 Only half of the generation studied exceeded their parents economic standing by moving up one or more quintiles.Moving between quintiles is more frequent in the middle quintiles (2–4) than in the lowest and highest quintiles.Of those in one of the quintiles 2–4 in 1996, approximately 35% stayed in the same quintile; and approximately 22% went up one quintile or down one quintile (moves of more than one quintile are rarer).