electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-equal-authority-over-assets-during-marriage

Equal Authority Over Assets During Marriage | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,916 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1970–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,916 observations of Equal Authority Over Assets During Marriage data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1970–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Equal Authority Over Assets During Marriage

Geographic coverage

54 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	54	1970	2023
BDI	54	1970	2023
BEN	54	1970	2023
BFA	54	1970	2023
BWA	54	1970	2023
CAF	54	1970	2023
CIV	54	1970	2023
CMR	54	1970	2023
COD	54	1970	2023
COG	54	1970	2023
COM	54	1970	2023
CPV	54	1970	2023
DJI	54	1970	2023
DZA	54	1970	2023
EGY	54	1970	2023
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1970
Spouses have equal rights to manage their own and joint assets	int64	—	1

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-equal-authority-over-assets-during-marriage")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_iso3"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Spouses have equal rights to manage their own and joint assets")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_equal_authority_over_assets_during_marriage_2023,
  title        = {Equal Authority Over Assets During Marriage | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/equal-authority-over-assets-during-marriage},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-equal-authority-over-assets-during-marriage}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. 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 HuggingFace. 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 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/equal-authority-over-assets-during-marriage