electricsheepafrica/africa-internet-freedom-freedom-in-the-world-2022-for-select-african-countries

---
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
- tabular-regression
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- civic-space
pretty_name: "Internet Freedom; Freedom in the world 2022 for select African countries"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 56
- name: test
num_examples: 14
---

# Internet Freedom; Freedom in the world 2022 for select African countries

**Publisher:** The Charter Project · **Source:** [OpenAfrica](https://open.africa/dataset/internet-freedom-freedom-in-the-world-2022-for-select-african-countries) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2023-04-12

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## Abstract

The level of internet freedom in 70 countries around the world through its annual Freedom on the Net report.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on OpenAfrica on 2023-04-12. Geographic scope: **Africa (multiple countries)**.

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

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Humanitarian and development data |
| **Unit of observation** | Tabular records |
| **Rows (total)** | 70 |
| **Columns** | 9 (5 numeric, 4 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 56 rows |
| **Test split** | 14 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | Africa (multiple countries) |
| **Publisher** | The Charter Project |
| **OpenAfrica last updated** | 2023-04-12 |

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## Variables

**Outcome / Measurement** — `internet_freedom_scores_2011_2022` (Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `unnamed_1` (range 2011.0–2022.0), `unnamed_2` (range 1.0–18.0), `unnamed_3` (range 5.0–29.0), `unnamed_4` (range 8.0–30.0), `unnamed_5` (range 14.0–75.0) and 3 others.

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-internet-freedom-freedom-in-the-world-2022-for-select-african-countries")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `internet_freedom_scores_2011_2022` | object | 1.4% | Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria |
| `unnamed_1` | float64 | 4.3% | 2011.0 – 2022.0 (mean 2016.8507) |
| `unnamed_2` | float64 | 4.3% | 1.0 – 18.0 (mean 12.1642) |
| `unnamed_3` | float64 | 4.3% | 5.0 – 29.0 (mean 21.6567) |
| `unnamed_4` | float64 | 4.3% | 8.0 – 30.0 (mean 20.209) |
| `unnamed_5` | float64 | 4.3% | 14.0 – 75.0 (mean 54.0299) |
| `unnamed_6` | object | 2.9% | Partly Free, Not Free, Free |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-28 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `unnamed_1` | 2011.0 | 2022.0 | 2016.8507 | 2017.0 |
| `unnamed_2` | 1.0 | 18.0 | 12.1642 | 15.0 |
| `unnamed_3` | 5.0 | 29.0 | 21.6567 | 25.0 |
| `unnamed_4` | 8.0 | 30.0 | 20.209 | 22.0 |
| `unnamed_5` | 14.0 | 75.0 | 54.0299 | 62.0 |

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## Curation

Raw data was downloaded from OpenAfrica 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`. 5 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 The Charter 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.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://open.africa/dataset/internet-freedom-freedom-in-the-world-2022-for-select-african-countries) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{openafrica_africa_internet_freedom_freedom_in_the_world_2022_for_select_african_countries,
title = {Internet Freedom; Freedom in the world 2022 for select African countries},
author = {The Charter Project},
year = {2023},
url = {https://open.africa/dataset/internet-freedom-freedom-in-the-world-2022-for-select-african-countries},
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.*