Just how ‘millennial’ are you, anyway?

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Do you send texts? Read a daily newspaper? Watch TV for an hour or more each day? Have you created a Facebook profile?

These are just a few of the questions that determine how similar you are to Generation Y or the Millennials, born after 1980. The new Pew Research Center survey consists of 14 simple questions that will show how close you rate in your responses to Generations X, Y and baby boomers.

Take the quiz.

In the report based on its findings, the Pew Research Center cited reasons that respondents felt their generation was unique. Here were the top five responses for each generation.

Millennials
Technology use (24%)
Music/pop culture (11%)
Liberal/tolerant (7%)
Smarter (6%)
Clothes (5%)

Generation X
Technology use (12%)
Work ethic (11%)
Conservative/traditional (7%)
Smarter (6%)
Respectful (5%)

Baby Boomers
Work ethic (17%)
Respectful (14%)
Values/morals (8%)
“Baby Boomers” (6%)
Smarter (5%)

Silent Generation
WWII, Depression (14%)
Smarter (13%)
Honest (12%)
Work ethic (10%)
Values/morals (10%)

Read more from the Pew Center’s report.

Did you take the quiz? What were your results? Please leave a comment.

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