electricsheepafrica/nigeria-education-scholarships-financial-aid

Nigeria - Scholarships Financial Aid

Dataset Description

Student financial aid and scholarship records with amounts and types.

Dataset Information

• Country: Nigeria
• Dataset Name: scholarships_financial_aid
• Total Records: 100,000
• Total Columns: 8
• File Size: 1.43 MB
• Format: Parquet (full data), CSV (sample)
• Generated: 2025-10-21T23:16:00.868215

Schema

Column	Data Type	Description
scholarship_id	object	Scholarship Id
student_id	object	Student Id
scholarship_type	object	Scholarship Type
amount	float64	Amount
status	object	Status
academic_year	object	Academic Year
application_date	datetime64[ns]	Application Date
country	object	Country

Sample Data

The dataset includes a 10,000-row sample in CSV format for quick exploration.

Data Quality

• Validation Status: ✅ Passed
• Missing Data: ~2-5% (realistic pattern)
• Data Type Enforcement: Strict
• Cross-Dataset Consistency: Maintained

Dependencies

• student_profiles
• socioeconomic_background

Usage Example

Python (Pandas)

import pandas as pd

# Load full dataset
df = pd.read_parquet('scholarships_financial_aid_full.parquet')
print(f"Loaded {len(df):,} records")
print(df.head())

# Load sample
df_sample = pd.read_csv('scholarships_financial_aid_sample.csv')
print(df_sample.describe())

Python (Hugging Face Datasets)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load from Hugging Face
dataset = load_dataset('nigeria-education-scholarships_financial_aid')
df = dataset['train'].to_pandas()

Data Generation

This dataset was generated using statistical distributions based on:

• UNICEF education statistics for Nigeria
• World Bank development indicators
• Nigerian Ministry of Education data
• Realistic probability distributions

Note: This is synthetic data generated for research and testing purposes.

Related Datasets

This dataset is part of the Nigeria Education Datasets Collection (45 datasets total).

Browse the full collection: Nigeria Education Datasets

Citation

@dataset{nigeria_scholarships_financial_aid_2025,
  title={Nigeria Education Dataset: Scholarships Financial Aid},
  author={[Your Name/Organization]},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/nigeria-education-scholarships_financial_aid}
}

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Part of: Nigeria Education Datasets Collection
Total Datasets: 45
Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬