The Pew Research Center is giving the term “millennial” a new generational boundary and it’s set much sooner than some other researchers had suggested. Pew announced Thursday that going forward, it would be defining millennials as those born between the years 1981 and 1996 ― in other words, those ages 22 to 37 this year. The center’s definition narrows the millennial span from that earlier set by Neil Howe and William Strauss, the researchers credited with coining the term “millennial.” Several years ago, they had placed the cutoff year at 2004. “Recent research has shown dramatic shifts in youth behaviors, attitudes and lifestyles ― both positive and concerning ― for those who came of age in this era,” Dimock wrote. “What we don’t know is whether these are lasting generational imprints or characteristics of adolescence that will become more muted over the course of their adulthood.”

Source: Huffington Post March 01, 2018 23:03 UTC