1.1. DEMOGRAPHIC COHORT FOLLOWING THE BABY BOOMERS AND PRECEDING THE MILLENNIALS
1.2. INCLUDES PEOPLE BORN BETWEEN 1965 AND 1980
1.3. THE CHILDHOOD OF GENERATION X COINCIDED WITH THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION OF THE SIXTIES TO EIGHTIES
2. Y GENERATION
2.1. DEMOGRAPHIC COHORT FOLLOWING GENERATION X AND PRECEDING GENERATION Z
2.2. THE PERIOD FROM THE EARLY 1980S TO THE END OF THE 1990S AND UP TO 2000.
2.3. MILLENNIALS WILL BE MORE LIKE THE GI GENERATION WITH A STRONG SENSE OF BOTH LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
3. Z GENERATION
3.1. DEMOGRAPHIC COHORT THAT FOLLOWS THE Y GENERATION
3.2. STARTS BETWEEN THE MID-1990S AND THE 2000
3.3. GENERATION Z ARE OFTEN CHILDREN OF GENERATION X, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE PARENTS WHO ARE MILLENNIALS.
4. THE SILENT GENERATION
4.1. DEMOGRAPHIC COHORT FOLLOWING THE BABY BOOMERS AND PRECEDING THE BABY BOOMERS
4.2. INCLUDES PERSONS BORN BETWEEN 1928 AND 1945.
4.3. THE SILENT GENERATION WERE CHILDREN OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WHOSE PARENTS, AFTER HAVING ENJOYED THE HAPPY TWENTIES, NOW FACED GREAT ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND STRUGGLED TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES.
5. BABY BOOMERS GENERATION
5.1. DEMOGRAPHIC COHORT FOLLOWING THE SILENT GENERATION AND PRECEDING GENERATION X
5.2. INCLUDES PERSONS BORN BETWEEN 1946 AND 1964.
5.3. IN THE 1960S AND 1970S, WESTERN BABY BOOMERS DISCOVERED THAT THE MUSIC THEY LISTENED TO AND/OR PRODUCED, ESPECIALLY ROCK MUSIC, WAS ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF THEIR GENERATIONAL IDENTITY.
