3 students at Stanford University and one YC alum and their collaborators distributed an online survey to 1,330 independent contractors. This article provides a synopsis of the $99 report
What's interesting about this report, though, is the picture it provides of contract work for young adults, particularly those under 24. About 39 percent of the survey’s respondents said they were between age 18 and 24—the biggest age cohort. For select questions, the report broke out how these people answered questions as opposed to all other workers. Here’s what it found: