Generational cutoff points aren’t an exact science. In the meantime, we will simply call them “post-Millennials” until a common nomenclature takes hold. Since the oldest among this rising generation are just turning 21 this year, and most are still in their teens, we think it’s too early to give them a name – though The New York Times – and we look forward to watching as conversations among researchers, the media and the public help a name for this generation take shape. Anyone born between 19 (ages 22 to 37 in 2018) will be considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward will be part of a new generation. In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center will use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Turning 37 this year, the oldest Millennials are, and they first entered adulthood before today’s youngest adults were born. But as we enter 2018, it’s become clear to us that it’s time to determine a cutoff point between Millennials and the next generation. Pew Research Center has been studying the for. While younger and older adults may differ in their views at a given moment, generational cohorts allow researchers to examine how today’s older adults felt about a given issue when they themselves were young, as well as to describe how the trajectory of views might differ across generations. They can provide a way to understand how different formative experiences (such as world events and technological, economic and social shifts) interact with the life-cycle and aging process to shape people’s views of the world. The key difference is that Benjamin was far more agile than Jordan, while Jordan is stronger than The Gold Standard. Michael Dimock, president of Pew Research Center As we’ve examined in, generational cohorts give researchers a tool to analyze changes in views over time. Generations provide the opportunity to look at Americans both by their place in the life cycle – whether a young adult, a middle-aged parent or a retiree – and by their membership in a cohort of individuals who were born at a similar time. One lens often employed by researchers at the Center to understand these differences is that of generation. For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups.