electricsheepasia/asia-place-code-datasets

MIMU Pcode Datasets

Publisher: Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) · Source: HDX · License: hdx-other · Updated: 2026-04-13

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Abstract

MIMU Pcode is similar to a zip code or postal code, and is a part of a data management system providing unique reference codes to around 67,000 locations across Myanmar. The MIMU maintains the P-codes for Myanmar based on information collected from a variety of sources, including the Government gazette and humanitarian and development organizations. Without a system for organizing such data it is almost impossible for data from more than one source to be combined.

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-04-13. Geographic scope: MMR.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	64
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	51 rows
Test split	12 rows
Geographic scope	MMR
Publisher	Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
HDX last updated	2026-04-13

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Variables

Geographic — state_region_1 (Shan (South), Magway, Bago (East)), of_villages_with_modified_coordinates (range 1.0–1176.0), state_region_2 (Magway, Shan (South), Bago (East)), of_villages_with_newly_added_coordinates (range 1.0–750.0).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-05-06).

Other — township (Bago, Daik-U, Kyaukkyi), township_1 (Minhla, Bago, Htantabin).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/asia-place-code-datasets")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
state_region_1	object	7.8%	Shan (South), Magway, Bago (East)
township	object	9.4%	Bago, Daik-U, Kyaukkyi
of_villages_with_modified_coordinates	float64	7.8%	1.0 – 1176.0 (mean 39.8644)
state_region_2	object	0.0%	Magway, Shan (South), Bago (East)
township_1	object	1.6%	Minhla, Bago, Htantabin
of_villages_with_newly_added_coordinates	int64	0.0%	1.0 – 750.0 (mean 23.4375)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-05-06

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
of_villages_with_modified_coordinates	1.0	1176.0	39.8644	9.0
of_villages_with_newly_added_coordinates	1.0	750.0	23.4375	4.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 11 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: state_region, added_coordinates, modified_coordinate, new_village, villages_with_all_updates, unnamed_5.... The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_asia_place_code_datasets,
  title     = {MIMU Pcode Datasets},
  author    = {Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/place-code-datasets},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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