Atlantic: Today's 27 Yr Olds, in Charts

"What are today's young adults really like?" asks Jordan Weissman @ the Atlantic.

In the spring of 2002, the government's researchers began tracking a group of roughly 15,000 high school sophomores—most of whom would be roughly age 27 today—with the intention of following them through early adulthood.

In 2012, the government’s researchers handed their subjects an enormous survey about their lives in the real world. Here, I've pulled together the most interesting findings. (One important note: I've shorthanded this group as "today's 27-year-olds." But again, not all of the study participants are precisely that age.)

Below are a few of the charts Weissman developed from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002.

For more, see Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today's 27-Year-Olds, in Charts.