electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-covid-19-subnational

Bénin: Coronavirus (Covid-19) Subnational

Publisher: HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2025-04-10

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Abstract

Subnational data about Covid19 in Bénin - Infections (new cases, gender), Deaths, Recoveries when available. Unfortunately the country does not give the details per region anymore, we keep the database updated at the national level while waiting for the disaggregated data.

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-04-10. Geographic scope: BEN.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	2,951
Columns	3 (0 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	2,360 rows
Test split	590 rows
Geographic scope	BEN
Publisher	HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa
HDX last updated	2025-04-10

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Variables

Geographic — id_date_iso_3_pays_id_pays_region_id_region_contaminés_décès_guéris_femme_homme_genre_non_spécifié_source (1;16/03/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Alibori;96;0;0;0;0;0;0;VOA AFRIQUE, 1972;14/08/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Ouémé;104;0;0;0;0;0;0;Gouvernement du Bénin, 1963;13/08/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Non spécifié;108;62;1;9;null;null;62;Gouvernement du Bénin).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-05).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-covid-19-subnational")
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
id_date_iso_3_pays_id_pays_region_id_region_contaminés_décès_guéris_femme_homme_genre_non_spécifié_source	object	0.0%	1;16/03/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Alibori;96;0;0;0;0;0;0;VOA AFRIQUE, 1972;14/08/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Ouémé;104;0;0;0;0;0;0;Gouvernement du Bénin, 1963;13/08/2020;BEN;Bénin;10;Non spécifié;108;62;1;9;null;null;62;Gouvernement du Bénin
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-05

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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 HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa 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 for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_benin_covid_19_subnational,
  title     = {Bénin: Coronavirus (Covid-19) Subnational},
  author    = {HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/benin-covid-19-subnational},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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