electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-languages-1298647f

Mali: Languages | Africa (Mali official open data)

692 rows - 1 Africa country - 2009 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mali 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: Mali: Languages
• Publisher: CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)
• Resource: clearglobal_language_use_MLI_admin1.csv
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY-SA
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	692	2009	2009	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• mali-languages-location-level-4d968782 - Mali: Languages - location level
• mali-languages-language-rank-1aa65372 - Mali: Languages - language rank
• mali-languages-proportion-value-14e8437f - Mali: Languages - proportion value
• mali-languages-reliability-score-0d83edc1 - Mali: Languages - reliability score

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	mali-languages-location-level-4d968782
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Mali: Languages - location level
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MLI
country_name	string	Country name.	Mali
date	string	Observation date.	2009-12-31
year	Int64	Observation year.	2009
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	1.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_location_code	string	Source dimension.	ML01
dimension_location_name	string	Source dimension.	Kayes
dimension_language_code	string	Source dimension.	mama1271
dimension_language_name	string	Source dimension.	Mamara Senoufo
dimension_dataset_name	string	Source dimension.	Mali Census 2009 (IPUMS extract)
dimension_url	string	Source dimension.	https://api.ipums.org/downloads/ipumsi/api/v1/extracts/2404396/ipumsi_00
dimension_source	string	Source dimension.	IPUMS International
dimension_date_creation	string	Source dimension.	01-22-2025 23:34:52
dimension_representivity_rating	string	Source dimension.	very_high
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Mali: Languages
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	clearglobal_language_use_MLI_admin1.csv
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	4243e46c-3861-49ea-b30d-8e023cbb9b09
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	d15cad49-01c7-4252-9578-f5ece8269c84
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/4243e46c-3861-49ea-b30d-8e023cbb9b09/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by-sa
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-12T23:12:09Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-languages-1298647f")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

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_mali_mali_languages_1298647f_2009,
  title        = {Mali: Languages | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)},
  year         = {2009},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/mali-languages},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-languages-1298647f}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders). 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 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/4243e46c-3861-49ea-b30d-8e023cbb9b09/resource/d15cad49-01c7-4252-9578-f5ece8269c84/download/clearglobal_language_use_mli_admin1.csv