Replication Materials: Determinants of AI Readiness in Africa: A Panel Data Analysis with Mediation Testing and Country Clustering

Replication materials for the manuscript "Determinants of AI Readiness in Africa: A Panel Data Analysis with Mediation Testing and Country Clustering" submitted to Data & Policy journal.

This repository contains:

DATA:
- Raw data: Original GARI Excel files from Oxford Insights (2019-2024)
- Intermediate data: Extracted GARI and World Bank indicators for Africa
- Processed data: Final merged panel dataset (54 countries, 2019-2024)

CODE:
- 5 Jupyter notebooks covering the complete analysis pipeline
- Data collection, EDA, regression, mediation analysis, and clustering

DOCUMENTATION:
- README with replication instructions
- Codebook with variable descriptions
- Data sources with citations

The analysis examines institutional quality, infrastructure, and economic development as determinants of AI readiness using Random Effects panel regression, mediation testing, and K-means clustering.