©Journal of Applied Sciences & Environmental Sustainability 3 (7): 68-84, 2017 e-ISSN 2360-8013 68 | Page Research Article Influence of Socio-Cultural Factors on Residents’ Satisfaction among Gazian students in Malaysia Abdalrahim M. Shehab, Mohd Zin Kandar Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Email: sh77eng@gmail.com; mzin@utm.my ARTICLE INFO Article history Received: 2/06/2017 Accepted: 04/07/2017 A b s t r a c t The high level of demand and necessities for sustainable housing in recent time, different problems has been raised relating to Residents’ satisfaction and urban quality of life. This paper examined the influence of six socio-cultural factors “i.e. family structure, family values, family life style, religious beliefs, privacy, safety and security” on housing satisfaction in Gaza from Gazian who are currently studying at Malaysian universities. Data was collected from randomly selected sample of 180 Gazian students from five universities in Malaysia namely UTM, UPM, UM, UKM and USM via survey questionnaire. Standard linear regression model was used to test the statistical relationship between residents’ satisfaction and socio-cultural factors. Decision tree C4.5 algorithm classifies the data based on the concept of information entropy. The data are classified at each node of the tree after analyzing the attribute of the data. SVM analyzes the extracted data and uses the health parameters listed to group the related data. The approach is of two stages: training and testing. The training dataset is build using the health data representing the listed search words. This training set is used to classify the test data. The data are tested with the training set and only women and child health data are stored in classes that help in advocacy monitoring in an efficient way. Furthermore, significance of the study provides a valuable insight for understanding how importance for Palestinian society those socio-cultural values are integral part in Palestine to develop and improve the quality of housing. © Journal of Applied Sciences & Environmental Sustainability. All rights reserved. PFI, Benefits, Strategy, Value for money, public procurement 1. Introduction Housing is universally acknowledged as the second most essential human need after food and is considered a major economic asset in every nation. This study attempts to investigate the socio-cultural factors influence on residents’ housing satisfaction of the Gazian society as one of the most conservative Arabic societies in the process of evolution of construction technology and the concerning of applying the