electricsheepafrica/africa-health-facilities-cameroon

---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license: other
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- health-facilities
- hxl
- cmr
pretty_name: "Cameroon Healthsites"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 1494
- name: test
num_examples: 373
---

# Cameroon Healthsites

**Publisher:** Global Healthsites Mapping Project · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cameroon-healthsites) · **License:** `ODbL` · **Updated:** 2025-10-15

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## Abstract

This dataset shows the list of operating health facilities. Attributes included: Name,Nature of Facility, Activities, Lat, Long

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-10-15. Geographic scope: **CMR**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Public health |
| **Unit of observation** | Tabular records |
| **Rows (total)** | 1,868 |
| **Columns** | 15 (6 numeric, 8 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 1,494 rows |
| **Test split** | 373 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | CMR |
| **Publisher** | Global Healthsites Mapping Project |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-10-15 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `x` (range 8.9813–16.0672), `y` (range 2.0497–12.3051), `osm_type` (node, way), `loc_amenity` (clinic, hospital, pharmacy).

**Temporal** — `changeset_timestamp`.

**Identifier / Metadata** — `osm_id` (range 188759112.0–13226555311.0), `loc_name` (Centre de Santé, Centre Médical, Clinique), `changeset_id` (range 6207847.0–173295005.0), `meta_id` (ff560c5fe0ed4889ad97ed814baf0a55, 864053aef1ed4d97a6db03cd401e8f29, 7dfca086aeea4ed5960f0de09935fc1d), `esa_source` (HDX) and 1 others.

**Other** — `completeness` (range 6.25–71.875), `meta_healthcare` (clinic, hospital, pharmacy), `geo_bounds_url` (sobzeros, Plan polyvalent Douala, survey:PFE(IT3) ENSTP Yaounde 2010), `changeset_version` (range 1.0–9.0).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-health-facilities-cameroon")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `x` | float64 | 49.0% | 8.9813 – 16.0672 (mean 11.2658) |
| `y` | float64 | 49.0% | 2.0497 – 12.3051 (mean 4.6762) |
| `osm_id` | int64 | 0.0% | 188759112.0 – 13226555311.0 (mean 3580115088.7719) |
| `osm_type` | object | 0.0% | node, way |
| `completeness` | float64 | 0.0% | 6.25 – 71.875 (mean 12.2022) |
| `loc_amenity` | object | 1.1% | clinic, hospital, pharmacy |
| `meta_healthcare` | object | 53.6% | clinic, hospital, pharmacy |
| `loc_name` | object | 10.3% | Centre de Santé, Centre Médical, Clinique |
| `geo_bounds_url` | object | 73.8% | sobzeros, Plan polyvalent Douala, survey:PFE(IT3) ENSTP Yaounde 2010 |
| `changeset_id` | int64 | 0.0% | 6207847.0 – 173295005.0 (mean 91904128.0219) |
| `changeset_version` | int64 | 0.0% | 1.0 – 9.0 (mean 2.2339) |
| `changeset_timestamp` | datetime64[ns, UTC] | 0.0% | |
| `meta_id` | object | 0.0% | ff560c5fe0ed4889ad97ed814baf0a55, 864053aef1ed4d97a6db03cd401e8f29, 7dfca086aeea4ed5960f0de09935fc1d |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-21 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `x` | 8.9813 | 16.0672 | 11.2658 | 11.4972 |
| `y` | 2.0497 | 12.3051 | 4.6762 | 3.9086 |
| `osm_id` | 188759112.0 | 13226555311.0 | 3580115088.7719 | 1402133569.5 |
| `completeness` | 6.25 | 71.875 | 12.2022 | 12.5 |
| `changeset_id` | 6207847.0 | 173295005.0 | 91904128.0219 | 85233460.0 |
| `changeset_version` | 1.0 | 9.0 | 2.2339 | 2.0 |

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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`. 24 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `meta_operator`, `meta_speciality`, `meta_operator_type`, `contact_phone`, `status_operational_status`, `access_hours`.... 1 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 Global Healthsites Mapping Project 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: `x`, `y`, `meta_healthcare`, `geo_bounds_url`.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cameroon-healthsites) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_health_facilities_cameroon,
title = {Cameroon Healthsites},
author = {Global Healthsites Mapping Project},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cameroon-healthsites},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.*