electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-trends-in-fertility-rate-18790394

Trends in Fertility Rate | Africa (Uganda official open data)

401 rows - 1 Africa country - 2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Uganda as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Trends in Fertility Rate
• Publisher: Uganda Bureau of Statistics
• Resource: Trends in Fertility Rate
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
UGA	401	2018	2018	Uganda

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	ubos-stat-74a35ada9160bd:sheet1:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	UGA
country_name	string	Country name.	Uganda
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Sheet1
year	Int64	Observation year.	2018
directorate	string	Source column.	DPSS
statistics	string	Source column.	``
year_of_last_update	string	Source column.	``
indicator_value	float64	Source column.	``
status	string	Source column.	``
year_of_last_update_2	string	Source column.	``
indicator_value_2	float64	Source column.	``
status_2	string	Source column.	``
responsible_directorate	string	Source column.	``
responsible_person	string	Source column.	``
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Uganda Bureau of Statistics
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Trends in Fertility Rate
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Trends in Fertility Rate
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	trends-in-fertility-rate-ubos-stat-74a35ada9160bd
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	ubos-stat-74a35ada9160bd
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Trend_of_fertlility_r
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T21:37:51Z
domain	string	Source column.	``
indicator	string	Source column.	``
period	string	Source column.	``
industry_isic_rev_3_rev_4	string	Source column.	``
2011	float64	Source column.	``
2012	float64	Source column.	``
2013	float64	Source column.	``
2014	float64	Source column.	``
2015	float64	Source column.	``
occupations_isco_88	string	Source column.	``
years	string	Source column.	``
values	float64	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-trends-in-fertility-rate-18790394")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "UGA"]

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_uganda_trends_in_fertility_rate_18790394_2018,
  title        = {Trends in Fertility Rate | Africa (Uganda official open data)},
  author       = {Uganda Bureau of Statistics},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://www.ubos.org/explore-statistics/0/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-trends-in-fertility-rate-18790394}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) Uganda Bureau of Statistics. 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 2026-07-21 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Trend_of_fertlility_rate.xlsx