electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-science-and-technology-indicators-for-central-african-republic

Central African Republic - Science and Technology

Publisher: World Bank Group · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-03-27

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Abstract

Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.

Technological innovation, often fueled by governments, drives industrial growth and helps raise living standards. Data here aims to shed light on countries technology base: research and development, scientific and technical journal articles, high-technology exports, royalty and license fees, and patents and trademarks. Sources include the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the U.S. National Science Board, the UN Statistics Division, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-27. Geographic scope: CAF.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	55
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	44 rows
Test split	11 rows
Geographic scope	CAF
Publisher	World Bank Group
HDX last updated	2026-03-27

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Variables

Geographic — country_name (Central African Republic), country_iso3 (CAF), year (range 1996.0–2024.0).

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 0.0325–88772322.0).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (Scientific and technical journal articles, High-technology exports (current US$), High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)), indicator_code (IP.JRN.ARTC.SC, TX.VAL.TECH.CD, TX.VAL.TECH.MF.ZS), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-16).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-science-and-technology-indicators-for-central-african-republic")
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
country_name	object	0.0%	Central African Republic
country_iso3	object	0.0%	CAF
year	int64	0.0%	1996.0 – 2024.0 (mean 2013.1818)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	Scientific and technical journal articles, High-technology exports (current US$), High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	IP.JRN.ARTC.SC, TX.VAL.TECH.CD, TX.VAL.TECH.MF.ZS
value	float64	0.0%	0.0325 – 88772322.0 (mean 3157513.2872)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-16

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
year	1996.0	2024.0	2013.1818	2015.0
value	0.0325	88772322.0	3157513.2872	15.27

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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 World Bank Group 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_world_bank_science_and_technology_indicators_for_central_african_republic,
  title     = {Central African Republic - Science and Technology},
  author    = {World Bank Group},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-science-and-technology-indicators-for-central-african-republic},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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