Preliminary Study on Youth Lifestyle with Regards to Energy Saving
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2018-11-30 
https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.35.22864
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Abstract
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.
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Salleh, N. S. M. (2018). Preliminary Study on Youth Lifestyle with Regards to Energy Saving. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.35), 468-471. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.35.22864Received date: 2018-12-02
Accepted date: 2018-12-02
Published date: 2018-11-30