Table II.

Socio-demographic characteristics of 128 French CBRC patients.

	All patients (n = 128)		Oocyte donation				Sperm donation		Other casesa (n = 24)		Key differences between groupsb
			Greece (n = 22)		Spain (n = 65)		Belgium (n = 17)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Respondent's gender
Female	123	96	21	95	62	95	17	100	23	96
Male	5	4	1	5	3	5	0	0	1	4
Relationship statusc											Greece + Spain versus Belgium: P-Fisher < 0.01
Heterosexual couple	99	77	22	100	64	98	1	6	12	50
Female couple	14	11	0	0	0	0	12	71	2	8
Single woman	15	12	0	0	1	2	4	23	10	42
Woman's age (years)											Greece + Spain versus Belgium: P-χ2 < 0.01 for <43/≥43
27–37	39	31	6	27	11	17	13	76	9	37
38–42	53	42	8	37	31	48	4	24	10	42
43–48	32	25	6	27	22	34	0	0	4	17
49–50	3	2	2	9	0	0	0	0	1	4
Already have children
No	89	70	15	68	45	69	10	59	19	79
Yes	39	30	7	32	20	31	7	41	5	21
Woman's occupational level											Greece versus Spain versus Belgium: P-χ2 = 0.03
High	51	40	4	18	32	50	6	35	9	39
Low/intermediate	75	59	18	82	32	50	11	65	14	61
Place of residence											Greece versus Spain : P-χ2 = 0.07 for Paris region versus North-eastern France + other regions
Paris region	61	48	8	36	38	58	4	24	11	46
North-eastern France	29	23	2	9	13	20	8	47	6	25
Other	38	30	12	55	14	22	5	29	7	29

^a‘Other cases’ are detailed in Table I. They included French CBRC patients treated in Spain using sperm donation (n = 5), both sperm and oocyte donation (n = 5), embryo donation (n = 1), IVF (n = 6) and oocyte cryopreservation (n = 5), as well as patients treated in Belgium using surrogacy (n = 2).

^bP-χ²if the test is the χ² test, P-Fisher if the test is the Fisher test.

^cSame-sex couples and single women have legal access to ART in Spain and in Belgium but not in France. In Greece, single women have legal access to ART but same-sex couples do not.