#access
#activity
#adm1
#adm2
#adm3
#adm4
#adm5
#affected
#beneficiary
#capacity
#cause
#channel
#contact
#country
#crisis
#currency
#date
#description
#event
#frequency
#geo
#group
#impact
#indicator
#inneed
#item
#loc
#meta
#modality
#need
#operations
#org
#output
#population
#reached
#region
#respondee
#sector
#service
#severity
#status
#subsector
#targeted
#value
Top-level subnational administrative area (e.g. a governorate in Syria). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Second-level subnational administrative area (e.g. a subdivision in Bangladesh). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Third-level subnational administrative area (e.g. a subdistrict in Afghanistan). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Fourth-level subnational administrative area (e.g. a barangay in the Philippines). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Fifth-level subnational administrative area (e.g. a ward of a city). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Country (often left implied in a dataset). Also sometimes known as admin level 0. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Geodetic geometry information (points, lines, shapes). Use for latitude and longitude, as well as bounds information. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +bounds +coord +elevation +lat +lon
Any general location, such as a village, camp, or clinic. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin +type
A broad, supra- or cross-national geographical region (e.g. Sahel, Horn of Africa, Central Asia, Caribbean). Not to be confused with "region" used as the name of a subnational area (#adm1) in some countries. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +dest +name +origin
Number of people or households affected by an emergency. Subset of #population; superset of #inneed. Since version 1.0
Every value must be a number.
Attributes: +abducted +adolescents +adults +children +displaced +elderly +f +hh +i +idps +incamp +ind +infants +infected +injured +killed +m +noncamp +refugees
General (non-numeric) information about a person or group meant to benefit from aid activities, e.g. "lactating women". Since version 1.0
Number of people or households in need of humanitarian assistance. Subset of #affected; superset of #targeted. Since version 1.0
Every value must be a number.
Attributes: +abducted +adolescents +adults +children +displaced +elderly +f +hh +i +idps +incamp +ind +infants +infected +injured +m +noncamp +refugees
General population number for an area or location, regardless of their specific humanitarian needs. Since version 1.0
Every value must be a number.
Attributes: +adolescents +adults +children +displaced +elderly +f +hh +i +idps +incamp +ind +infants +m +noncamp +refugees
Number of people or households reached with humanitarian assistance. Subset of #targeted. Since version 1.0
Every value must be a number.
Attributes: +abducted +adolescents +adults +children +displaced +elderly +f +hh +i +idps +incamp +ind +infants +infected +injured +m +noncamp +refugees
Descriptive information, such as name, identifier, or traits, for a single respondee (person, household, etc.) in survey-style data. Since version 1.1
Number of people or households targeted for humanitarian assistance. Subset of #inneed; superset of #reached. Since version 1.0
Every value must be a number.
Attributes: +abducted +adolescents +adults +children +displaced +elderly +f +hh +i +idps +incamp +ind +infants +infected +injured +m +noncamp +refugees
Accessiblity and constraints on access to a market, distribution point, facility, etc. Since version 1.1
Attributes: +type
A programme, project, or other activity. This hashtag applies to all levels; use the attributes +activity, +project, or +programme to distinguish different hierarchical levels. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +activity +code +name +programme +project +type +url
The response capacity of the entity being described (e.g. "25 beds"). Since version 1.0
Contact information for the subject of a data record (e.g. an activity). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +email +name +phone +type +url
The frequency with which something occurs. Since version 1.1
Attributes: +type
A general hashtag for an indicator being tracked. See also #output, #capacity, #need, #impact, #severity, #affected, #inneed, #targeted, and #reached for more-specific indicator-related hashtags. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +name +num +text +type
Physical things provided, stored, shipped, available, used, etc. Since version 1.1
Attributes: +code +name +provided +type +used
A(n) (unfulfilled) need for an affected person, household, group, or population. Since version 1.1
Information that affects humanitarian operations, such as a restriction on movement or road closure. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +type
An organisation contributing to a humanitarian emergency response, e.g. a local government, community-based organisation, NGO, agency, donor, or law-enforcement or military unit. Use #group for organisations that are not part of the emergency response (e.g. a paramilitary group). Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +funder +impl +name +prog +type +url
An output indicator (e.g. "number of water-purification kits distributed"). A more-specific alternative to #indicator, especially for 3W-style activity reports. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +code +name +num +type
A humanitarian cluster or sector. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +cluster +code +name +type
A service used or needed by an affected person, household, group, or population. Since version 1.1
Attributes: +code +name +provided +type +url +used
A humanitarian subsector. Since version 1.0
The detailed method of delivering aid (e.g. smartcard vs mobile transfer). More specific than #modality. Since version 1.1
Name or ISO 4217 currency code for all financial #value cells in the row (e.g. "EUR"). Typically used together with #value in financial or cash data. Since version 1.1
Attributes: +code
The means by which an aid activity is accomplished. For cash transfers, values might include "cash", "vouchers", "in-kind", etc. May also be used for other types of modalities in other contexts. Since version 1.1
A monetary value, such as the price of goods in a market, a project budget, or the amount of cash transferred to beneficiaries. May be used together with #currency in financial or cash data. Since version 1.1
Every value must be a number.
The cause of an event, crisis, etc. Since version 1.0
A humanitarian emergency. Since version 1.0
An individual event or incident within a crisis/emergency, such as a (localised) flood, bridge collapse, or conflict. Since version 1.0
A non-humanitarian group (of any type) related to humanitarian crisis (e.g., a paramilitary group) Use #org instead for a humanitarian organisation such as an NGO, contributing to the humanitarian response. Since version 1.0
The impact of a crisis on a group or other entity. Since version 1.0
Severity of the crisis or event. Since version 1.0
Date related to the data in the record applies. Preferred format is ISO 8610 (e.g. "2015-06-01", "2015-Q1", etc.) Since version 1.0
Every value must be a date.
Attributes: +approved +canceled +converted +end +occurred +reported +start
Long description for a data record. Since version 1.0
Attributes: +type
Metadata about a row. Since version 1.0
Project/activity status description (such as "planned", "active", "canceled", or "complete"). Since version 1.0