electricsheepafrica/africa-congo-education-in-danger-data-e94a33f3

Education in Danger Data | Africa (Congo official open data)

14 rows - 1 Africa country - 1998-2023 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Congo as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Education in Danger Data
• Publisher: Insecurity Insight
• Resource: 1998-2023 DRC and UGA Education in Danger Incident Data.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY-SA
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
COG	14	1998	2023	Congo

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	6278bcab-7c86-4a0f-a9ca-85bc97a241d7:1998-2023-drc-and-uga-education:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	COG
country_name	category	Country name.	Congo
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	1998-2023 DRC and UGA Education
date	string	Observation date.	2021-06-01 00:00:00
country	string	Source column.	DRC
country_iso	string	Source column.	COD
event_description	string	Source column.	01 June 2021: ADF militants killed five people including a female teache
admin_1	string	Source column.	Beni territory
reported_perpetrator	string	Source column.	NSA
perpetrator_name	string	Source column.	Allied Democratic Forces /National Army for the Liberation of Uganda
weapon_carried_or_used	string	Source column.	Firearms
location_of_event	string	Source column.	Education Institution
educators_killed	float64	Source column.	1.0
educators_injured	float64	Source column.	0.0
educators_kidnapped	float64	Source column.	0.0
educators_arrested	float64	Source column.	0.0
known_educators_kidnap_or_arrest_outcome	float64	Source column.	``
attacks_on_schools	float64	Source column.	1.0
attacks_on_universities	float64	Source column.	0.0
military_occupation_of_schools	float64	Source column.	0.0
forced_entry_into_schools	float64	Source column.	1.0
damage_and_destruction_to_school_event	float64	Source column.	0.0
students_killed	float64	Source column.	0.0
students_injured	float64	Source column.	0.0
students_kidnapped	float64	Source column.	12.0
known_student_kidnap_or_arrest_outcome	string	Source column.	NoInformation
students_arrested	float64	Source column.	0.0
sexual_violence_affecting_school_age_children	float64	Source column.	0.0
sind_event_id	float64	Source column.	28307.0
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	1998
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2023
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	1998-2023
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Insecurity Insight
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Education in Danger Data
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	1998-2023 DRC and UGA Education in Danger Incident Data.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	6278bcab-7c86-4a0f-a9ca-85bc97a241d7
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by-sa
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-16T12:36:20Z
data_notes	string	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-congo-education-in-danger-data-e94a33f3")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "COG"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_congo_education_in_danger_data_e94a33f3_2023,
  title        = {Education in Danger Data | Africa (Congo official open data)},
  author       = {Insecurity Insight},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sind-education-in-danger-monthly-news-briefs-dataset},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-congo-education-in-danger-data-e94a33f3}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) Insecurity Insight. 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 Hugging Face. 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 2026-08-16 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e/resource/6278bcab-7c86-4a0f-a9ca-85bc97a241d7/download/1998-2023-drc-and-uga-education-in-danger-incident-data.xlsx