Title: Analysis of PCS-QoL to investigate the holistic health for sustainable way of living in smart cities of 21st century

Authors: Rohit Rastogi; Rohan Tyagi; Tribhuvan Mishra; Vaishnavi Mishra; Utkarsh Pratap Shahi

Addresses: Department of CSE, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P., India ' Department of CSE, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P., India ' Department of CSE, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P., India ' Department of CSE, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P., India ' Department of CSE, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P., India

Abstract: Quality of life (QoL) is defined as a standard for well-being of a human being consisting of factors such as comfort, happiness, mental, physical, social, emotional and spiritual health. Today as the countries are growing towards the concept of smart cities and technology, it has become a sole responsibility to bring into notice an analysis of holistic health for sustainable way of living in smart cities of 21st century. In order to examine the QoL of human beings SF-36 questionnaires' has been used. The questionnaire was projected to 500 people belonging to different group of age and a response of 205 people was collected. The dataset is analysed through python libraries such as NumPy, pandas and matplotlib and in the results the variation of PCS value according to gender and profession is plotted, shown and several other parameter variations is analysed. The results predicts about the QoL of people belonging to different age groups, different occupations and different educational backgrounds. Hence, this paper is a perfect model that represents and inspects each and every angle of wellness of human being required for sustainable way of living in the smart cities of 21st century.

Keywords: short form; SF; quality of life; QoL; holistic health; smart cities; sustainable development; physical component summary; PCS; questionnaire; machine learning; data sciences.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDATS.2023.132565

International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, 2023 Vol.15 No.1/2, pp.4 - 40

Received: 03 Aug 2022
Accepted: 07 Feb 2023
Published online: 28 Jul 2023 *