Young Adults in the United States: A Mid-Decade Profile
Research Network Working Paper September 2007
45 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2011
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
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