electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-population-79f3b2e1

Census Data-Population | Africa (Ghana official open data)

187 rows - 1 Africa country - 2010 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Ghana as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Census Data-Population
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Population by region, number of occupants per dwelling unit, type of locality and sex
• Format: CSV
• License: Open Data Commons Open Database License
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	187	2010	2010	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	a12734bd-1f09-4f87-9dad-8e2f82d9ec41:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2010
population_by_region_number_of_occupants_per_dwelling_un	string	Source column.	Region / Occupancy of dwelling unit
unnamed_1	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_2	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_3	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_6	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_7	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_8	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_10	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_11	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_12	float64	Source column.	``
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Census Data-Population
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Population by region, number of occupants per dwelling unit, type of loc
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	d8d88233-2a8d-493d-9a5c-d3b06d592d81
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	a12734bd-1f09-4f87-9dad-8e2f82d9ec41
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Population%2520
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	odc-odbl
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-population-79f3b2e1")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_census_data_population_79f3b2e1_2010,
  title        = {Census Data-Population | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2010},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/census-data-population},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-population-79f3b2e1}}
}

License

Released under Open Data Commons Open Database License.

Original data (c) Official government open data portal. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above 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 2026-07-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Population%2520by%2520region%252C%2520number%2520of%2520occupants%2520per%2520dwelling%2520unit%252C%2520type%2520of%2520locality%2520and%2520sex%2520.csv