ESS-08 / The good life
Is the midlife low moving?
Is Europe's midlife low disappearing?
PlannedWave 2Research question, not a published result
The question
Compare age profiles across rounds and countries, keeping age, generation and historical period separate where the evidence allows.
What the analysis will test
- Primary quantity
- Country-specific age profiles and synthetic-cohort wellbeing differences.
- Evidence
- ESS rounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Modules: core.
- Primary comparison
- Age-by-period profiles. 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
Repeated cross-sections are not individual aging trajectories; separating age, period and cohort requires assumptions.
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-08. Estimates and downloads will appear here after the data, statistical, editorial and reproducibility checks pass.