How much does your information change?

Everything around us has an expiration date, beit stamped on the side of the loaf of bread or by natural progression.  Your personal data is no different and is subjected to a life cycle like everything else in the world.   When your data changes, and it will how do you manage it? How do you manage letting the right people know the changes?  ShoalID will handel letting the correct connections know what has changed with your information. 

So let’s look at just a few examples of how often your information can change.  We have pulled data from the Census Bureau, Major communication carriers, Polling companies and other industry leading companies that are relevant to the topic to give an understanding of how much data changes.    

PHONE NUMBERS

23%

PhoneArena conducted a vote of 1,876 respondents. 23% changed their phone number more than once per year. 32% of voters said they changed their phone numbers each year. 45% change their phone number every 2 years or longer.
 
Data from a Gallup poll returned more than half of users are keeping their phones beyond two years. The Gallup poll supports using the PhoneArena data since it also measured more than half of cell phone users. Combined they indicate that phone number switching does not entirely rely upon new phone purchases; since new numbers outpace new phones.

CHANGING JOBS/CAREERS

The average American typically changes jobs 10 to 15 times in their lifetime. However, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, does not keep track of career changes because there is no agreement on what constitutes a career change. So no one really knows how many people shift to a second career. So looking at the length of employment at a position.

Average Length of Time at a Job is estimated at 4.6 Years

The median number of years that wage and salary workers have worked for their current employer is currently 4.6 years, according to an Economic News Release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

4.6

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

8.6

Internet users on social media have an average of 8.6 accounts

The average user has an account on more than 8 different social media platforms, and spends an average of 2 hours and 29 minutes using social media each day.

MOVING

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the average person in the United States moves residences more than 11.4 times in his or her lifetime.

11.4

WHAT INFORMATION CHANGES

To answer that question we need to first identify what personal information are we referring to.

We have listed out just a few things that are considered personal information:

National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122[5] defines personally identifiable information as “any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.

  • Name
  • Email addresses
  • Home Addresses (other physical addresses)
  • Home Phone numbers
  • Driver’s license numbers
  • Bank account numbers
  • Credit card numbers
  • Cell Phone Numbers
  • Social Security Numbers
  • Social Media Addresses
  • Career Information
    • Position title
    • Company Name
    • Phone Number
    • Email
    • Company Address
  • Any unique biometric data

So what affects our personal Information?

  • Buying or renting a home is something everyone experiences over their lifetime and that has an impact on their personal information.
  • Using the information provided by the U. S. Census Bureau, out of a population of 282,556,000 people, 40,093,000 have moved. That’s an overall percentage of 14.19 percent annually.
    • Why do people move?​(US Census)
      • Renting to Owning ​
      • Job Relocation​
      • Better or Bigger Home​
      • Affordability​
      • Changes In The Family​
      • Life Style
  • Broken/lost phone (loss of all data stored on phone)
  • New Cellular carrier (Switching to new plan, new phone number)
  • New Career/new position
  • New technologies
  • New Social Media platforms
  • Name changes (Marriage/Divorce)