For the fourth year in a row, Gallup reports that Hawaii ranked No. 1 in its well-being index.
Also for the fourth year in a row, poor West Virginia came in last.
The Gallup-Healthways well-being metric, akin to happiness, is intended to measure the elements of “the good life.†In daily surveys of at least 1,000 people each time, Gallup asks respondents about their health, work satisfaction, whether they worried r smiled the previous day, and so on.
Hawaii actually got happier from 2011 to 2012, and West Virginia got a little worse off. The country as a whole has not changed much over the last five years even as the economy has improved.
As I reported a couple years ago, other traits besides geography correlate with higher levels of well-being, including being male, Asian, tall, a religious Jew, self-employed, higher-income, married and a parent. I actually found such a person, Alvin Wong, who says he is indeed very happy.
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