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 "name": "south-africa-claude-usage",
 "title": "How South Africans use Claude: Anthropic Economic Index, May 2026",
 "description": "Claude usage in South Africa, its four provinces with published figures and 26 African countries, from the Anthropic Economic Index (period 1 May 2026): the Anthropic Usage Index and rank, work, personal and coursework shares, augmentation and automation, and South Africa's top request topics, job categories and tasks against the world.",
 "version": "2026.11.3",
 "created": "2026-11-10",
 "homepage": "https://mzansidata.co.za/data/downloads#south-africa-claude-usage",
 "keywords": [
  "Anthropic Economic Index",
  "Claude usage South Africa",
  "AI use South Africa",
  "AI adoption Africa",
  "CSV"
 ],
 "licenses": [
  {
   "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
   "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"
  }
 ],
 "usageInfo": "The Anthropic Economic Index data is released by Anthropic under CC BY 4.0 (code under MIT). These tables are a selection from it, reshaped by MzansiData. If you use them, credit \"Anthropic Economic Index, Anthropic, CC BY 4.0\" and MzansiData for the tables, and say if you changed them.",
 "contributors": [
  {
   "title": "MzansiData",
   "path": "https://mzansidata.co.za",
   "role": "publisher"
  },
  {
   "title": "Anthropic",
   "path": "https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index",
   "role": "author"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "title": "Anthropic Economic Index (dataset metadata: publisher Anthropic, licence CC BY 4.0, latest period 2026-05-01, modified 2026-06-24)",
   "path": "https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-31",
   "note": "Read through the Anthropic Economic Index MCP tools (econ_index_*), not a downloaded file, so there is no file checksum. The same data is published at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex (\"Data released under CC-BY, code released under MIT License\")."
  }
 ],
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   "name": "claude-usage-geographies",
   "title": "Usage by geography: the world, 26 African countries and 4 South African provinces",
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      "type": "string",
      "description": "world, country or province"
     },
     {
      "name": "code",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 for countries, ISO 3166-2 for provinces; blank for the world"
     },
     {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Geography name as published"
     },
     {
      "name": "usage_index",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Anthropic Usage Index (countries only): share of usage divided by share of working-age population"
     },
     {
      "name": "rank",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Rank by usage index (countries, of rank_of) or by share of South Africa's usage (provinces)"
     },
     {
      "name": "rank_of",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many geographies the rank is out of"
     },
     {
      "name": "share_of_country_usage_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Provinces: share of South Africa's observed Claude usage, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "work_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share of classified conversations that look like work, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "personal_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share that look like personal life, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "coursework_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share that look like coursework, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "augmentation_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share in augmentation style (the person stays involved), %"
     },
     {
      "name": "automation_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share in automation style (the person directs Claude to complete the task), %"
     },
     {
      "name": "top_request_topic",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Provinces: the most common request topic"
     },
     {
      "name": "top_request_topic_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Provinces: that topic's share of the province's conversations, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "education_topic_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Provinces: share of conversations on Education & Learning, %"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
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   "name": "claude-usage-za-breakdown",
   "title": "South Africa: top request topics, job categories and tasks against the world",
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    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "facet",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "request_topic (top 10), job_category (top 10) or task (top 8)"
     },
     {
      "name": "rank",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Rank within the facet in South Africa"
     },
     {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Topic, job category (O*NET major group) or task (O*NET task statement), as published"
     },
     {
      "name": "za_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Share of South Africa's classified conversations, %"
     },
     {
      "name": "global_pct",
      "type": "number",
      "description": "The same share for all covered countries, %"
     }
    ]
   }
  }
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}