Relationship between energy consumption and macroeconomics variables : Case of Malaysia / Aliff Haiqal Mohd Fadzli

This study is conducted in order to investigate the relationship between energy consumption,
economic growth, consumer price index and labour force in Malaysia. Econometrics analysis
is used in this study to achieve the goal of this study taking the period of 1991-2015. The
finding validates that economic growth and labour force has positive and statistically
significant impact on energy consumption while consumer price index has negative
relationship with energy consumption. The result of this study motivated researcher to
recommend that this country need to being efficient in their using of energy especially in
industrial area, the waste of energy may lead to the higher price which the burden will bear
by the population of the country and in order to reduce the unnecessary waste of energy they
need to increase in energy conservation.