electricsheepafrica/africa-children-under-five-mortality-rate-in-ethiopia-at-sub-national-level-zip

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task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- children
- health
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pretty_name: "Ethiopia: Children Under Five Mortality Rate"
dataset_info:
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num_examples: 9
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---

# Ethiopia: Children Under Five Mortality Rate

**Publisher:** 3iS · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/children-under-five-mortality-rate-in-ethiopia-at-sub-national-level-zip) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2025-04-15

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## Abstract

The dataset available at the [Ethiopian Health Data Analytics and Visualization Hub](https://vizhub.ephi.gov.et/pages/bod/under5_mortality/under5_mortalityByRegions.php) provides information on under-five mortality rates across various regions (Adm 1) in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2020.

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

*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)** | 12 |
| **Columns** | 3 (0 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 9 rows |
| **Test split** | 2 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | ETH |
| **Publisher** | 3iS |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-04-15 |

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## Variables

**Identifier / Metadata** — `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-07).

**Other** — `1990_1991_1992_1993_1994_1995_1996_1997_1998_1999_2000_2001_2002_2003_2004_2005_2006_2007_2008_2009_2010_2011_2012_2013_2014_2015_2016_2017_2018_2019_2020` (Region;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, Addis Ababa;80;79;78;77;76;75;73;70;67;63;58;55;52;49;46;43;39;36;33;30;29;26;25;24;22;21;20;19;18;17;17, Afar;232;226;221;215;209;201;194;188;183;178;173;167;162;157;153;147;140;134;127;120;113;108;103;98;90;87;83;79;75;71;).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-children-under-five-mortality-rate-in-ethiopia-at-sub-national-level-zip")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `1990_1991_1992_1993_1994_1995_1996_1997_1998_1999_2000_2001_2002_2003_2004_2005_2006_2007_2008_2009_2010_2011_2012_2013_2014_2015_2016_2017_2018_2019_2020` | object | 0.0% | Region;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, Addis Ababa;80;79;78;77;76;75;73;70;67;63;58;55;52;49;46;43;39;36;33;30;29;26;25;24;22;21;20;19;18;17;17, Afar;232;226;221;215;209;201;194;188;183;178;173;167;162;157;153;147;140;134;127;120;113;108;103;98;90;87;83;79;75;71; |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-07 |

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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 3iS 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/children-under-five-mortality-rate-in-ethiopia-at-sub-national-level-zip) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_children_under_five_mortality_rate_in_ethiopia_at_sub_national_level_zip,
title = {Ethiopia: Children Under Five Mortality Rate},
author = {3iS},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/children-under-five-mortality-rate-in-ethiopia-at-sub-national-level-zip},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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