Generations provide the opportunity to look at Americans both by their place in the life cycle — whether a young adult, a middle-aged parent or a retiree — and by their membership in a cohort of individuals who were born at a similar time.
Pew Research Center has been studying the Millennial generation for more than a decade. But by , it became clear to us that it was time to determine a cutoff point between Millennials and the next generation. In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work.
Anyone born between and ages 23 to 38 in is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from onward is part of a new generation. Since the oldest among this rising generation are just turning 22 this year, and most are still in their teens or younger, we hesitated at first to give them a name — Generation Z , the iGeneration and Homelanders were some early candidates.
But over the past year, Gen Z has taken hold in popular culture and journalism. While there is no scientific process for deciding when a name has stuck, the momentum is clearly behind Gen Z. They should be viewed primarily as tools, allowing for the kinds of analyses detailed above.
But their boundaries are not arbitrary. Generations are often considered by their span, but again there is no agreed upon formula for how long that span should be. At 16 years to , our working definition of Millennials is equivalent in age span to their preceding generation, Generation X born between and By this definition, both are shorter than the span of the Baby Boomers 19 years — the only generation officially designated by the U.
Census Bureau , based on the famous surge in post-WWII births in and a significant decline in birthrates after Unlike the Boomers, there are no comparably definitive thresholds by which later generational boundaries are defined. Millennials also grew up in the shadow of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which sharpened broader views of the parties and contributed to the intense political polarization that shapes the current political environment.
Eurostat data for In , this difference was much smaller, namely 0. Over the past three months, according to Eurostat data for Another reason is to keep up-to-date with the news and current affairs. See Ipsos , «The Millennial influence». See Malmendier, U. How does demographics affect economic growth, the reallocation of the model of production, the labour market and productivity?
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