electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjec-794e7525

Higher School Certificate Hsc Grade Distribution by Subjec | Africa (MDPA)

371 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2016-2019 - 3 indicators - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 371 rows from MDPA, covering Higher School Certificate Hsc Grade Distribution by Subjec. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Education datasets help analysts study access, participation, learning systems, infrastructure, and outcomes across places and periods.

Source-provided context: Dataset shows number of students who took part (who were examined) in Higher School Certificate Examinations and the number of passes by Subject from year 2016 to 2019 at Principal Level

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one indicator observation for one geography, time period, and optional source dimensions.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3, year, indicator_id.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	371
Countries/areas	1
First period	2016
Last period	2019
Indicators	3
Columns	19
Source format	CSV

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	371	2016	2019	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-principa-14b8342e - Higher School Certificate (HSC) Grade Distribution by Subjects at Principal Level for Year 2016 - 2019 - total examined(source_units_unspecified)
• higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-principa-5dc29b0b - Higher School Certificate (HSC) Grade Distribution by Subjects at Principal Level for Year 2016 - 2019 - principal passed(source_units_unspecified)
• higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-principa-9a7359e8 - Higher School Certificate (HSC) Grade Distribution by Subjects at Principal Level for Year 2016 - 2019 - subsidiary passed(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-princ...
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Higher School Certificate (HSC) Grade Distribution by Subjects at Pri...
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2016
value	double	Numeric observation value.	3533.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_subjects	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Accounting
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2016
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2019
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2016-2019
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.	Higher School Certificate (HSC) Grade Distribution by Subjects at Pri...
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	HSC Grade Distribution by Subjects at Principal Level 2016 - 2019.csv
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	aba17443-7b43-4613-9e88-d27db2c5f92e
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	51f4b73e-3c35-4d02-973e-d0838193e41e
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/aba17443-7b43-4613-9e88-d27db2c5f92e/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	cc-by
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-higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjec-794e7525")
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

• Canonical time field: year.
• 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: HSC Grade Distribution by Subjects at Principal Level 2016 - 2019.csv
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:53:45Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjec-794e7525

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

• Compare education indicators by geography
• Track participation or completion trends
• Join with population and poverty indicators
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Pivot to geography x period or indicator x period matrices
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_higher_school_certificate_hsc_grade_distribution_by_subjec_794e_2019,
  title        = {Higher School Certificate Hsc Grade Distribution by Subjec | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-principal-level-for-year-2016-2019},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjec-794e7525}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 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/higher-school-certificate-hsc-grade-distribution-by-subjects-at-principal-level-for-year-2016-2019