electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-ava-bdb13bc0

Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega | Africa (Mauritius official open data)

3,228 rows - 1 Africa country - 1970 - 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: Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega
• Publisher: MDPA
• Resource: Availability-of-Selected-Household-Amenities.csv
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MUS	3,228	1970	1970	Mauritius

Indicators or Resource Contents

• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-dee41b27 - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - solar water heater
• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-93fa3394 - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - air conditioner
• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-593e10e9 - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - room heater
• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-3aefaaee - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - compost bin
• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-4189f31d - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - rain water harvest tank
• households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s-5f6bc5d4 - Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega - rain water absorption pit

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	object	Stable indicator identifier.	households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-availability-of-s
indicator_name	object	Human-readable indicator name.	Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of S
country_iso3	object	ISO3 country code.	MUS
country_name	object	Country name.	Mauritius
date	string	Observation date.	1970-01-01
year	Int64	Observation year.	1970
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	438.0
unit	object	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_island	string	Source dimension.	Mauritius
dimension_district	string	Source dimension.	Port Louis
dimension_town_type	string	Source dimension.	Wholly Urban
dimension_region	string	Source dimension.	Town of Port Louis Ward 2 North and South in Moka and West
dimension_occupation_unit	string	Source dimension.	Occupied housing units
source_provider	object	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	object	Source package title.	Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of S
source_resource	object	Source resource title.	Availability-of-Selected-Household-Amenities.csv
source_package_id	object	CKAN package UUID.	092fd942-c4d9-4cbc-aa71-125645714dcb
source_resource_id	object	CKAN resource UUID.	8f5355bf-0627-43bc-a67a-e71b8e3bc25e
source_url	object	Original CSV URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/092fd942-c4d9-4cbc-aa71-125645714dcb/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-households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-ava-bdb13bc0")
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_households_and_population_by_geographical_location_and_ava_bdb1_1970,
  title        = {Households and Population by Geographical Location and Availability of Selected Household Amenities for Mauritius, Rodrigues and Agalega | Africa (Mauritius official open data)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {1970},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/households-and-population-geographical-location-and-availability-selected-household},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-households-and-population-by-geographical-location-and-ava-bdb13bc0}}
}

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/092fd942-c4d9-4cbc-aa71-125645714dcb/resource/8f5355bf-0627-43bc-a67a-e71b8e3bc25e/download/availability-of-selected-household-amenities.csv