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- africa
- humanitarian
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- electric-sheep-africa
- demographics
- education
- indicators
- socioeconomics
- sustainable-development
- sustainable-development-goals-sdg
- sle
pretty_name: "Sierra Leone - Education Indicators"
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---
# Sierra Leone - Education Indicators
**Publisher:** UNESCO · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unesco-data-for-sierra-leone) · **License:** `cc-by-igo` · **Updated:** 2026-03-03
---
## Abstract
Education indicators for Sierra Leone.
Contains data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics [bulk data service](http://data.uis.unesco.org) covering the following categories: SDG 4 Global and Thematic (made 2026 February), Other Policy Relevant Indicators (made 2026 February), Demographic and Socio-economic (made 2026 February)
Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-03. Geographic scope: **SLE**.
*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*
---
## Dataset Characteristics
| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Education |
| **Unit of observation** | Country-level aggregates |
| **Rows (total)** | 6,644 |
| **Columns** | 6 (2 numeric, 4 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 5,315 rows |
| **Test split** | 1,328 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | SLE |
| **Publisher** | UNESCO |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-03-03 |
---
## Variables
**Geographic** — `country_id` (SLE), `year` (range 1971.0–2025.0).
**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range 0.0–4608987.0).
**Identifier / Metadata** — `indicator_id` (CR.MOD.1.F, CR.MOD.2.GPIA, CR.MOD.1), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-04).
---
## Quick Start
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-unesco-data-for-sierra-leone")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()
print(train.shape)
train.head()
```
---
## Schema
| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `indicator_id` | object | 0.0% | CR.MOD.1.F, CR.MOD.2.GPIA, CR.MOD.1 |
| `country_id` | object | 0.0% | SLE |
| `year` | int64 | 0.0% | 1971.0 – 2025.0 (mean 2013.0214) |
| `value` | float64 | 0.0% | 0.0 – 4608987.0 (mean 3920.8324) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-04 |
---
## Numeric Summary
| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `year` | 1971.0 | 2025.0 | 2013.0214 | 2015.0 |
| `value` | 0.0 | 4608987.0 | 3920.8324 | 13.1968 |
---
## 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`. 2 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `magnitude`, `qualifier`. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.
---
## Limitations
- Data originates from UNESCO 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](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unesco-data-for-sierra-leone) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.
---
## Citation
```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_unesco_data_for_sierra_leone,
title = {Sierra Leone - Education Indicators},
author = {UNESCO},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unesco-data-for-sierra-leone},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```
---
*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.* |