Posted on 04/24/2013 7:20:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hawaii residents remained the least likely in the U.S. to say they felt stressed on any given day in 2012, at 32.1%. West Virginia residents, on average, were the most likely to report feeling stress, at 47.1%.
These state-level data are based on daily surveys conducted from January through December 2012 and encompass more than 350,000 interviews as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Nationwide, 40.6% of Americans reported feeling stressed "yesterday" in 2012, similar to past years.
Gallup has measured daily stress in its tracking survey since 2008. Hawaii has ranked as the state with the lowest percentage of residents reporting stress on the prior day all five years and is the only state to rank in the top five consistently since 2008. West Virginia, Kentucky, and Utah, have each ranked within the top five most stressed states for the past five years. West Virginia ranked as the most stressed state in 2012, Kentucky was the top state for stress in 2008 and 2011, and Utah was the top state for stress in 2009 and 2010.
For all of the states, stress levels were statistically unchanged in 2012 compared with 2011. Regionally, states with stress levels at or above 42% were clustered in the Northeast and Midwest, but also included Utah, Oregon, and Washington.
Lowest Stress States Report Most Enjoyment
Two of the five states with the lowest stress levels, Hawaii and Wyoming, also boasted the highest levels of enjoyment in 2012. In Hawaii, 89.7% of residents said they experienced enjoyment the day before the survey and 88.8% said so in Wyoming.
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Take away their welfare and see how that stress quotient changes.
Also state with most welfare?
When the OPM runs out, that is precisely what is going to happen.
Hawaii is also run by socialist/communists. Remember it was the temporary home of the Halfrican president and he is so stressed out he smokes like a furnace, but in those halcyon Hawaii days he was mellowed out on cocaine.
Do those other states have high numbers on welfare?
I love Hawaii as my adopted home state but it’s always been a ward of the federal government.
It’s like being locked up inside of Disneyland.
humuhumunukunukuapua’a. (aka trigger fish) I love their alaphabet too.
RE: Also state with most welfare?
Not really. But it’s up there.
SOURCE: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_rec_percap-caseloads-total-recipients-per-capita
STATES/TERRITORIES WITH THE MOST WELFARE RECIPIENTS PER CAPITA:
Rank States Amount
# 1 District of Columbia: 7.835 per 100 people
# 2 Guam: 6.397 per 100 people
# 3 Rhode Island: 3.319 per 100 people
# 4 Tennessee: 3.026 per 100 people
# 5 California: 3.005 per 100 people
# 6 Maine: 2.842 per 100 people
# 7 Alaska: 2.4 per 100 people
# 8 West Virginia: 2.283 per 100 people
# 9 Indiana: 2.241 per 100 people
# 10 Washington: 2.238 per 100 people
# 11 New Mexico: 2.23 per 100 people
# 12 Vermont: 2.044 per 100 people
# 13 Michigan: 2.001 per 100 people
# 14 Hawaii: 1.993 per 100 people
# 15 Montana: 1.932 per 100 people
# 16 Arizona: 1.875 per 100 people
# 17 Missouri: 1.872 per 100 people
# 18 Kentucky: 1.838 per 100 people
# 19 Minnesota: 1.825 per 100 people
# 20 New York: 1.771 per 100 people
# 21 Iowa: 1.743 per 100 people
# 22 Massachusetts: 1.695 per 100 people
# 23 Pennsylvania: 1.669 per 100 people
# 24 Ohio: 1.641 per 100 people
# 25 Mississippi: 1.547 per 100 people
# 26 Nebraska: 1.54 per 100 people
# 27 Delaware: 1.464 per 100 people
# 28 Texas: 1.459 per 100 people
# 29 Georgia: 1.455 per 100 people
# 30 Kansas: 1.424 per 100 people
# 31 Puerto Rico: 1.394 per 100 people
# 32 North Dakota: 1.351 per 100 people
# 33 US Virgin Islands: 1.25 per 100 people
# 34 Louisiana: 1.241 per 100 people
# 35 Connecticut: 1.233 per 100 people
# 36 Oregon: 1.197 per 100 people
# 37 New Jersey: 1.168 per 100 people
# 38 New Hampshire: 1.15 per 100 people
# 39 South Carolina: 1.129 per 100 people
# 40 Maryland: 1.108 per 100 people
# 41 Nevada: 1.07 per 100 people
# 42 Oklahoma: 1.014 per 100 people
# 43 Alabama: 0.98 per 100 people
# 44 North Carolina: 0.966 per 100 people
# 45 Virginia: 0.928 per 100 people
# 46 Arkansas: 0.913 per 100 people
# 47 Utah: 0.883 per 100 people
# 48 Wisconsin: 0.862 per 100 people
# 49 South Dakota: 0.792 per 100 people
# 50 Illinois: 0.783 per 100 people
# 51 Colorado: 0.747 per 100 people
# 52 Florida: 0.669 per 100 people
# 53 Idaho: 0.224 per 100 people
# 54 Wyoming: 0.143 per 100 people
Weighted average: 1.7 per 100 people
I have an VERY DIFFICULT TIME believing that DC only has 8/100.
Personally, I am stressed by the number of daily polls I am asked to participate in.
The last place I care to live is on top of a volcano with only a seven day food supple.
Any Freepers from Hawaii care to comment?
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