electricsheepafrica/africa-kenya-population-of-registered-persons-with-albinism

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license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
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- n<1K
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task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
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tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- demographics
- ken
pretty_name: "Kenya - Population of registered persons with Albinism"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 38
- name: test
num_examples: 9
---

# Kenya - Population of registered persons with Albinism

**Publisher:** Kenya Open Data Initiative (inactive) · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/kenya-population-of-registered-persons-with-albinism) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2024-09-13

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## Abstract

The number of people with albinism in kenya who are registered per county

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2024-09-13. Geographic scope: **KEN**.

*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)** | 48 |
| **Columns** | 7 (4 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 38 rows |
| **Test split** | 9 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | KEN |
| **Publisher** | Kenya Open Data Initiative (inactive) |
| **HDX last updated** | 2024-09-13 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `county` (Baringo, Nyeri, Migori), `centroids_x` (range 34.212–40.7518), `centroids_y` (range -4.1157–3.4145).

**Demographic** — `total_persons_with_albinism` (range 1.0–320.0).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `objectid` (range 0.0–47.0), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-10).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-kenya-population-of-registered-persons-with-albinism")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `county` | object | 2.1% | Baringo, Nyeri, Migori |
| `total_persons_with_albinism` | float64 | 2.1% | 1.0 – 320.0 (mean 67.4255) |
| `centroids_x` | float64 | 2.1% | 34.212 – 40.7518 (mean 36.7928) |
| `centroids_y` | float64 | 2.1% | -4.1157 – 3.4145 (mean -0.3379) |
| `objectid` | int64 | 0.0% | 0.0 – 47.0 (mean 23.5) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-10 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `total_persons_with_albinism` | 1.0 | 320.0 | 67.4255 | 47.0 |
| `centroids_x` | 34.212 | 40.7518 | 36.7928 | 36.8671 |
| `centroids_y` | -4.1157 | 3.4145 | -0.3379 | -0.3666 |
| `objectid` | 0.0 | 47.0 | 23.5 | 23.5 |

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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 Kenya Open Data Initiative (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/kenya-population-of-registered-persons-with-albinism) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_kenya_population_of_registered_persons_with_albinism,
title = {Kenya - Population of registered persons with Albinism},
author = {Kenya Open Data Initiative (inactive)},
year = {2024},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/kenya-population-of-registered-persons-with-albinism},
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.*