README.md

---
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- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- other
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- covid-19
- disease
- epidemics-outbreaks
- fatalities
- gender
- health
- hxl
- bfa
pretty_name: "Burkina Faso: Coronavirus (Covid-19) City level"
dataset_info:
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 1911
    - name: test
      num_examples: 477
---

# Burkina Faso: Coronavirus (Covid-19) City level

**Publisher:** HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/burkinafaso_covid19_city-level) · **License:** `cc-by-igo` · **Updated:** 2025-05-05

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## Abstract

Covid-19 data at the city level in Burkina Faso - Infections (new cases, gender), Deaths, Recoveries + Urban / Rural locations.

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-05-05. Geographic scope: **BFA**.

*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** | First-level administrative unit observations |
| **Rows (total)** | 2,389 |
| **Columns** | 3 (0 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 1,911 rows |
| **Test split** | 477 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | BFA |
| **Publisher** | HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-05-05 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `id_date_iso_3_pays_id_pays_region_id_region_villes_id_villes_communes_type_contaminés_décès_guéris_femme_homme_genre_non_spécifié_source` (;#date;#country+code;#country+name;;#region+name;;#adm2+name;;;#affected+infected;#affected+killed;#affected+recovered;#affected+woman;#affected+man;#affected+gendernotspecified;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, 1588;13/03/2021;BFA;Burkina Faso;16;Haut-Bassins;216;Bobo-Dioulasso;15;Urbain;4;0;;;;;Ministère de la Santé - Burkina Faso;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, 1590;13/03/2021;BFA;Burkina Faso;16;Haut-Bassins;216;Houndé;16;Urbain;1;0;;;;;Ministère de la Santé - Burkina Faso;;;;;;;;;;;;;;).

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

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-burkinafaso-covid19-city-level")
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_villes_id_villes_communes_type_contaminés_décès_guéris_femme_homme_genre_non_spécifié_source` | object | 0.0% | ;#date;#country+code;#country+name;;#region+name;;#adm2+name;;;#affected+infected;#affected+killed;#affected+recovered;#affected+woman;#affected+man;#affected+gendernotspecified;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, 1588;13/03/2021;BFA;Burkina Faso;16;Haut-Bassins;216;Bobo-Dioulasso;15;Urbain;4;0;;;;;Ministère de la Santé - Burkina Faso;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, 1590;13/03/2021;BFA;Burkina Faso;16;Haut-Bassins;216;Houndé;16;Urbain;1;0;;;;;Ministère de la Santé - Burkina Faso;;;;;;;;;;;;;; |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-04 |

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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](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/burkinafaso_covid19_city-level) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_burkinafaso_covid19_city_level,
  title     = {Burkina Faso: Coronavirus (Covid-19) City level},
  author    = {HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/burkinafaso_covid19_city-level},
  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.*