electricsheepafrica/africa-unhabitat-eg-indicators

Egypt - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators

Publisher: United Nations Human Settlements Programmes, Data and Analytics Section · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2024-03-28

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Abstract

The urban indicators data available here are analyzed, compiled and published by UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Observatory which supports governments, local authorities and civil society organizations to develop urban indicators, data and statistics. Urban statistics are collected through household surveys and censuses conducted by national statistics authorities. Global Urban Observatory team analyses and compiles urban indicators statistics from surveys and censuses. Additionally, Local urban observatories collect, compile and analyze urban data for national policy development. Population statistics are produced by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects.

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2024-03-28. Geographic scope: EGY.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	717
Columns	13 (5 numeric, 8 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	573 rows
Test split	143 rows
Geographic scope	EGY
Publisher	United Nations Human Settlements Programmes, Data and Analytics Section
HDX last updated	2024-03-28

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Variables

Geographic — category (Slum dwellers, Population, Education), indicator_friendly (Average annual rate of change of population – Total, Proportion of urban population with durable housing – Cities, Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation – Cities), type_data (p, 1000, n), latitude (range 24.0875–31.26), longitude (range 29.95–32.8989) and 3 others.

Outcome / Measurement — value (range -0.31–15071000.0).

Identifier / Metadata — name (Egypt, Cairo, Alexandria), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-14).

Other — indicator (avg_annual_rate_change_percentage_total, improved_water_sustainable_access_cities, improved_sanitation_cities).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-unhabitat-eg-indicators")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
category	object	0.0%	Slum dwellers, Population, Education
indicator	object	0.0%	avg_annual_rate_change_percentage_total, improved_water_sustainable_access_cities, improved_sanitation_cities
indicator_friendly	object	0.0%	Average annual rate of change of population – Total, Proportion of urban population with durable housing – Cities, Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation – Cities
type_data	object	0.0%	p, 1000, n
latitude	float64	0.1%	24.0875 – 31.26 (mean 27.6792)
longitude	float64	0.1%	29.95 – 32.8989 (mean 30.4018)
region_id	float64	0.1%	189.0 – 189.0 (mean 189.0)
country_id	object	0.0%	EG, #country+code+v_iso2
name	object	0.0%	Egypt, Cairo, Alexandria
year	float64	0.1%	1950.0 – 2050.0 (mean 1998.7388)
value	float64	0.1%	-0.31 – 15071000.0 (mean 46471.2084)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-14

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
latitude	24.0875	31.26	27.6792	27.0
longitude	29.95	32.8989	30.4018	30.0
region_id	189.0	189.0	189.0	189.0
year	1950.0	2050.0	1998.7388	2000.0
value	-0.31	15071000.0	46471.2084	65.4

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 5 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from United Nations Human Settlements Programmes, Data and Analytics Section and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_unhabitat_eg_indicators,
  title     = {Egypt - Demographic, Health, Education and Transport indicators},
  author    = {United Nations Human Settlements Programmes, Data and Analytics Section},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhabitat-eg-indicators},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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