electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-safety-net-programs

Adequacy Of Social Safety Net Programs | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 71 observations · 37 Africa countries · 2003–2021 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 71 observations of Adequacy Of Social Safety Net Programs data across 37 Africa countries, spanning 2003–2021.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Adequacy Of Social Safety Net Programs

Geographic coverage

37 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
MWI	5	2004	2019
CIV	3	2008	2018
CMR	3	2007	2021
MUS	3	2006	2017
BFA	3	2003	2021
TUN	3	2010	2021
SEN	3	2011	2021
RWA	3	2005	2013
ZAF	3	2005	2014
NER	3	2014	2021
BWA	2	2009	2015
ZWE	2	2017	2019
ETH	2	2015	2018
NGA	2	2015	2018
SWZ	2	2009	2016
...	22 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Botswana
country_iso3	string	—	BWA
year	int64	—	2009
Adequacy of social safety net programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)	float64	—	9.532913

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-safety-net-programs")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_iso3"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Adequacy of social safety net programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_adequacy_of_social_safety_net_programs_2021,
  title        = {Adequacy Of Social Safety Net Programs | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adequacy-of-social-safety-net-programs},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-safety-net-programs}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. 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 HuggingFace. 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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adequacy-of-social-safety-net-programs