electricsheepafrica/africa-solidarity-with-south-sudan

South Sudan: Trained Nurses and Midwives Employment

Publisher: Solidarity with South Sudan · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2025-05-05

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Abstract

The data has been assembled by the Solidarity with South Sudan Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) based in Wau, Western Bahr al-Ghazal, South Sudan. It provides insights into the employment of qualified nurses and midwives in the National Health System of South Sudan.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Temporal coverage is indicated by the unnamed_20 column(s). Geographic scope: SSD.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	110
Columns	15 (7 numeric, 7 categorical, 1 datetime)
Train split	88 rows
Test split	22 rows
Geographic scope	SSD
Publisher	Solidarity with South Sudan
HDX last updated	2025-05-05

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Variables

Identifier / Metadata — unnamed_0 (range 1.0–106.0), midwives_students_enrolled_from_2019_to_2024 (Western Equatoria, Western Bhar El Ghazal, Warrap), unnamed_2 (Wau, Tambura Yambio, Wau ), unnamed_3 (range 1.0–50.0), unnamed_5 (range 1.0–53.0) and 10 others.

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-solidarity-with-south-sudan")
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
unnamed_0	float64	3.6%	1.0 – 106.0 (mean 53.5)
midwives_students_enrolled_from_2019_to_2024	object	2.7%	Western Equatoria, Western Bhar El Ghazal, Warrap
unnamed_2	object	2.7%	Wau, Tambura Yambio, Wau
unnamed_3	float64	53.6%	1.0 – 50.0 (mean 1.9608)
unnamed_5	float64	50.9%	1.0 – 53.0 (mean 1.963)
unnamed_6	object	50.9%	ABCAB (PASS), ABBAC (PASS), ABBAA (PASS)
unnamed_7	float64	49.1%	1.0 – 55.0 (mean 1.9643)
unnamed_8	float64	52.7%	1.0 – 51.0 (mean 1.9615)
unnamed_9	float64	68.2%	1.0 – 34.0 (mean 1.9429)
unnamed_11	float64	53.6%	1.0 – 50.0 (mean 1.9608)
unnamed_14	object	68.2%	Registered Midwife, Registered Midwife , Position
unnamed_19	object	68.2%	Apuk- Warrap State , Comboni Hospital-Wau, Comboni hospital- Wau
unnamed_20	datetime64[ns]	65.5%
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-19

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
unnamed_0	1.0	106.0	53.5	53.5
unnamed_3	1.0	50.0	1.9608	1.0
unnamed_5	1.0	53.0	1.963	1.0
unnamed_7	1.0	55.0	1.9643	1.0
unnamed_8	1.0	51.0	1.9615	1.0
unnamed_9	1.0	34.0	1.9429	1.0
unnamed_11	1.0	50.0	1.9608	1.0

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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. 10 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: unnamed_4, unnamed_10, unnamed_12, unnamed_13, unnamed_15, unnamed_16.... 1 exact duplicate rows were removed. 8 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 Solidarity with South Sudan and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: unnamed_3, unnamed_5, unnamed_6, unnamed_7, unnamed_8, unnamed_9, unnamed_11, unnamed_14....
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_solidarity_with_south_sudan,
  title     = {South Sudan: Trained Nurses and Midwives Employment},
  author    = {Solidarity with South Sudan},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/solidarity-with-south-sudan},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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