The housing affordability issue has seriously occurred in Kuala Lumpur recently as the property prices increased significantly from time to time. The research was focused on the B40 and M40 non-Bumiputera homebuyers where the interested respondents were not obtained any benefit from the government. To understand the preference of homebuyers, a survey was conducted to gather the information about the B40 and M40 on buying a house. Cronbach’s alpha was useful reliability to determine the relationship between items in item-scale. Cronbach’s alpha is an internal  reliability coefficient which measures between two different sets of questionnaires. The sample size of the pilot study was 59 and Cronbach’s alpha for both questionnaires was greater than 0.8. Moreover, the value of Cronbach’s alpha for the second questionnaire was greater than the first questionnaire. The second questionnaire was selected for formal study.

survey, computational statistics, customer preference

Received: October 20, 2024;  Revised: May 15, 2025;  Accepted: May 20, 2025

How to cite this article: Gan Fui Yee and Suliadi Firdaus Sufahani, Computational survey and coefficient on understanding the homebuyers’ preference and housing affordability, Advances and Applications in Statistics 92(7) (2025), 993-1007. https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361725043

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