Datasets:
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
multilinguality: monolingual
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
tags:
- tabular
- csv
- africa
- mali
- official-statistics
- open-data
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-00000-of-00001.parquet
pretty_name: Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data | Africa (Mali official open data)
Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data | Africa (Mali official open data)
19,776 rows - 1 Africa country - 2022 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa
TL;DR
This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mali as
ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable
indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.
About the source
- Source: Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data
- Publisher: AI for Good at Meta
- Resource: aggregate_smb_leaders.csv
- Format:
CSV - License: CC BY 4.0
- Packaging mode:
tabular_resource
Geographic coverage
1 Africa country:
| Country | Rows | First year | Last year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MLI |
19,776 | 2022 | 2022 | Mali |
Indicators or Resource Contents
- This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
source_record_id |
string |
Stable row identifier for tabular resources. | 564d4e73-207b-462f-9bae-a80ee8780967:0 |
country_iso3 |
category |
ISO3 country code. | MLI |
country_name |
category |
Country name. | Mali |
year |
Int64 |
Observation year. | 2022 |
variable |
string |
Source column. | bus_chl_government_regulations |
value |
string |
Numeric observation value. | Checked: Government regulations (e.g., compliance, technical regulation, |
pop |
string |
Source column. | smb business leaders |
logged_iso2 |
string |
Source column. | AE |
mean_w |
float64 |
Source column. | 0.12469869 |
se_w |
float64 |
Source column. | 0.044790301 |
count |
float64 |
Source column. | 11.0 |
question_n |
float64 |
Source column. | 88.0 |
question_text |
string |
Source column. | What are the most important challenges your business currently faces? (P |
source_period_start_year |
Int64 |
First year inferred from source resource metadata. | 2022 |
source_period_end_year |
Int64 |
Last year inferred from source resource metadata. | 2022 |
source_period_label |
category |
Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata. | 2022 |
source_provider |
category |
Publishing organization. | AI for Good at Meta |
source_dataset |
category |
Source package title. | Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data |
source_resource |
category |
Source resource title. | aggregate_smb_leaders.csv |
source_package_id |
category |
CKAN package UUID. | 8bd3d109-d33d-4349-90c4-464c9d7ccb66 |
source_resource_id |
category |
CKAN resource UUID. | 564d4e73-207b-462f-9bae-a80ee8780967 |
source_url |
category |
Original source resource URL. | https://data.humdata.org/dataset/8bd3d109-d33d-4349-90c4-464c9d7ccb66/re |
license_id |
category |
Source license identifier. | cc-by |
retrieved_at |
category |
UTC retrieval timestamp. | 2026-08-12T23:12:09Z |
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-small-business-surveys-aggregated-data-8e9832e3")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())
Filter to one country
sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]
Work with indicators
if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])
Citation
@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mali_small_business_surveys_aggregated_data_8e9832e3_2022,
title = {Small Business Surveys - Aggregated Data | Africa (Mali official open data)},
author = {AI for Good at Meta},
year = {2022},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/future-of-business-survey-aggregated-data},
publisher = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-small-business-surveys-aggregated-data-8e9832e3}}
}
License
Released under CC BY 4.0.
Original data (c) AI for Good at Meta. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.
About Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified,
ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative
open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with
consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset()
to start working in seconds.
Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica
Provenance: ingested 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/8bd3d109-d33d-4349-90c4-464c9d7ccb66/resource/564d4e73-207b-462f-9bae-a80ee8780967/download/aggregate_smb_leaders.csv