electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-education-subject-difficulty-performance-nigeria

⚠️ Synthetic dataset — Parameterized from published SSA literature, not real observations. Not suitable for empirical analysis or policy inference.

Nigeria - Subject Difficulty Performance

Dataset Description

Subject-level performance data showing mastery levels and difficulty ratings.

Dataset Information

• Country: Nigeria
• Dataset Name: subject_difficulty_performance
• Total Records: 100,000
• Total Columns: 8
• File Size: 1.43 MB
• Format: Parquet (full data), CSV (sample)
• Generated: 2025-10-21T23:16:03.381956

Schema

Column	Data Type	Description
performance_id	object	Performance Id
student_id	object	Student Id
subject	object	Subject
difficulty_level	object	Difficulty Level
performance_score	float64	Performance Score
mastery_level	object	Mastery Level
academic_year	object	Academic Year
country	object	Country

Sample Data

The dataset includes a 10,000-row sample in CSV format for quick exploration.

Data Quality

• Validation Status: ✅ Passed
• Missing Data: ~2-5% (realistic pattern)
• Data Type Enforcement: Strict
• Cross-Dataset Consistency: Maintained

Dependencies

• assessment_scores

Usage Example

Python (Pandas)

import pandas as pd

# Load full dataset
df = pd.read_parquet('subject_difficulty_performance_full.parquet')
print(f"Loaded {len(df):,} records")
print(df.head())

# Load sample
df_sample = pd.read_csv('subject_difficulty_performance_sample.csv')
print(df_sample.describe())

Python (Hugging Face Datasets)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load from Hugging Face
dataset = load_dataset('nigeria-education-subject_difficulty_performance')
df = dataset['train'].to_pandas()

Data Generation

This dataset was generated using statistical distributions based on:

• UNICEF education statistics for Nigeria
• World Bank development indicators
• Nigerian Ministry of Education data
• Realistic probability distributions

Note: This is synthetic data generated for research and testing purposes.

Related Datasets

This dataset is part of the Nigeria Education Datasets Collection (45 datasets total).

Browse the full collection: Nigeria Education Datasets

Citation

@dataset{nigeria_subject_difficulty_performance_2025,
  title={Nigeria Education Dataset: Subject Difficulty Performance},
  author={[Your Name/Organization]},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/nigeria-education-subject_difficulty_performance}
}

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Part of: Nigeria Education Datasets Collection
Total Datasets: 45
Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬