electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-current-situation-fewsnet-ipc-classification

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language_creators:
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language:
- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
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task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- food-security
- zmb
pretty_name: "Zambia Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 1552
- name: test
num_examples: 388
---

# Zambia Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data

**Publisher:** FEWS NET · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/zambia_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2026-04-03

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## Abstract

Zambia Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data from 2011

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the `projection_start`, `projection_end` column(s). Geographic scope: **ZMB**.

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

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Food security and nutrition |
| **Unit of observation** | First-level administrative unit observations |
| **Rows (total)** | 1,940 |
| **Columns** | 40 (9 numeric, 23 categorical, 7 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 1,552 rows |
| **Test split** | 388 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | ZMB |
| **Publisher** | FEWS NET |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-04-03 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `country` (Zambia), `country_code` (ZM), `fewsnet_region` (Southern Africa), `unit_type` (fsc_admin), `specialization_type` and 2 others.

**Temporal** — `datacollectionperiod` (range 159430.0–159505.0), `reporting_date`.

**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range 1.0–2.0).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `source_organization` (FEWS NET), `source_document` (Food Security Outlook, Zimbabwe), `geographic_unit_full_name` (Chadiza, Eastern, Zambia, Mbala, Northern, Zambia, Mpulungu, Northern, Zambia), `geographic_unit_name` (Chadiza, Mpika, Mongu), `fnid` (ZM2009C11110, ZM2009C10208, ZM2009C10908) and 8 others.

**Other** — `geographic_group` (Eastern Africa), `classification_scale`, `is_allowing_for_assistance`, `projection_start`, `projection_end` and 12 others.

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-current-situation-fewsnet-ipc-classification")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `source_organization` | object | 0.0% | FEWS NET |
| `source_document` | object | 0.0% | Food Security Outlook, Zimbabwe |
| `country` | object | 0.0% | Zambia |
| `country_code` | object | 0.0% | ZM |
| `geographic_group` | object | 0.0% | Eastern Africa |
| `fewsnet_region` | object | 0.0% | Southern Africa |
| `geographic_unit_full_name` | object | 0.0% | Chadiza, Eastern, Zambia, Mbala, Northern, Zambia, Mpulungu, Northern, Zambia |
| `geographic_unit_name` | object | 0.0% | Chadiza, Mpika, Mongu |
| `unit_type` | object | 0.0% | fsc_admin |
| `fnid` | object | 0.0% | ZM2009C11110, ZM2009C10208, ZM2009C10908 |
| `classification_scale` | object | 0.0% | |
| `scenario_name` | object | 0.0% | |
| `preference_rating` | int64 | 0.0% | 90.0 – 90.0 (mean 90.0) |
| `is_allowing_for_assistance` | bool | 0.0% | |
| `projection_start` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `projection_end` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `status` | object | 0.0% | |
| `value` | float64 | 0.0% | 1.0 – 2.0 (mean 1.0108) |
| `description` | object | 0.0% | |
| `id` | int64 | 0.0% | 24539562.0 – 24545379.0 (mean 24542470.5) |
| `datacollectionperiod` | int64 | 0.0% | 159430.0 – 159505.0 (mean 159468.6567) |
| `datacollection` | int64 | 0.0% | 168671.0 – 168696.0 (mean 168683.8856) |
| `scenario` | object | 0.0% | |
| `geographic_unit` | int64 | 0.0% | 29334.0 – 29494.0 (mean 29384.2722) |
| `datasourceorganization` | int64 | 0.0% | 1.0 – 1.0 (mean 1.0) |
| `datasourcedocument` | int64 | 0.0% | 6601.0 – 6601.0 (mean 6601.0) |
| `dataseries` | int64 | 0.0% | 6505897.0 – 6506773.0 (mean 6506316.2948) |
| `dataseries_name` | object | 0.0% | |
| `specialization_type` | object | 0.0% | |
| `dataseries_specialization_type` | object | 0.0% | |
| `data_usage_policy` | object | 0.0% | |
| `created` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `modified` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `status_changed` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `collection_status` | object | 0.0% | |
| `collection_status_changed` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `collection_schedule` | object | 0.0% | |
| `reporting_date` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `preference_rating` | 90.0 | 90.0 | 90.0 | 90.0 |
| `value` | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0108 | 1.0 |
| `id` | 24539562.0 | 24545379.0 | 24542470.5 | 24542470.5 |
| `datacollectionperiod` | 159430.0 | 159505.0 | 159468.6567 | 159469.0 |
| `datacollection` | 168671.0 | 168696.0 | 168683.8856 | 168684.0 |
| `geographic_unit` | 29334.0 | 29494.0 | 29384.2722 | 29378.0 |
| `datasourceorganization` | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| `datasourcedocument` | 6601.0 | 6601.0 | 6601.0 | 6601.0 |
| `dataseries` | 6505897.0 | 6506773.0 | 6506316.2948 | 6506365.0 |

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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`. 3 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `pct_phase3`, `pct_phase4`, `pct_phase5`. 7 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 FEWS NET 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/zambia_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_zambia_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification,
title = {Zambia Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data},
author = {FEWS NET},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/zambia_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification},
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.*