Baby Boomers

OK, done.

Definitely too old - born in 1939

Thank you very much, everyone! I am so excited about the great number of responses I am receiving!

Done.

All done

Done.

1947 so I just scrape in.

Too old born 1944

I feel quite put out to discover that I am not a baby boomer!

Elegran, thanks so much for your input! I went with the age bracket for baby boomers that I found on the National Association of Baby Boomers for example and also several of the books that I used for my research set the age bracket for baby boomers from 1946 to 1964.

As a pre-baby-boomer (pre-war baby, in fact) I remember very clearly the sudden crop of cousins who arrived in the first years after the wartime hiatus. I wonder who first decreed that the boom stretched so far? Probably someone who suffered from the delusion that the boom was in average income and living standards, not in babies.

Very odd.

I Googled it, Elegran, and those years are apparently standard for the classification of baby boomers - strange as it seems to me, too!

kathy i am not even sure I would include 1964 in the babyboomer era. My interpretation of it is approximately ten years from 1943 on - maybe fifteen years at the most to allow for returning ex-servicemen to complete their families. That takes us up to 1958 or so.

We may all seem much the same great age to you from your young standpoint, but a few years make all the difference - think of those who are ten years older or younger than you. I have children born within your parameters, and I would not count them as baby-boomers.

I recently did a survey for a Plymouth Uni student's doctorate and got an M and S voucher for £5

Just had a look Kathy and find I am too old - born 1943.

I've always thought of myself as an early baby boomer though!

It's quite standard now to find participants for research through the net.

Kathy I'll do your survey in the next hour or two.

Never mind education - I don't live in a city!

absent I saw undergraduate level, but then there was only a coverall for postgraduate that doesn't separate degree graduate and masters, and then it goes on to PhD. Wasn't sure where I was supposed to tick.

Well that is fine if you asked permission Kathy but we do from time to time have students who do not. And not infrequently people who are trying to advertise in a covert way, by saying "please fill in my survey". If you are doing an MBA you will be familiar with these indirect methods of marketing.
You have not upset me. Perhaps if GN were to indicate that non-members had asked their permission then it would be clear that it is not an unwanted approach.
Gransnet owns the site - in other words an offshoot of Mumsnet.

Don"t think she"s barging in , she did ask permission , just for interest sake who does own this sight ?

Dear JessM, I am so sorry for upsetting you! I did send an email to the owners of the website. If it was not OK for me to post my survey request here, I have asked them to remove it as I cannot do that myself. It was absolutely not my intention to abuse this site at all. I was just talking to a friend yesterday, telling her about my difficulties in finding respondents to my survey and she recommended that I post a link to the survey here.

kathy this is a social networking site and it has owners. Before using the site for such a purpose it would polite, to say the least, to contact the owners and ask permission!
You would not barge into any other organisation and start recruiting its members or customers for your research without asking permission would you? Part of learning to do research is learning how to do it ethically and professionally.

when It does give undergraduate level, just above postgraduate.

Kathy your list of education levels is a bit confusing as it only refers to postgraduate university, and not degree with or without honours.