electricsheepafrica/africa-cod-ps-eri

Eritrea - Subnational Population Statistics

Publisher: OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA) · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2025-03-05

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Abstract

Eritrea level 0 (national), level 1 (region), and level 2 (district) 2001 population statistics including number of individuals, number of households, number of administrative villages, and number of villages.

REFERENCE YEAR: 2001

These tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Eritrea - Subnational Administrative Boundaries.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-03-05. Geographic scope: ERI.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Demographics and population
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	1
Columns	7 (3 numeric, 4 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	0 rows
Test split	0 rows
Geographic scope	ERI
Publisher	OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA)
HDX last updated	2025-03-05

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Variables

Demographic — villages (range 2594.0–2594.0), households (range 670390.0–670390.0).

Identifier / Metadata — adm0_pcode (ER), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — adm0_en (Eritrea), t_tl (range 2908795.0–2908795.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cod-ps-eri")
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
adm0_en	object	0.0%	Eritrea
adm0_pcode	object	0.0%	ER
villages	int64	0.0%	2594.0 – 2594.0 (mean 2594.0)
households	int64	0.0%	670390.0 – 670390.0 (mean 670390.0)
t_tl	int64	0.0%	2908795.0 – 2908795.0 (mean 2908795.0)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
villages	2594.0	2594.0	2594.0	2594.0
households	670390.0	670390.0	670390.0	670390.0
t_tl	2908795.0	2908795.0	2908795.0	2908795.0

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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. 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 OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA) 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_cod_ps_eri,
  title     = {Eritrea - Subnational Population Statistics},
  author    = {OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA)},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-eri},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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