Research report on Impact of Load shedding

on Life in Urban areas of Multan

Presented By:

Arif Masood [50]

Muhammad Safdar [49]
Asif Rehman [36]
 Objectives & Methodology

Presented By:

Muhammad Safdar [49]

 Background of Research

In recent Past Pakistan has been victim of severe

power shortage which has resulted in heavy load
shedding. Reasons said to be as following,.

 Poor Future Planning.

 Increasing demand in recent years but no
increase in supply.
 No new projects in last 10 years.
 High petroleum prices to some extent.
Objectives of Research
To determine how and to which extent load
shedding has affected Life.

To determine actions taken in response of

Load shedding.

To find out solutions which people are

ready to take at personal level.
Methodology [ Major Points]
Research – Basic in nature
Population size: Residents of Multan
Sample size: 58
Sampling technique: Convenient
sampling
Nature of Data collected: Primary
Data
Data collection Instrument:
Questionnaire
Findings of Research Survey

Presented By:

ASIF REHMAN [36]

 Findings of Research Report

Demographic Section
65 % Female and 35% Male.
More than 80% were below 25 in age.
Majority of Correspondents belonged to below
3000 and 3000-8000 category.
70% correspondents were Student, 21 % were
Job holders, rest were from business and
household category.
 Age & Gender Contingency
Chart
35

30

25

20
Female
Male
15

10

0
15-20 20-25 25-30 30+
Experienced Hours of Load
Shedding
 No concentration observed in response to
this question possibly because of timing of
survey.

35
30
25
Percentage

20
15
Hours Of Load Shedding
10
5
0
below2 2-4hours 4-8hours 8+hours
Hours Range
Bearable Hours of Load
shedding
 For more than 80% of correspondents
bearable hours were either 0 or below 2.

Bearable hours

8+hours
4-8 hours
2-4 hours
below2
0 hour

0 20 40 60 80
 Adopted any alternative or
Not?
Ø 52% have adopted Ø 48% have
NOT

No 0 84.6% 15.4% UPS

Generator
Emergency Light
don’t Need
Yes 40.6 18.8 40.6% NeedONE

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Affected Activities

70
60
50
40
30 63.8
46.6
20 36.2 36.2
10
0 3.4
Domestic Study\BIZ Rest\Shedule Enterntainment Other
 Solutions at personal level
62.1

70
48.3

60

32.8
50

40

30
5.2
20

10

0
Efficient Equipment Reduce wrong usage Innovative Solutions Other
Limitations & Recommendations

Presented By:

ARIF Masood [50]

 Hypothesis Of Study
 As income level increases, Number of bearable
able hours decrease.
2
1.88
1.5
1.25
hours 1
1 1.06
0.8
0.5

0
below 3000 3000-8000 8000-15000 15000-25000 25000+
Hypothesis was proved partially to be true.
Category acted as intervening variable in
between independent variable (income
level) and Bearable able hours(Dependent
Variable).

Bearable
Income Level Category .. Hours

Independent Variable Intervening Variable Dependent Variable

Limitations of
Research
Small sample size.
Inefficient sampling
technique.
Time Factor.
 Recommendations

 Government should facilitate people who

are ready to take solutions at personal
level by providing them technical
guidance and by announcing incentives
for them.

Government and Power supply authorities

should schedule load shedding hours in
such a way that it affects consumer least.