Modeling parameters influencing city gas distribution sector based on factor analysis method

City gas distribution (CGD) sector is influenced by several factors like policy, infrastructure, health, safety etc. In order to understand this sector, an exploratory factor analysis is conducted. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) survey meticulously simplifies interconnected steps and examines the possible causal factor structure of a series of measured variables without hitting a predetermined result model. In this paper, the factor analysis is performed in three broad categories namely: managerial level, technical level and site workers to understand the most influencing factor of the sector. 60 questionnaires were prepared to get feedback on parameters affecting CGD sector. The survey is performed by various means, like google form, email, phone calls, appointments with employees and personal meetings. It has been observed from the survey that the nine factors influences this sector and requires certain modifications for the development. Out of these nine factors, five were selected for the analysis which are infrastructure factor, policy factor, gas consumption factor, total energy demand factor and economy factor. The factor analysis has been performed in five major steps, namely factor analysis applicability, selection of factors, loading of factors, significance test of factors and factor loading matrix analysis. The results obtained from these exploratory factor analysis shows that variables like infrastructure, total energy demand and economy affects the CGD market most than the policy and gas consumption.