Factors Affecting Household Electricity Consumption And Consumption Characteristics: Case Study of Abudwak District, Galmudug, Somalia

Author Name : Ibrahim Yasin Khalif , Abdullah Abdirahman Mahamud, Fee Faysal Ahmed, Farhan Abade Isse

ABSTRACT

Electricity can be described as all energy that enable human being to use as means of light, heat, cook, wash and watch in households and individuals. Demand of electricity is an important section for energy development and strategy of a country. Demand of electricity depends on many variables. The main purpose of this study is to find the factors that are affecting household electricity in  Abudwak district. The demand of electricity as a dependent variable, while Fridge, washing machine, TV and income of the household are explanatory variables. By using the Cochran’s formula, 157 respondents were selected, from Jun to August 2020 was collected this Data, SPSS version 25 were used to analyze this research. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were used in this study. The analysis was founded that there is higher statistically significant between the demand of Electricity and all the explanatory variables and it also reveal that there is no multicollinearity. So, the selected factors can play a dynamic part for demand of electricity in our country.

Keywords: Demand of electricity , Cochran’s formula, Multicollinearity and Explanatory variables.