| --- |
| language: |
| - en |
| - sw |
| license: other |
| license_name: world-bank-microdata-terms |
| license_link: https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use |
| tags: |
| - agriculture |
| - financial-inclusion |
| - survey-data |
| - smallholder-farmers |
| - africa |
| - uganda |
| - tabular |
| pretty_name: "CGAP Smallholder Survey - Uganda 2015" |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| task_categories: |
| - tabular-classification |
| - tabular-regression |
| --- |
| |
| # CGAP Smallholder Household Survey - Uganda (2015) |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| Nationally representative household survey of smallholder farming families in **Uganda**, conducted by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) in 2015. |
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| ### Dataset Summary |
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| | Metric | Value | |
| |--------|-------| |
| | **Country** | Uganda | |
| | **Year** | 2015 | |
| | **Households Surveyed** | ~2,800 | |
| | **Total Records** | 11,158 | |
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| ### Tables |
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| | Table | Rows | Columns | Description | |
| |-------|------|---------|-------------| |
| | `household` | 2,870 | 273 | Household-level characteristics | |
| | `single` | 2,771 | 950 | Single respondent detailed survey | |
| | `multiple` | 5,517 | 390 | Repeated measures (members, plots, livestock) | |
|
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| ## Usage |
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| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| # Load household-level data |
| household = load_dataset("YOUR_USERNAME/cgap-smallholder-uga", "household", split="train") |
| |
| # Load single respondent data |
| single = load_dataset("YOUR_USERNAME/cgap-smallholder-uga", "single", split="train") |
| |
| # Load multiple respondent data |
| multiple = load_dataset("YOUR_USERNAME/cgap-smallholder-uga", "multiple", split="train") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### With Pandas |
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| ```python |
| import pandas as pd |
| df = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/YOUR_USERNAME/cgap-smallholder-uga/household.parquet") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Features |
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| The dataset covers: |
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| - **Demographics**: Household composition, age, gender, education levels |
| - **Agriculture**: Crops cultivated, land holdings, livestock, farming practices |
| - **Financial Services**: Bank accounts, mobile money usage, savings groups, credit access |
| - **Income & Expenditure**: Income sources, consumption patterns |
| - **Assets**: Household and productive assets |
| - **Shocks**: Economic shocks and coping mechanisms |
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| ## Documentation |
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| ### Official CGAP User Guide |
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| For detailed variable definitions, survey methodology, and questionnaire documentation, see the official CGAP user guide: |
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| 📖 **[Uganda User Guide](https://www.cgap.org/research/publication/cgap-smallholder-household-surveys-uganda-user-guide)** |
|
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| ### Data Dictionary |
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| This repository includes comprehensive data dictionaries with statistics for every variable: |
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| - **[DATA_DICTIONARY.md](DATA_DICTIONARY.md)** - Human-readable markdown format |
| - **[data_dictionary.json](data_dictionary.json)** - Machine-readable JSON format |
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| The data dictionary includes for each variable: |
| - Data type (numeric/categorical) |
| - Non-null counts and missing value percentages |
| - Value ranges (min, max, mean, median) for numeric columns |
| - Unique value counts and distributions for categorical columns |
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| ## Suggested ML Tasks |
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| - Financial inclusion prediction (binary classification) |
| - Income/wealth classification |
| - Household segmentation (clustering) |
| - Agricultural productivity prediction |
| - Vulnerability/poverty risk assessment |
|
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| ## Source |
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| - **Publisher**: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) |
| - **Host**: World Bank Microdata Library |
| - **URL**: https://www.cgap.org/research/data/smallholder-families-data-hub |
|
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{cgap_smallholder_uga_2015, |
| title={CGAP Smallholder Families Household Survey - Uganda}, |
| author={{Consultative Group to Assist the Poor}}, |
| year={2015}, |
| publisher={World Bank Microdata Library} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
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| ## License |
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| Subject to World Bank Microdata Library [Terms of Use](https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use). Intended for research and educational purposes. |
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