electricsheepafrica/africa-rwanda-mpi

Rwanda Multidimensional Poverty Index

Publisher: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Source: HDX · License: other-pd-nr · Updated: 2026-03-05

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Abstract

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index provides the only comprehensive measure available for non-income poverty, which has become a critical underpinning of the SDGs. The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures multidimensional poverty in over 100 developing countries, using internationally comparable datasets and is updated annually. The measure captures the acute deprivations that each person faces at the same time using information from 10 indicators, which are grouped into three equally weighted dimensions: health, education, and living standards. Critically, the MPI comprises variables that are already reported under the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), the Multi-Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and in some cases, national surveys.

The subnational multidimensional poverty data from the data tables are published by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. For the details of the global MPI methodology, please see the latest Methodological Notes found here.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-05. Geographic scope: RWA.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	6
Columns	12 (5 numeric, 5 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	4 rows
Test split	1 rows
Geographic scope	RWA
Publisher	Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
HDX last updated	2026-03-05

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Variables

Geographic — country_iso3 (RWA), admin_1_name (East, Kigali City, North), intensity_of_deprivation (range 44.5523–48.6272), vulnerable_to_poverty (range 14.8398–24.7982), in_severe_poverty (range 7.0902–22.9313) and 1 others.

Temporal — start_date, end_date.

Outcome / Measurement — headcount_ratio (range 22.3907–55.6239).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — mpi (range 0.0998–0.2637).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-rwanda-mpi")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
country_iso3	object	0.0%	RWA
admin_1_name	object	16.7%	East, Kigali City, North
mpi	float64	0.0%	0.0998 – 0.2637 (mean 0.2234)
headcount_ratio	float64	0.0%	22.3907 – 55.6239 (mean 47.2816)
intensity_of_deprivation	float64	0.0%	44.5523 – 48.6272 (mean 46.9708)
vulnerable_to_poverty	float64	0.0%	14.8398 – 24.7982 (mean 22.1137)
in_severe_poverty	float64	0.0%	7.0902 – 22.9313 (mean 18.9848)
survey	object	0.0%	DHS
start_date	datetime64[ns, UTC]	0.0%
end_date	datetime64[ns, UTC]	0.0%
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
mpi	0.0998	0.2637	0.2234	0.241
headcount_ratio	22.3907	55.6239	47.2816	51.3103
intensity_of_deprivation	44.5523	48.6272	46.9708	47.2626
vulnerable_to_poverty	14.8398	24.7982	22.1137	23.1238
in_severe_poverty	7.0902	22.9313	18.9848	20.7717

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 1 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: admin_1_pcode. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_rwanda_mpi,
  title     = {Rwanda Multidimensional Poverty Index},
  author    = {Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/rwanda-mpi},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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