Demographics

The concept of generation has evolved throughout times, expanding globally and socially on a vast area of interest. The global generations have encountered major traumatic events which are now historical in the 20th century. In fact, the growth of global communication, broadcast, and technology has enhanced the way people communicate from national wide standpoint. As well as technology itself, varies of device such as television, radio, automobiles have been invented during those times to make…

like authority figures. They don’t like being told what to do (Milligan, 2014, p.25).” As the saying goes they essentially “work to live not live to work”. Millennials or Generation Y were born from the early 1980’s to the early 2000’s. They are known for being the most tech-savvy out of all the generations. They are confrontational when it comes to authority. According to Meister & Willyerd, millennials are not willing to sacrifice their personal lives for their work lives. They view work as an…

Social media is more prominent with the younger demographic which is extremely helpful to corporations. It manages to link all parts of a company together with useful information to communicate. Two advantages of social media are: that it has cut lead time into customer responses, while demonstrating a personalized touch; also aiding in small business, with limited resources to reach customers on a global scale. In the event of finding a terrorist, using social media sites to instantly share…

Millennials. And, when you read studies, like the one done by Accenture that reports Millennials spend roughly $600 billion annually, you understand why companies like Coca Cola and Uber make marketing to this demographic their primary focus. However, in their mad dash to woo one demographic, marketers frequently ignore another: Baby boomers. And this is a mistake – a big one. In fact, according to Baby Boomer Magazine, roughly 40% of all consumers are baby boomers. That’s nearly half of the…

Over the past few decades and in the coming decades the structure of United States’ population is expected to change greatly. Changes in population are primarily focused on the older population as it is “important to public and private interest, both socially and economically” (Ortman, Velkoff, 2014, p. 1). To put it into perspective, the population of those 65 and over in 2050 is expected to be 83.7 million compared to the 431 million in 2012 mostly due to the baby boomer generation. While the…

Demographics are important when researching mental illnesses in individuals. These traits help professionals like epidemiologists gather data that can help decide what types of people could potentially become mentally ill. Epidemiologists will obtain demographics for surveying purposes. Information such as age, race, and marital status, to name a few, gives reliability in one’s study. (Cockerham 2014) Biological differences that men and women have, can contribute to mental illness. Women for…

Global Issue: The Influence of the Millennial Generation in Regards to Reshaping the American Values. Review of Subject Millennials are defined as people born between 1980 and 2000, with a population size of over 80 million and representing approximately 30% of the US population (King, 2016) which presents the largest growing consumer group since the Baby Boomers. Millennial’s are often looked at as the cash-cow of market segments due to this size and younger age (longer consuming future)…

The demographic transition is the population change in a country. It is divided into 4 stages, and each of these stages are determined by factors like economic stability, birth and mortality rates, increase rates, etc. Stage one of the demographic transition is a unique stage because it is the only stage in which no countries are in. This is because stage one countries have not hit the agricultural revolution, and all countries now have mastered farming and the domestication of animals. Other…

Quality Counts journal, hospital demographics are being looked at for evidence supporting fluctuation with readmission rates. Studies have been performed, and it has been determined through evidence-based practice and conducted research that hospital demographics do indeed play pivotal roles in patient care and the likelihood of readmissions (2015). These hospital demographics include size, location, and access. The size of the hospital is a great determining demographic among hospitals…

Cultural Transformation According to Kowske et al. (2010) and Holt, Marques, and Way (2012), cultural transformations for Generation Y came in the form of increased oversight by both parents and the U.S. Government, brought about by safety innovations, changes in family dynamics and new government regulations, and focus on team building exercises in both academia and through extracurricular activities such as sports (p. 266; p. 82). Per Holt et al. (2012), these changes lead to a generation that…