electricsheepafrica/africa-afrobarometer-zambia

Afrobarometer — Zambia

🌍 1,200 observations · 1 Africa countries · —–— · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,200 observations of Public Opinion Survey — Zambia data across 1 Africa countries.

About the source

• Source: Afrobarometer
• Publisher: Afrobarometer
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Public Opinion Survey — Zambia

Geographic coverage

1 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
Zambia	1,200	—	—

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country	string	—	Zambia
respno	string	—	ZAM0204
backchk	string	—	No
urbrur	string	—	Rural
region	string	—	Southern
district	string	—	Kazungula
hholdse1	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse2	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse3	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse4	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse5	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse6	string	—	Not Applicable
hholdse7	string	—	Not Applicable
prevint	string	—	Male
currint	string	—	Female
calls	string	—	1
dateintr	string	—	2005-08-11
strtime	string	—	15:02:00
q1	string	—	38.0
q2	string	—	Yes
q3	string	—	Tonga
q4a	string	—	Fairly bad
q4b	string	—	Fairly good
q5	string	—	Better
q6a	string	—	Same
q6b	string	—	Same
q7a	string	—	Worse
q7b	string	—	Better
q8a	string	—	Several times
q8b	string	—	Just once or twice
q8c	string	—	Just once or twice
q8d	string	—	Just once or twice
q8e	string	—	Many times
q8f	string	—	Just once or twice
q9a	string	—	Never
q9b	string	—	Never
q9c	string	—	Never
q10	string	—	Agree very strongly with B
q11	string	—	Agree with B
q12	string	—	Agree with A
... (262 more columns)

Data quality & caveats

• All Afrobarometer survey rounds for Zambia, one split per round.
• Rounds included: R1 (1999-2001, 1,198 resp.), R2 (2002-2003, 1,198 resp.), R3 (2005-2006, 1,200 resp.), R4 (2008-2009, 1,200 resp.), R5 (2011-2013, 1,200 resp.), R6 (2014-2015, 1,199 resp.), R7 (2016-2018, 1,200 resp.), R8 (2019-2021, 1,200 resp.), R9 (2021-2023, 1,200 resp.).
• Total: 10,795 respondents across 9 rounds.
• Each round is a separate split (e.g. round_9) because question sets differ across rounds. Load one with load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-afrobarometer-zambia", split="round_9").
• Columns are Q-coded survey questions with value labels applied; weights included (withinwt, combinwt).
• Questionnaire: codebook.csv maps every column to its question text, the rounds it appears in, and its value-code labels. Load it with load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-afrobarometer-zambia", data_files="codebook.csv") or read codebook.json directly.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-afrobarometer-zambia")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("None")
sample.plot(x="None", y="None")

Citation

@misc{africa_afrobarometer_zambia_2026,
  title        = {Afrobarometer — Zambia},
  author       = {Afrobarometer},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://www.afrobarometer.org/data/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-afrobarometer-zambia}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Afrobarometer. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-09 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.afrobarometer.org/data/