electricsheepafrica/africa-ethiopia-official-open-data-catalog

Ethiopia official open data catalog | Africa (Official CKAN API)

3 resource records - 1 Africa country - 3 CKAN packages - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 3 resource records from the official Ethiopia CKAN open data portal, covering 3 packages. It is a country-level upstream catalog snapshot for finding authoritative African public-sector datasets to package next.

About the source

• Source: Ethiopia official open data portal
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• API: https://www.data.gov.et
• License: Mixed; see license_id, license_title, and license_url columns.
• Topic: National open data catalog

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	Packages	Portal
ETH	3	3	Ethiopia

Resources (sample)

Package	Resource	Format	License
SSGI-WFS	Space Science and Geospatia Institute		other-open
Alliance Bioversity &CIAT	alliancebioversityandciat		other-open
CIMMYT Ethiopia	cimmyethiopia	XLSX	other-open

Top publishing organizations

• Alliance Bioversity &CIAT: 1
• CIMMYT Ethiopia: 1
• Space Science and Geospatia Institute (SSGI): 1

Resource formats

• unspecified: 2
• XLSX: 1

Source licenses

• other-open: 3

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
retrieved_at	string	UTC API retrieval timestamp	2026-07-16T17:39:27Z
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code	ETH
country_name	string	Country name	Ethiopia
portal_url	string	Official portal base URL	https://www.data.gov.et
api_base_url	string	CKAN API base URL	https://www.data.gov.et
package_id	string	CKAN package UUID	abc123
package_name	string	CKAN package slug	health-facilities
package_title	string	CKAN package title	Health facilities
organization_title	string	Publishing organization	Ministry of Health
license_id	string	Source package license ID	odc-odbl
tag_names	string	Semicolon-separated CKAN tags	health; hospitals
resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID	def456
resource_name	string	Resource title	Facilities CSV
resource_format	string	Resource file or API format	CSV
resource_url	string	Download or API URL	https://...
resource_datastore_active	bool	Whether CKAN datastore is active	True

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ethiopia-official-open-data-catalog")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter downloadable CSV resources

csv_resources = df[df["resource_format"].str.upper().eq("CSV")]

Find packages by organization

by_org = df.groupby("organization_title")["package_id"].nunique().sort_values(ascending=False)
print(by_org.head(20))

Inspect source licenses

licenses = df[["license_id", "license_title", "license_url"]].drop_duplicates()
print(licenses)

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ethiopia_official_open_data_catalog_2026,
  title        = {Ethiopia official open data catalog | Africa (Official CKAN API)},
  author       = {Ethiopia official open data portal},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://www.data.gov.et},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ethiopia-official-open-data-catalog}}
}

License

This catalog snapshot is released as other because source packages may have mixed licenses. Check license_id, license_title, and license_url before redistributing individual resources.

Original metadata and resources are published by the source portal above. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-27 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.data.gov.et. CKAN retrieval timestamp: 2026-07-27T11:36:15Z