electricsheepafrica/africa-sauti-za-wananchi-taxation-dataset-kenya-2021

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pretty_name: "Sauti za Wananchi Taxation dataset - Kenya 2021"
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# Sauti za Wananchi Taxation dataset - Kenya 2021

**Publisher:** Uwezo at Twaweza East Africa (inactive) · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sauti-za-wananchi-taxation-dataset-kenya-2021) · **License:** `other-pd-nr` · **Updated:** 2025-04-15

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## Abstract

This dataset come from a special round of Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi mobile phone panel survey. The dataset was creating through random sampling from a database of contacts from previous surveys to establish a national representative panel of the country’s population. The data was collected from 3,000 respondents in the fifth round of the special Sauti za Wananchi panel, conducted between September 11 and 24, 2021. The dataset contain information related to citizens’ knowledge, attitudes and practices on matters relating to taxation, state of the country and matters relating to owning and running a business in Kenya.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-04-15. Geographic scope: **KEN**.

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

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Demographics and population |
| **Unit of observation** | Tabular records |
| **Rows (total)** | 284 |
| **Columns** | 4 (0 numeric, 4 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 227 rows |
| **Test split** | 56 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | KEN |
| **Publisher** | Uwezo at Twaweza East Africa (inactive) |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-04-15 |

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## Variables

**Identifier / Metadata** — `labels` (QD2dii. If No, why?, QA2d. Why do you say so?, QA4b. Why do you say so?), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-09).

**Other** — `variables` (Respondent_Serial, QD1aiv_1, QD1aiv_6Oth).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-sauti-za-wananchi-taxation-dataset-kenya-2021")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `variables` | object | 0.0% | Respondent_Serial, QD1aiv_1, QD1aiv_6Oth |
| `labels` | object | 0.0% | QD2dii. If No, why?, QA2d. Why do you say so?, QA4b. Why do you say so? |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-09 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_No numeric columns._

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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`. 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 Uwezo at Twaweza East Africa (inactive) 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/sauti-za-wananchi-taxation-dataset-kenya-2021) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_sauti_za_wananchi_taxation_dataset_kenya_2021,
title = {Sauti za Wananchi Taxation dataset - Kenya 2021},
author = {Uwezo at Twaweza East Africa (inactive)},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sauti-za-wananchi-taxation-dataset-kenya-2021},
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.*