# Ethiopia Financial Inclusion Forecast
A forecasting and policy-analysis project focused on estimating short-term financial inclusion trends in Ethiopia. The repository combines exploratory analysis, event impact modeling, and forecasting utilities to study how access and usage indicators may evolve over time.
## Overview
This project was created to analyze financial inclusion patterns in Ethiopia and to produce forward-looking estimates for upcoming periods. The work is structured as a reusable analysis pipeline rather than a single notebook dump, with dedicated modules for loading data, modeling event impacts, and generating forecasts.
The central goals are to:
- study historical financial inclusion indicators
- enrich the analysis with event or policy context
- estimate near-term future values for access and usage metrics
- package results in a form suitable for reporting and presentation
## Repository Structure
```text
ethiopia-fi-forecast/
├── dashboard/ # Presentation layer scaffold
├── data/ # Raw and processed datasets
├── notebooks/ # EDA and analysis workflow
├── src/
│ ├── data_loader.py # Data ingestion helpers
│ ├── analysis_tools.py # Reusable analysis utilities
│ ├── impact_modeling.py # Event-impact or intervention modeling
│ └── forecasting.py # Forecasting logic
├── data_enrichment_log.md # Notes on external enrichment work
└── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
```
## Core Components
- `src/data_loader.py`: dataset loading and preparation
- `src/analysis_tools.py`: shared analysis helpers
- `src/impact_modeling.py`: logic for evaluating event or intervention effects
- `src/forecasting.py`: forecasting routines for inclusion metrics
- `notebooks/`: step-by-step exploratory and modeling work
- `dashboard/`: scaffold for presenting results in an interactive format
## Tech Stack
- Python
- Pandas and NumPy
- notebook-based exploratory an …