Open AccessPreliminary Study on Youth Lifestyle with Regards to Energy Saving
Author(s) -
Nur Shakirah Md Salleh
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-524X
DOI - 10.14419/ijet.v7i4.35.22864
Subject(s) - electricity , energy (signal processing) , environmental economics , information and communications technology , business , consumption (sociology) , energy consumption , marketing , computer science , engineering , economics , sociology , electrical engineering , mathematics , world wide web , social science , statistics
The advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) leads the increasing number of digital devices. The paper focuses on a preliminary study in discovering the youth lifestyle including electricity usage and preferred electricity appliances towards energy saving. This research carried out one of the data gathering techniques; survey, to find the level of the youth lifestyle towards energy saving among youth in a higher level-learning institute. This paper shares the processes and algorithm in finding the result of this type of study. The results derived from the algorithm show that 67.15% of the respondents are implementing energy saving in their lifestyle. This lifestyle partially influences their preferences in choosing electrical appliances with 78.74% of the respondents are looking forward to energy saving products that comes with a known brand and affordable price.