electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-widowhood-rates-by-sex-age-group-and-survey-year-c045c820

Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year | Africa (Uganda official open data)

6 rows - 1 Africa country - 2021 - 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: Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year
• Publisher: Uganda Bureau of Statistics
• Resource: Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
UGA	6	2021	2021	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-3ab5123cb11754:sheet2:0
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.	Sheet2
year	Int64	Observation year.	2021
age_group	string	Source column.	15-17
males	float64	Source column.	0.1
females	float64	Source column.	0.0
both_sexes	float64	Source column.	0.1
males_2	float64	Source column.	0.1
females_2	float64	Source column.	0.2
both_sexes_2	float64	Source column.	0.1
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Uganda Bureau of Statistics
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	widowhood-rates-by-sex-age-group-and-survey-year-ubos-stat-3ab5123cb1175
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	ubos-stat-3ab5123cb11754
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Widowhood_rates_by_se
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T21:37:51Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-widowhood-rates-by-sex-age-group-and-survey-year-c045c820")
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_widowhood_rates_by_sex_age_group_and_survey_year_c045c820_2021,
  title        = {Widowhood rates by sex, age group and survey year | Africa (Uganda official open data)},
  author       = {Uganda Bureau of Statistics},
  year         = {2021},
  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-widowhood-rates-by-sex-age-group-and-survey-year-c045c820}}
}

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/Widowhood_rates_by_sex,_age_group_and_survey_year.xlsx