electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-20b49f34

Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner | Africa (Mauritius official open data)

552 rows - 1 Africa country - 2017-2020 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

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

About the source

• Source: Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner
• Publisher: MDPA
• Resource: Budget-Data-2018-19-Electoral_0.csv
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MUS	552	2017	2020	Mauritius

Indicators or Resource Contents

• budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-itemno-e6fd5ba2 - Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner - itemno
• budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-endfinancialy-91008fad - Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner - endfinancialyear
• budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-amount-mur-f6c35216 - Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner - amount mur

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	object	Stable indicator identifier.	budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-itemno-e6fd5b
indicator_name	object	Human-readable indicator name.	Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner - itemno
country_iso3	object	ISO3 country code.	MUS
country_name	object	Country name.	Mauritius
year	Int64	Observation year.	2017
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	21110001.0
unit	object	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_head	string	Source dimension.	Office Of The Electoral Commissioner
dimension_subhead	string	Source dimension.	GENERAL
dimension_expensetype	string	Source dimension.	Recurrent Expenses
dimension_category	string	Source dimension.	Compensation of Employees
dimension_subcategory	string	Source dimension.	Personal Emoluments
dimension_itemcategory	string	Source dimension.	Basic Salary
dimension_details	string	Source dimension.	Electoral Commissioner
dimension_financialstatus	string	Source dimension.	Estimates
source_provider	object	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	object	Source package title.	Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner
source_resource	object	Source resource title.	Budget-Data-2018-19-Electoral_0.csv
source_package_id	object	CKAN package UUID.	ed77f92b-1f27-41eb-99f9-eb467f07f61a
source_resource_id	object	CKAN resource UUID.	537fb206-5a9a-4c4f-bbaa-09e017ab3f09
source_url	object	Original CSV URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/ed77f92b-1f27-41eb-99f9-eb467f07f61a/reso
license_id	object	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	object	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-16T19:23:24Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-20b49f34")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MUS"]

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_mauritius_budget_data_2018_2019_office_of_the_electoral_commissioner_20b4_2020,
  title        = {Budget Data 2018-2019 - Office of the Electoral Commissioner | Africa (Mauritius official open data)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/budget-data-2018-2019-office-electoral-commissioner},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-budget-data-2018-2019-office-of-the-electoral-commissioner-20b49f34}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data (c) MDPA. 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 2026-07-16 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/ed77f92b-1f27-41eb-99f9-eb467f07f61a/resource/537fb206-5a9a-4c4f-bbaa-09e017ab3f09/download/budget-data-2018-19-electoral_0.csv