Age & Generations

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When we have the data to study groups of similarly aged people over time, we won’t always default to using the standard generational definitions and labels, like Gen Z, Millennials or Baby Boomers.

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reportOct 7, 2009

The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood

Young Latino adults in the United States are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations.
reportOct 7, 2009

Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap

Nearly nine-in-ten (89%) Latino young adults ages 16 to 25 say that a college education is important for success in life, yet only about half that number-48%-say that they themselves plan to get a college degree.
reportSep 3, 2009

Recession Turns a Graying Office Grayer

Older adults are staying in the labor force longer, and younger adults are staying out of it longer. Both trends intensified with the recession and are expected to continue after the economy recovers. One reason: Older workers value not just a paycheck, but the psychological and social rewards.
reportSep 3, 2009

Recession Turns a Graying Office Grayer

The American work force is graying — and not just because the American population itself is graying. Older adults are staying in the labor force longer, and younger adults are staying out of it longer.
short readsAug 28, 2009

The Beatles: Here, There, Everywhere

Half of all Americans like the Beatles a lot, placing them at the top of a 20-artist popularity contest.
reportAug 19, 2009

Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back

The Project first surveyed teenagers about their mobile phones in 2004 when a survey showed that 45% of teens had a cell phone. Since then mobile phone use has climbed steadily among teens to 63% in 2006 and 71% in 2008.
reportAug 12, 2009

Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Generation Gap

They have different values, beliefs and lifestyles, but young and old today are disagreeing without being disagreeable. Both also share a fondness for Woodstock-era rock and roll.
reportAug 7, 2009

Go West, Old Man

If a latter-day Ponce de Leon were to search for a modern fountain of youth, he’d do well to explore America’s West. There he’d find the highest concentration of older adults in the United States who don’t think of themselves as old.
short readsJul 13, 2009

Drivers Wanted

American life is driven by the automobile; not only is a car seen as an overwhelming necessity but most say not driving is a clear sign of old age.
short readsJul 13, 2009

Talkin’ ’bout my Generation

Most Americans believe there is a major difference between the views of younger and older people, and more than said so in 1969.

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Age & Generations

The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood

Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap

The Beatles: Here, There, Everywhere

Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back

Drivers Wanted

Talkin’ ’bout my Generation

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