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    Main findings: Teens, technology, and human potential in 2020

    Respondents’ thoughts Hyperconnected. Always on. These terms have been invented to describe the environment created when people are linked continuously through tech devices to other humans and to global intelligence. Teens and young adults have been at the forefront of the rapid adoption of the mobile internet and the always-on lifestyle it has made possible. […]

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    Appendix A: Data Sources and Methodology

    Survey of Income and Program Participation The figures on the wealth of households are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). SIPP is one of the few nationally representative data sources on the assets and liabilities of households. SIPP has periodically asked a detailed set of questions on assets […]

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    Chapter 1: Wealth Gaps by Age

    Household median net worth in the U.S. stood at $71,635 in 2009. Across age groups, net worth varied from just $3,662 for households headed by adults younger than 35 to $170,494 for households headed by adults ages 65 and older. Net worth was $39,601 for households headed by 35- to 44-year-olds, $101,651 for households headed […]

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    Chapter 7: Trends in Household Wealth, 1984 to 2009

    Estimates of household wealth by race and ethnicity from SIPP are available starting in 1984. The time series is not entirely consistent because of a redesign of the SIPP panel in 1996 and changes to the racial identity question in 2004.[18. numoffset=”18″ See Orzechowski and Sepielli (2003) for more on the SIPP redesign. The racial […]