Young Adults in the United States: A Mid-Decade Profile

Research Network Working Paper September 2007

45 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2011

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Rubén G. Rumbaut

University of California, Irvine - Department of Sociology

Golnaz Komaie

Independent

Date Written: September 1, 2007

Abstract

Using merged mid-decade data through 2006 of the Current Population Survey (CPS), this report provides a detailed national-level profile of the more than 67 million young adults in the United States, ages 18 to 34. The report examines the growing size and diversity of this population, the living arrangements and types of jobs they hold, their education, poverty and annual income, marital status and family formation, as well as the types and interrelationships of their adult transitions, and the key role of education in shaping those changes into adult statuses. Age-sex pyramids of this population are sketched for specific ethnic and generational groups. The data are broken down and presented by age group (18-24, 25-29, 30-34), as well as by gender, nativity (foreign-born vs. native-born), generation, and race-ethnicity.

Keywords: Transitions to adulthood, young adults 18 to 34, living arrangements, education, poverty, income, marriage, family formation, immigrants, nativity, generation, race, ethnicity, diversity

Suggested Citation

Rumbaut, Rubén G. and Komaie, Golnaz, Young Adults in the United States: A Mid-Decade Profile (September 1, 2007). Research Network Working Paper September 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1887844 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1887844

Rubén G. Rumbaut (Contact Author)

University of California, Irvine - Department of Sociology ( email )

3151 Social Sciences Plaza A
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
United States

Golnaz Komaie

Independent

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