“…Through the analysis of the experimental spectroscopic factors of stripping and pick-up reactions the occupation numbers of the orbits close to the Fermi level can be extracted. This has been recently done, or is under investigation at the moment, for neutrons or for both neutrons and protons in 76 Ge, 76 Se, 100 Mo, * jenni.kotila@jyu.fi † jbarea@udec.cl 100 Ru, 130 Te, 130 Xe, 136 Xe, 136 Ba, 150 Nd, and 150 Sm in a series of very careful experiments [1][2][3][4][5]. These nuclei are candidates to participate in neutrinoless double-β decay and recently the role of the chosen single-particle valence space and orbital occupancies has also become one of the central issues in the calculation of the double-β-decay nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) [1,2,[6][7][8].…”