Context: Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.\n\nQuestion: when would you have to be born to be a millennial?
Please answer the following question by reasoning step-by-step.
the early 1980s
The relevant sentence in the passage is: There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

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The answer: the early 1980s