The average 25-year-old in Croatia has a job in their profession, sleeps five to seven hours, spends more than six hours on their smartphone daily, engages in sports, obtains information online, is politically neutral, and still lives with their parents, a survey conducted by the Hendal market research agency shows.

Celebrating 25 years of its work this year, Hendal carried out a survey of the lives, habits and opinions of people who were born in 1993 when it began operating.

Currently, 49,000 25-year-olds live in Croatia.

The survey, conducted in October on a sample of 172 people, shows that 43 percent of them still live with their parents and one in three lives with their partner.

Thirty-eight percent said they are completely independent financially and as many said that they are mainly financially independent.

Two thirds (67 percent) of those interviewed do not have their own house or apartment but plan on buying one. For that purpose, 38 percent save money regularly and as many do so periodically.

Most of them plan to get married and have children. Twenty-eight percent said they would certainly get married and 30 percent said they would most likely do so. As for children, 70 percent said they plan on having one or more children.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents are gainfully employed, 26 percent are still in school, and 16 percent are jobless and looking for work. Every other respondent said they are satisfied to a certain extent with their present job, as would be expected given that 59 percent said they are working in their profession and 22 percent said they are not working in their profession because it’s their choice.

As expected, Croatian 25-year-olds cannot do without their smartphones; 43 percent use them more than six hours daily, and 27 percent use them for three to six hours.

The survey revealed that young people most often spend their leisure time cooking, rather than clubbing or going to the cinema or theatre.

Seventy-seven percent said that they never take soft drugs, 62 percent never smoke, 36 percent drink alcohol from time to time and 42 percent do so only on special occasions.

Forty-three percent do sports, mostly jogging, walking, cycling or exercising at home. Sixty-one percent sleep five to seven hours and 29 percent eight to nine hours.

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