electricsheepafrica/africa-ethiopia-targeted-populaton-food-cluster

---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- other
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- drought
- food-security
- people-in-need-pin
- eth
pretty_name: "Ethiopia - Drought Induced Food Insecurity"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 312
- name: test
num_examples: 78
---

# Ethiopia - Drought Induced Food Insecurity

**Publisher:** OCHA Ethiopia · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopia-targeted-populaton-food-cluster) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2025-08-31

---

## Abstract

The dataset contains the number of people targeted by the food cluster in relation to drought in Ethiopia.

Each row in this dataset represents subnational administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-08-31. Geographic scope: **ETH**.

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

---

## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Food security and nutrition |
| **Unit of observation** | Subnational administrative unit observations |
| **Rows (total)** | 391 |
| **Columns** | 9 (1 numeric, 8 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 312 rows |
| **Test split** | 78 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | ETH |
| **Publisher** | OCHA Ethiopia |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-08-31 |

---

## Variables

**Geographic** — `admin3pcode` (ET010302, ET050592, ET050798), `woreda` (Erob, Kebridehar town, Lehel-Yucub), `zone` (East Hararge, West Hararge, Guji), `admin2pcode` (ET0410, ET0409, ET0414), `region` (Oromia, Somali, SNNP) and 1 others.

**Identifier / Metadata** — `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-10).

**Other** — `food_cluster_target` (range 57.0–334621.0).

---

## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ethiopia-targeted-populaton-food-cluster")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()
```

---

## Schema

| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `admin3pcode` | object | 0.0% | ET010302, ET050592, ET050798 |
| `woreda` | object | 0.0% | Erob, Kebridehar town, Lehel-Yucub |
| `zone` | object | 0.0% | East Hararge, West Hararge, Guji |
| `admin2pcode` | object | 0.0% | ET0410, ET0409, ET0414 |
| `region` | object | 0.0% | Oromia, Somali, SNNP |
| `admin1pcode` | object | 0.0% | ET04, ET05, ET07 |
| `food_cluster_target` | float64 | 23.5% | 57.0 – 334621.0 (mean 36657.2441) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-10 |

---

## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `food_cluster_target` | 57.0 | 334621.0 | 36657.2441 | 26188.0 |

---

## 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`. 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.

---

## Limitations

- Data originates from OCHA Ethiopia 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: `food_cluster_target`.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopia-targeted-populaton-food-cluster) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

---

## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_ethiopia_targeted_populaton_food_cluster,
title = {Ethiopia - Drought Induced Food Insecurity},
author = {OCHA Ethiopia},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopia-targeted-populaton-food-cluster},
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.*