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

Burundi Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data

Publisher: FEWS NET · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-04-03

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Abstract

Burundi Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data from 2020

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: BDI.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	782
Columns	40 (9 numeric, 23 categorical, 7 datetime)
Train split	625 rows
Test split	156 rows
Geographic scope	BDI
Publisher	FEWS NET
HDX last updated	2026-04-03

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Variables

Geographic — country (Burundi), country_code (BI), fewsnet_region (East Africa), unit_type (fsc_admin_lhz), specialization_type and 2 others.

Temporal — datacollectionperiod (range 158432.0–377530.0), reporting_date.

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 1.0–3.0).

Identifier / Metadata — source_organization (FEWS NET, Burundi), source_document (Food Security Outlook, Burundi), geographic_unit_full_name (Buragane, Makamba, Burundi, Northern Highlands, Kayanza, Burundi, Humid Plateaus, Ngozi, Burundi), geographic_unit_name (Eastern Arid Plateaus, Southern Highlands, Congo Ridge Millet), fnid (BI2020C311001, BI2020C310805, BI2020C311408) 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

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-burundi-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, Burundi
source_document	object	0.0%	Food Security Outlook, Burundi
country	object	0.0%	Burundi
country_code	object	0.0%	BI
geographic_group	object	0.0%	Eastern Africa
fewsnet_region	object	0.0%	East Africa
geographic_unit_full_name	object	0.0%	Buragane, Makamba, Burundi, Northern Highlands, Kayanza, Burundi, Humid Plateaus, Ngozi, Burundi
geographic_unit_name	object	0.0%	Eastern Arid Plateaus, Southern Highlands, Congo Ridge Millet
unit_type	object	0.0%	fsc_admin_lhz
fnid	object	0.0%	BI2020C311001, BI2020C310805, BI2020C311408
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 – 3.0 (mean 1.1714)
description	object	0.0%
id	int64	0.0%	24353457.0 – 41236759.0 (mean 31274230.9706)
datacollectionperiod	int64	0.0%	158432.0 – 377530.0 (mean 276835.8235)
datacollection	int64	0.0%	168153.0 – 388403.0 (mean 290249.8235)
scenario	object	0.0%
geographic_unit	int64	0.0%	141226.0 – 141271.0 (mean 141248.5)
datasourceorganization	int64	0.0%	2024.0 – 2024.0 (mean 2024.0)
datasourcedocument	int64	0.0%	6525.0 – 6525.0 (mean 6525.0)
dataseries	int64	0.0%	6468851.0 – 6802768.0 (mean 6665268.7941)
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	3.0	1.1714	1.0
id	24353457.0	41236759.0	31274230.9706	32315063.5
datacollectionperiod	158432.0	377530.0	276835.8235	295383.0
datacollection	168153.0	388403.0	290249.8235	310667.0
geographic_unit	141226.0	141271.0	141248.5	141248.5
datasourceorganization	2024.0	2024.0	2024.0	2024.0
datasourcedocument	6525.0	6525.0	6525.0	6525.0
dataseries	6468851.0	6802768.0	6665268.7941	6802729.0

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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 for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_burundi_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification,
  title     = {Burundi Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data},
  author    = {FEWS NET},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/burundi_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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