Stage of Life's statistics about high school students and teens:

3.2%: Percentage of jobs in America that go to teenage workers.  However, the teen unemployment rate neared 28% in October of 2009 - the highest recorded since the Federal Government began tracking it (and this is nearly triple the 10% rate for all workers).

SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Stastistics / TIME Jan.18 2010 issue

31: Number of hours per week teens spend online in 2009

SOURCE:  Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)

85%: Percentage of teen girls who say they are stressed about the economy (verses 75% of teen boys)

SOURCE:  2009 survey completed by Bank of America and Seventeen.

69%: Percentage of teen girls who are stressed about finding a way to pay for college (verses 59% of teen boys).  Teen girls are also more likely than boys to have feelings of depression or fear, fights with family, and fights with friends because of money.

SOURCE:  2009 survey completed by Bank of America and Seventeen.

40%: Percentage of teen girls who think that their parents should bail them out of a tough money situation, no matter how old they are.

SOURCE:  2009 survey completed by Bank of America and Seventeen

4 in 10: Number of teens who have had to alter their college plans in some way because of the current economic downturn, while one in 5 had to either go with their second choice college because of cost or attend a state school instead of a private one in order to save money.

SOURCE:  2009 survey completed by Bank of America and Seventeen.

More likely: Adolescents who live in households that struggle to afford food are more likely than others to be overweight.  Teens who are "food insecure" - that is, who are regularly unable to get enough to eat due to economic difficulties - reported eating behaviors associated with obesity.

SOURCE:  Project EAT from University of Minnesota Medical School 2009

28%: Percentage of U.S. high school students who reported falling asleep in school at least once a week due to not getting the recommended nine hours of sleep per night (only 20% of teens said they get nine hours of sleep a night). 

SOURCE:  National Sleep Foundation

74%: Percentage of U.S. teenagers (13-17 years old) who say they are worried about the economy.

SOURCE:  MONEY July 2009

15%: Percentage of U.S. teenagers who expect to die young, according to a survey of 20,000 teens.

SOURCE:  TIME July 13, 2009

60%: Percentage of male high school students who told researchers they plan to cut their work hours when they become fathers.

SOURCE:  TIME June 29, 2009

2,272: Number of text messages sent and received by the "average" American teenager each month (almost 80 texts messages a day).

SOURCE:  Nielson Co. June 2009

33%: Percentage of teens that create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including friends, groups they belong to or school assignments.

SOURCE:  The Parents & Teens 2006 Survey sponsored by the Pew Internet & American Life Project obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 935 teens age 12 to 17 years old and their parents living in continental United States. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC, from October 23 to November 19, 2006.

3.3 million:  Projected number of high school diplomas that will be awarded in the 2008-09 school year.

Source: Upcoming Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2009, Table 21

76%:  Proportion of people 65 and older in 2007 with at least a high school diploma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau - Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

86%: Percent of women 25 and older who had completed high school as of 2006.

85%: Percent of men.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau - Educational Attainment in the United States: 2006 

76%:  Proportion of people 65 and older in 2007 with at least a high school diploma.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau - Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

2 out of 3: Percentage of teenagers that influence at least half of the items a family purchases.

SOURCE:  National Retail Federation survey published by Information Week on July 19, 2007.

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