electricsheepafrica/africa-ucdp-data-for-united-republic-of-tanzania-the

United Republic of Tanzania (the) - Data on Conflict Events

Publisher: HDX · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2025-03-10

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Abstract

This dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence (phenomena of lethal violence occurring at a given time and place). These events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, with temporal durations disaggregated to single, individual days.
Sundberg, Ralph, and Erik Melander, 2013, “Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset”, Journal of Peace Research, vol.50, no.4, 523-532
Högbladh Stina, 2019, “UCDP GED Codebook version 19.1”, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the date_start, date_end column(s). Geographic scope: TZA.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Conflict and security
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	40
Columns	51 (28 numeric, 21 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	32 rows
Test split	8 rows
Geographic scope	TZA
Publisher	HDX
HDX last updated	2025-03-10

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Variables

Geographic — year (range 1992.0–2021.0), active_year (range 0.0–1.0), type_of_violence (range 1.0–3.0), dyad_dset_id (range 92.0–16474.0), dyad_new_id (range 937.0–16474.0) and 9 others.

Temporal — source_date (2021-11-30 00:00:00, 2021-11-15 20:21:00-07:00, 2021-12-15 00:00:00), date_prec (range 1.0–5.0), date_start, date_end.

Outcome / Measurement — number_of_sources (range -1.0–5.0), deaths_a, deaths_b, deaths_civilians, deaths_unknown.

Identifier / Metadata — id (range 10142.0–428443.0), relid (TAZ-1992-3-510-1, AFG-2021-3-973-537, TAZ-2020-3-937-14), code_status (Clear), conflict_dset_id (range 92.0–15183.0), conflict_new_id (range 470.0–15183.0) and 14 others.

Other — where_prec (range 1.0–6.0), where_description, adm_1, adm_2, geom_wkt and 4 others.

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ucdp-data-for-united-republic-of-tanzania-the")
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
id	float64	2.5%	10142.0 – 428443.0 (mean 281621.6923)
relid	object	2.5%	TAZ-1992-3-510-1, AFG-2021-3-973-537, TAZ-2020-3-937-14
year	float64	2.5%	1992.0 – 2021.0 (mean 2013.8462)
active_year	float64	2.5%	0.0 – 1.0 (mean 0.4359)
code_status	object	2.5%	Clear
type_of_violence	float64	2.5%	1.0 – 3.0 (mean 2.641)
conflict_dset_id	float64	2.5%	92.0 – 15183.0 (mean 2721.6667)
conflict_new_id	float64	2.5%	470.0 – 15183.0 (mean 2968.6154)
conflict_name	object	2.5%	Government of Tanzania - Civilians, Tanzania: Islamic State, IS - Civilians
dyad_dset_id	float64	2.5%	92.0 – 16474.0 (mean 2920.2821)
dyad_new_id	float64	2.5%	937.0 – 16474.0 (mean 3569.7179)
dyad_name	object	2.5%	Government of Tanzania - Civilians, Government of Tanzania - IS, IS - Civilians
side_a_dset_id	float64	2.5%	92.0 – 528.0 (mean 138.7949)
side_a_new_id	float64	2.5%	92.0 – 528.0 (mean 138.7949)
side_a	object	0.0%	Government of Tanzania, IS, CNDD
side_b_dset_id	float64	2.5%	234.0 – 9999.0 (mean 8006.0769)
side_b_new_id	float64	2.5%	1.0 – 432.0 (mean 58.9487)
side_b	object	0.0%	Civilians, IS, Palipehutu-FNL
number_of_sources	float64	2.5%	-1.0 – 5.0 (mean 0.8718)
source_article	object	0.0%	"AllAfrica,2021-11-30,Tanzania - No Justice for Zanzibar Election Violence
CR Human Rights Watch", HRW, 2002 April, "The bullets were raining", http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2002/tanzania/zanz0402.pdf, "CABO LIGADO,2021-12-15,Cabo Ligado Weekly: 6-12 December"
source_office	object	27.5%	AllAfrica, CABO LIGADO, Anadolu Agency;CABO LIGADO
source_date	object	37.5%	2021-11-30 00:00:00, 2021-11-15 20:21:00-07:00, 2021-12-15 00:00:00
source_headline	object	25.0%	Tanzania - No Justice for Zanzibar Election Violence
CR Human Rights Watch, Cabo Ligado Weekly: 6-12 December, Tanzania's president says peace restored along border with Mozambique;Cabo Ligado Weekly: 29 November-5 December
source_original	object	7.5%
where_prec	float64	2.5%	1.0 – 6.0 (mean 1.5897)
where_coordinates	object	0.0%
where_description	object	5.0%
adm_1	object	7.5%
adm_2	object	10.0%
latitude	float64	2.5%	-11.0914 – -1.468 (mean -6.7958)
longitude	float64	2.5%	30.6558 – 40.2796 (mean 38.3423)
geom_wkt	object	2.5%
priogrid_gid	float64	2.5%	113479.0 – 127870.0 (mean 119864.9231)
country	object	0.0%
iso3	object	0.0%
country_id	float64	2.5%	510.0 – 510.0 (mean 510.0)
region	object	0.0%
event_clarity	float64	2.5%	1.0 – 2.0 (mean 1.1795)
date_prec	float64	2.5%	1.0 – 5.0 (mean 1.5641)
date_start	datetime64[ns]	2.5%
date_end	datetime64[ns]	2.5%
deaths_a	float64	2.5%
deaths_b	float64	2.5%
deaths_civilians	float64	2.5%
deaths_unknown	float64	2.5%
best	float64	2.5%
high	float64	2.5%
low	float64	2.5%
gwnoa	float64	22.5%
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
id	10142.0	428443.0	281621.6923	371929.0
year	1992.0	2021.0	2013.8462	2020.0
active_year	0.0	1.0	0.4359	0.0
type_of_violence	1.0	3.0	2.641	3.0
conflict_dset_id	92.0	15183.0	2721.6667	92.0
conflict_new_id	470.0	15183.0	2968.6154	470.0
dyad_dset_id	92.0	16474.0	2920.2821	92.0
dyad_new_id	937.0	16474.0	3569.7179	937.0
side_a_dset_id	92.0	528.0	138.7949	92.0
side_a_new_id	92.0	528.0	138.7949	92.0
side_b_dset_id	234.0	9999.0	8006.0769	9999.0
side_b_new_id	1.0	432.0	58.9487	1.0
number_of_sources	-1.0	5.0	0.8718	1.0
where_prec	1.0	6.0	1.5897	1.0
latitude	-11.0914	-1.468	-6.7958	-6.1639

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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: gwnob. 7 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 HDX 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: source_office, source_date, source_headline, gwnoa.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_ucdp_data_for_united_republic_of_tanzania_the,
  title     = {United Republic of Tanzania (the) - Data on Conflict Events},
  author    = {HDX},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ucdp-data-for-united-republic-of-tanzania-the},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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