electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-area-by-primary-designated-function-7be7493b

Forest Area by Primary Designated Function | Africa (MDPA)

12 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2000-2020 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 12 rows from MDPA, covering Forest Area by Primary Designated Function. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Agriculture datasets help analysts examine production, prices, inputs, land use, food systems, and rural economic activity.

Source-provided context: Data shows number of forest area by primary designated function for the republic of Mauritius from year 2000 to 2020

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	2000
Last period	2020
Indicators	0
Columns	21
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	12	2000	2020	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.	ec74d95a-bb03-452f-b383-d10013da8fd3:table-42:0
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.	Table 42
production	string	Source column from the original resource.	Protection of soil and water
d_12579	double	Source column from the original resource.	17610.0
d_11464	double	Source column from the original resource.	16050.0
d_11518	double	Source column from the original resource.	16125.0
d_11000	double	Source column from the original resource.	16543.0
d_7500	double	Source column from the original resource.	17150.0
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2000
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2020
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2000-2020
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.	Forest area by primary designated function
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Source_File_4.xlsx
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	0fa1a5eb-02a1-426d-82c7-afa39329f9b8
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	ec74d95a-bb03-452f-b383-d10013da8fd3
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/0fa1a5eb-02a1-426d-82c7-afa39329f9b8/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-forest-area-by-primary-designated-function-7be7493b")
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_File_4.xlsx
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:36:22Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-area-by-primary-designated-function-7be7493b

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 production or price movements
• Compare regions or commodities
• Join with climate and trade data
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_forest_area_by_primary_designated_function_7be7493b_2020,
  title        = {Forest Area by Primary Designated Function | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/forest-area-primary-designated-function},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-forest-area-by-primary-designated-function-7be7493b}}
}

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/forest-area-primary-designated-function