ESS-22 / Health, climate & fairness
The long reach of childhood
Does childhood hardship still leave a health scar after age 50?
PlannedWave 2Research question, not a published result
The question
Follow the association through successive adjustments for adult circumstances, showing what each model changes and cannot establish.
What the analysis will test
- Primary quantity
- Sequentially adjusted association between reported childhood hardship and later-life health.
- Evidence
- ESS rounds 7, 11. Modules: health.
- Primary comparison
- Sequential-adjustment intervals. The final form depends on validated data and uncertainty.
- Publication threshold
- Pinned source editions, reviewed questionnaire comparability, survey-design-aware intervals, disclosure checks and reproducible aggregate outputs.
What this evidence does not prove
Retrospective reporting, survival and unobserved factors mean this is not an identified mediation or causal scar estimate.
The ESS interviews different probability samples in each round. It measures structural differences and change, not today's mood or the same individuals over time.
Sources and next release
This page reserves the permanent address for ESS-22. Estimates and downloads will appear here after the data, statistical, editorial and reproducibility checks pass.