electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-uneca-population-and-migration

CAMEROON - Population and migration indicators, UNECA

Publisher: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2024-09-13

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Abstract

This dataset contains many indicators related to population and migration such as Average annual population growth rate, Population 15-19 , Annual rate of change of the migrant stock, International migrant stock at mid-year, etc. The whole list and their description can be find in this link https://bit.ly/2ODhFQh

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2024-09-13. Geographic scope: CMR.

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)	45
Columns	51 (0 numeric, 51 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	36 rows
Test split	9 rows
Geographic scope	CMR
Publisher	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
HDX last updated	2024-09-13

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Variables

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source, esa_processed.

Other — indicator (Average annual population growth rate - Total (%), Life expectancy at birth - Total (years), Mid-year population - Female (thousands)), 1970 (2.6, 8.6, 248.8), 1971 (2.6, 8.6, 256.5), 1972 (2.7, 8.6, 264.0), 1973 (2.7, 8.6, 271.3) and 44 others.

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-uneca-population-and-migration")
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
indicator	object	0.0%	Average annual population growth rate - Total (%), Life expectancy at birth - Total (years), Mid-year population - Female (thousands)
1970	object	51.1%	2.6, 8.6, 248.8
1971	object	51.1%	2.6, 8.6, 256.5
1972	object	51.1%	2.7, 8.6, 264.0
1973	object	51.1%	2.7, 8.6, 271.3
1974	object	51.1%	2.7, 8.6, 278.4
1975	object	51.1%	2.8, 6.0, 285.4
1976	object	51.1%	2.8, 6.0, 294.3
1977	object	51.1%	2.9, 6.0, 302.9
1978	object	51.1%	2.9, 6.0, 311.4
1979	object	51.1%
1980	object	51.1%
1981	object	51.1%
1982	object	51.1%
1983	object	51.1%
1984	object	51.1%
1985	object	51.1%
1986	object	51.1%
1987	object	51.1%
1988	object	51.1%
1989	object	51.1%
1990	object	11.1%
1991	object	51.1%
1992	object	51.1%
1993	object	51.1%
1994	object	51.1%
1995	object	11.1%
1996	object	51.1%
1997	object	51.1%
1998	object	51.1%
1999	object	51.1%
2000	object	2.2%
2001	object	42.2%
2002	object	42.2%
2003	object	42.2%
2004	object	42.2%
2005	object	0.0%
2006	object	42.2%
2007	object	42.2%
2008	object	42.2%
2009	object	42.2%
2010	object	0.0%
2011	object	42.2%
2012	object	42.2%
2013	object	44.4%
2014	object	44.4%
2015	object	4.4%
2016	object	46.7%
2017	object	28.9%
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
No numeric columns.

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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 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977....
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_cameroon_uneca_population_and_migration,
  title     = {CAMEROON - Population and migration indicators, UNECA},
  author    = {United Nations Economic Commission for Africa},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cameroon-uneca-population-and-migration},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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