners

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