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Population Studies Development service in East Malaysia Suburban

and mobility of the residents as well as their daily Author contributions
socioeconomic activities need to be well-understood for
more effective and efficient socioeconomic development Conceptualization: Boo Ho Voon, Phang Ing, Muhammad
service provision and improvement purposes. Abang Azlan, Vloreen Nity Mathew
Formal analysis: Boo Ho Voon, Phang Ing, Muhammad
4. Concluding remarks Abang Azlan, Vloreen Nity Mathew, Kelvin Tee Yong
Goh
This empirical research employed both qualitative and Investigation: Boo Ho Voon, Phang Ing, Muhammad
quantitative techniques to achieve the intended research Abang Azlan, Vloreen Nity Mathew, Kelvin Tee Yong
objectives. The socioeconomic development services for Goh
the suburban population were explored in the qualitative Methodology: Boo Ho Voon, Phang Ing, Corina Joseph,
phase of the study and the dimensions identified for
sustainable development were nature, education, Muhammad Abang Azlan, Vloreen Nity Mathew
cultural and social, health, security and safety, sport and Writing – original draft: Boo Ho Voon, Phang Ing,
recreation, transportation and logistics, infrastructure and Muhhamad Abang Azlan
amenities, economics, and sustainability. The suburban Writing – review & editing: Corina Joseph, Vloreen Nity
residents have undergone numerous socioeconomic Mathew.
challenges, such as relatively lower income, poorer access Ethics approval and consent to participate
to quality health and education services, diminishing
land ownerships, poorer logistics and basic amenities, The research proposal and instrument (questionnaire) were
relatively lower family happiness, and the like. The quality approved by the Research Ethics Committee, Research
of life of this suburban population has been better and the Management Centre of Universiti Teknologi MARA.
possibility of sustaining it could be empirically examined
and enhanced. Hence, it is recommended that the various Consent for publication
socioeconomic service determinants of family happiness Not applicable.
in this suburban area need to be consistently and
continuously well-understood and monitored from time Availability of data
to time for sustainability. The sustainable socioeconomic
development service is found to be multi-dimensional, Not applicable.
and the interests of the suburban population need to Further disclosure
be prioritized for better resident satisfaction and their
happiness for consistently good quality of life. Nature, Part of or the entire set of findings have been presented
culture, education, health, safety and security, sports in conferences (9 Asian Conference on Environment-
th
and recreation, transport and logistics, infrastructure Behaviour Studies, Perdana Kota Bharu, Kelantan,
and amenities, economy, and sustainability are the 10 Malaysia, July 28–29, 2021).
dimensions found in this empirical research.
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