electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-education-in-danger-data-905ff2bd

Education in Danger Data | Africa (Niger official open data)

1,710 rows - 1 Africa country - 2020-2023 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Niger 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: Education in Danger Data
• Publisher: Insecurity Insight
• Resource: 2020-2023 Arson Attacks on Schools in the Sahel Incident Data
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY-SA
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NER	1,710	2020	2023	Niger

Indicators or Resource Contents

• education-in-danger-data-latitude-1f44f3ec - Education in Danger Data - latitude
• education-in-danger-data-longitude-2216f134 - Education in Danger Data - longitude
• education-in-danger-data-attacks-on-schools-27e12109 - Education in Danger Data - attacks on schools
• education-in-danger-data-attacks-on-universities-5f7848aa - Education in Danger Data - attacks on universities
• education-in-danger-data-military-occupation-of-education-facility-5af6ef3a - Education in Danger Data - military occupation of education facility
• education-in-danger-data-arson-attack-on-education-facility-89174cb4 - Education in Danger Data - arson attack on education facility
• education-in-danger-data-forced-entry-into-education-facility-4f770f7d - Education in Danger Data - forced entry into education facility
• education-in-danger-data-damage-destruction-to-ed-facility-event-5582baff - Education in Danger Data - damage destruction to ed facility event
• education-in-danger-data-educators-killed-62efe1e0 - Education in Danger Data - educators killed
• education-in-danger-data-educators-injured-580bb9f7 - Education in Danger Data - educators injured
• education-in-danger-data-educators-kidnapped-ee604284 - Education in Danger Data - educators kidnapped
• education-in-danger-data-educators-arrested-14b8ce5d - Education in Danger Data - educators arrested
• education-in-danger-data-students-attacked-in-school-e6e987a3 - Education in Danger Data - students attacked in school
• education-in-danger-data-students-killed-110b570b - Education in Danger Data - students killed
• education-in-danger-data-students-injured-607494d1 - Education in Danger Data - students injured
• education-in-danger-data-students-kidnapped-4d1c1402 - Education in Danger Data - students kidnapped
• education-in-danger-data-students-arrested-f2672e06 - Education in Danger Data - students arrested
• education-in-danger-data-sexual-violence-affecting-school-age-children-e662c931 - Education in Danger Data - sexual violence affecting school age children
• education-in-danger-data-sind-event-id-1d4d5edb - Education in Danger Data - sind event id

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	education-in-danger-data-latitude-1f44f3ec
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Education in Danger Data - latitude
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	NER
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Arson data
country_name	string	Country name.	Niger
year	Int64	Observation year.	2023
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	13.23672
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Burkina Faso
dimension_country_iso	string	Source dimension.	BFA
dimension_admin_1	string	Source dimension.	Central-North
dimension_geo_precision	string	Source dimension.	(3) District, Communicipality or Commune
dimension_location_of_event	string	Source dimension.	Education Building
dimension_reported_perpetrator	string	Source dimension.	NSA
dimension_reported_perpetrator_name	string	Source dimension.	Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin
dimension_weapon_carried_used	string	Source dimension.	Arson
dimension_type_of_education_facility	string	Source dimension.	School: No Further Details
dimension_attacks_on_students_and_teachers	string	Source dimension.	False
dimension_known_educators_kidnap_or_arrest_outcome	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_known_student_kidnap_or_arrest_outcome	string	Source dimension.	``
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2023
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2020-2023
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Insecurity Insight
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Education in Danger Data
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	2020-2023 Arson Attacks on Schools in the Sahel Incident Data
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	2c826b35-0ee5-45f4-bddb-646cb6a02ab8
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by-sa
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-14T00:35:21Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-education-in-danger-data-905ff2bd")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NER"]

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_niger_education_in_danger_data_905ff2bd_2023,
  title        = {Education in Danger Data | Africa (Niger official open data)},
  author       = {Insecurity Insight},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sind-education-in-danger-monthly-news-briefs-dataset},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-education-in-danger-data-905ff2bd}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) Insecurity Insight. 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 2026-08-14 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c7db52ae-13c2-4bf5-ae71-a9243a68194e/resource/2c826b35-0ee5-45f4-bddb-646cb6a02ab8/download/2020-2023-arson-attacks-on-schools-in-the-sahel-incident-data.xlsx