Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics and views of respondents

	Respondents with before/after measurement (n = 246)	Respondents with before/after measurement and participating partner (n = 74)
Sociodemographic characteristics (score range)
Respondent's sex (% female)	186 (76%)	52 (70%)
Age (in years; range 18‐40)	27 (24‐34)	29 (24‐34)
Religious (% yes)	85 (35%)	32 (43%)
Educational level
Low	20 (8%)	9 (12%)
Intermediate	127 (52%)	36 (49%)
High	99 (40%)	29 (39%)
Relationship characteristics
Duration relationship (in years; range 0‐25)	5.2 (2.8‐8.7)	6.3 (3.2‐9.6)
Relation satisfaction (1‐10)	8 (7‐10)	9 (8‐10)
Wish to have child
Yes	175 (71%)	56 (76%)
No	56 (23%)	15 (20%)
Already pregnant	15 (6%)	3 (4%)
Views towards couple‐based ECS
Attitude towards couple‐based ECS (1 = negative, 7 = positive)	5.2 (1.2)	5 (4‐6)
Objection towards receiving couple‐results only (% positive)	187 (76%)	58 (78%)
Difficulty of decision to take the test (1 = difficult, 5 = easy)	3.1 (1.0)	3.2 (1.0)
Intention to take the test (1 = likely; 7 = unlikely)	3 (2‐4)	3 (2‐5)