Abstract
The third round of the Brazilian Demographic Health Survey - PNDS-2006 - has revealed that 37% of all women at reproductive age have declared they were unable to conceive, for being either sterilized or infertile. The percentage rises to 57% in the group of women at the age of 35 to 49. If one takes into account the significant share of regret related to female sterilization and the incre…