Where Does Your State Reside In The Well-Being Index?

This time Mississippi didn't get last! Instead, for this particular survey, the 'sippi sits in third to last while West Virginia takes the bottom spot. Hawaii reigns supreme.

From January - December 2010, Gallup conducted surveys and used the data to form a well-being index, an index comprised of sub-indexes based on life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors and basic access. The results are based on 352,840 phone interviews with adults 18 or over. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell phone-only status, cell phone-mostly status, and phone lines.

The results follow mostly along the lines of what you'd expect: Southern states sit in 5 of the bottom 10 spots for well-being while Western states have 5 in the top 10. Vermont and Massachusetts scored highest in the healthy behaviors and basic access categories, respectively. The whole release is here. Drill down on as much data as you'd like.