Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life
How Important is Having Children to the Middle Class?
Notes: Based on respondents who identified themselves as belonging to the middle class. Not too important and not important at all responses are combined. Don't know responses not shown.
Survey Date: January 24-February 19, 2008
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As Incomes Rise, So Do Estimates of the Cost of a Middle Class Lifestyle
Differing Priorities of Middle Class Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics
Home Ownership Among the Middle Class
How Important is Being Married to the Middle Class?
How Important is Being Wealthy to the Middle Class?
How Important is Free Time to the Middle Class?
How Important is Having a Successful Career to the Middle Class?
How Important is Having Children to the Middle Class?
How the Middle Class Sees The Future
How the Middle Class Sees Their Lives
Importance of Being Wealthy, by Class
Life Priorities Vary Little by Class
Life's Priorities: Time Over Money
Middle Class Priorities, by Age
Middle Class Priorities, by Gender
Middle Class: What Does the Next Five Years Hold for You?
Pets Make Little Difference in Happiness
Section 1: What I Have, What Most People Have
The Importance of Free Time by Age