Maria Salerno
  • Marketing, English
  • Class of 2019
  • Salem, WI

Salem student presents research at seventh annual Celebration of Scholars event

2017 May 2

Carthage College held the seventh annual Celebration of Scholars event on Friday, April 28, 2017. Celebration of Scholars is a poster exhibition that features original research, scholarship, and creative work completed by Carthage students.

Maria Salerno of Salem presented "Portrayal of Millennials in the Public Sphere: A Data Comparison Across Generations" at the event.

This is the project's abstract:

"The Millennial generation is often portrayed by the media and popular culture as being something different from previous generations. These portrayals typically include a range of life-issues such as whether millennials lack motivation for employment, still live with their parents, are economically depressed, and are less politically involved. Many of these characterizations lack a foundation in real data or analysis. This research addresses that problem and will examine differences between the millennial generation and other generations on a range of dimensions including employment, income, marital status, and age of marriage, and residential location using Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) data. IPUMS data represent a sample of respondents to the U.S. Decennial Census and the American Community Survey long form questionnaire. Data are harmonized so comparisons and statistical tests for differences are possible across generations. These data and the results of our statistical tests for difference of means will be compared to the assertions commonly found in the media and popular culture."