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electricsheepafrica/africa-namibia-namibia-languages-ba405147

Namibia: Languages | Africa (Namibia official open data) 1,080 rows - 1 Africa country - 2015 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Namibia 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: Namibia: Languages Publisher: CLEAR Global (previously Translators… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-namibia-namibia-languages-ba405147.

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Namibia: Languages | Africa (Namibia official open data)

1,080 rows - 1 Africa country - 2015 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Namibia 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: Namibia: Languages
—Publisher: CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)
—Resource: clearglobal_language_use_NAM_admin2.csv
—Format: CSV
—License: CC BY-SA
—Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`NAM`	1,080	2015	2015	`Namibia`

Indicators or Resource Contents

—namibia-languages-location-level-ebcf878d - Namibia: Languages - location level
—namibia-languages-language-rank-7aa3ebe7 - Namibia: Languages - language rank
—namibia-languages-proportion-value-8942c2b5 - Namibia: Languages - proportion value
—namibia-languages-reliability-score-595aa836 - Namibia: Languages - reliability score

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`indicator_id`	`string`	Stable indicator identifier.	`namibia-languages-location-level-ebcf878d`
`indicator_name`	`string`	Human-readable indicator name.	`Namibia: Languages - location level`
`country_iso3`	`string`	ISO3 country code.	`NAM`
`country_name`	`string`	Country name.	`Namibia`
`date`	`string`	Observation date.	`2015-09-24`
`year`	`Int64`	Observation year.	`2015`
`value`	`float64`	Numeric observation value.	`2.0`
`unit`	`string`	Measurement unit, when available.	`source_units_unspecified`
`dimension_location_code`	`string`	Source dimension.	`NA0404`
`dimension_location_name`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Keetmanshoop Urban`
`dimension_language_code`	`string`	Source dimension.	`here1253`
`dimension_language_name`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Herero`
`dimension_dataset_name`	`string`	Source dimension.	`Namibia Round 6 data (2014)`
`dimension_url`	`string`	Source dimension.	`https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nam_r6_data.sav`
`dimension_source`	`string`	Source dimension.	`AfroBarometer`
`dimension_date_creation`	`string`	Source dimension.	`01-29-2025 13:14:37`
`dimension_representivity_rating`	`string`	Source dimension.	`moderate`
`source_period_start_year`	`Int64`	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_period_end_year`	`Int64`	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_period_label`	`string`	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
`source_provider`	`category`	Publishing organization.	`CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)`
`source_dataset`	`category`	Source package title.	`Namibia: Languages`
`source_resource`	`category`	Source resource title.	`clearglobal_language_use_NAM_admin2.csv`
`source_package_id`	`category`	CKAN package UUID.	`48739309-96ad-455b-afb6-e152f9eabe39`
`source_resource_id`	`category`	CKAN resource UUID.	`cf14266d-3d39-41cf-bbde-fa8e169ded84`
`source_url`	`category`	Original source resource URL.	`https://data.humdata.org/dataset/48739309-96ad-455b-afb6-e152f9eabe39/re`
`license_id`	`category`	Source license identifier.	`cc-by-sa`
`retrieved_at`	`category`	UTC retrieval timestamp.	`2026-08-30T05:38:32Z`

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-namibia-namibia-languages-ba405147")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NAM"]

Work with indicators

python

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

bibtex

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_namibia_namibia_languages_ba405147_2015,
  title        = {Namibia: Languages | Africa (Namibia official open data)},
  author       = {CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/namibia-languages},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-namibia-namibia-languages-ba405147}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders). 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

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-30 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/48739309-96ad-455b-afb6-e152f9eabe39/resource/cf14266d-3d39-41cf-bbde-fa8e169ded84/download/cleargloballanguageusenamadmin2.csv