electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-workers-publication-b1122611

Workers publication | Africa (Zambia official open data)

132 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Zambia 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: Workers publication
• Publisher: Zambia Statistics Agency
• Resource: Workers publication
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
ZMB	132	2026	2026	Zambia

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.	zamstats-media-d104abf3aa84ae:all-workers:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	ZMB
country_name	string	Country name.	Zambia
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	All workers
year	Int64	Observation year.	2026
i	string	Source column.	I.1
number_of_workers_absolute	string	Source column.	By Legal Status
d_1094751	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_223729	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_454509	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_416513	float64	Source column.	0.0
column_8	float64	Source column.	``
d_34964	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_33199	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_140345	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_1048	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_1172	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_13001	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_454509_2	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_30476	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_120169	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_5705	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_41467	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_1306	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_10249	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_29386	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_451	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_47670	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_12919	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_10284	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_106370	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_61	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_315885	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_306439	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_98376	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_71140	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_73666	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_52276	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_62486	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_114483	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_81880	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_226251	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_56725	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_56969	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_389582	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_33243	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_45791	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_76042	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_91642	float64	Source column.	0.0
d_36626	float64	Source column.	0.0
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Zambia Statistics Agency
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Workers publication
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Workers publication
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	workers-publication-zamstats-media-d104abf3aa84ae
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	zamstats-media-d104abf3aa84ae
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Workers-publicati
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-22T09:43:48Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-workers-publication-b1122611")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "ZMB"]

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_zambia_workers_publication_b1122611_2026,
  title        = {Workers publication | Africa (Zambia official open data)},
  author       = {Zambia Statistics Agency},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/workers-publication/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-workers-publication-b1122611}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) Zambia Statistics Agency. 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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-22 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Workers-publication-.xlsx