electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-national-parliament-b-b83606bd

Candidates and Seats Occupied in the National Parliament B | Africa (MDPA)

12 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 1959-2014 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 12 rows from MDPA, covering Candidates and Seats Occupied in the National Parliament B. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Labour and workforce datasets help analysts study employment, participation, skills, sectoral structure, and the movement of people through work and livelihoods.

Source-provided context: Candidates, and seats occupied in the national parliament by sex, Republic of Mauritius, National Assembly Elections

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one source record from the original tabular resource, with Electric Sheep Africa provenance columns added where available.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: not detected.
• Time coverage basis: source metadata.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	12
Countries/areas	1
First period	1959
Last period	2014
Indicators	0
Columns	26
Source format	XLS

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	12	1959	2014	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• This repo preserves one source tabular resource with its usable columns kept together.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier assigned during Electric Sheep Africa engineering.	9efb0f59-363e-48b4-a815-5a8245fd161a:sheet1:0
country_iso3	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Country or area name.	Mauritius
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Sheet1
1982	string	Source column from the original resource.	1983
d_309	double	Source column from the original resource.	282.0
d_302	double	Source column from the original resource.	266.0
d_7	double	Source column from the original resource.	16.0
d_62	double	Source column from the original resource.	62.0
d_58	double	Source column from the original resource.	60.0
d_4	double	Source column from the original resource.	2.0
d_66	double	Source column from the original resource.	70.0
d_61	double	Source column from the original resource.	66.0
d_5	double	Source column from the original resource.	4.0
d_7_6	double	Source column from the original resource.	5.7
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	1959
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2014
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	1959-2014
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Candidates, and seats occupied in the national parliament by sex, Rep...
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	SOURCE-Candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-natparby-sex-RepMts-Nal-A...
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	9886a58b-243a-463c-90c5-710758f4627c
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	9efb0f59-363e-48b4-a815-5a8245fd161a
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/9886a58b-243a-463c-90c5-710758f4627c/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-national-parliament-b-b83606bd")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• No canonical year/date column was detected in the packaged table; use source metadata and domain context for temporal interpretation.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: SOURCE-Candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-natparby-sex-RepMts-Nal-As-Elec-1959-2014.xls
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T17:19:29Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-national-parliament-b-b83606bd

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Track workforce composition over time
• Compare employment patterns across groups
• Join with education, population, and sector data
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_candidates_and_seats_occupied_in_the_national_parliament_b_b836_2014,
  title        = {Candidates and Seats Occupied in the National Parliament B | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2014},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/candidates-and-seats-occupied-national-parliament-sex-republic-mauritius-national-assembly},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-candidates-and-seats-occupied-in-the-national-parliament-b-b83606bd}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/candidates-and-seats-occupied-national-parliament-sex-republic-mauritius-national-assembly