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africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-chad-weekly-124

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  - found
language:
  - en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
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  - original
task_categories:
  - tabular-regression
  - other
task_ids: []
tags:
  - africa
  - humanitarian
  - hdx
  - electric-sheep-africa
  - economics
  - food-security
  - indicators
  - markets
  - tcd
pretty_name: Chad Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data
dataset_info:
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 55088
    - name: test
      num_examples: 13772

Chad Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data

Publisher: FEWS NET · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-04-01

Abstract

Chad Weekly staple food price data collected by FEWS NET since 2002.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Temporal coverage is indicated by the period_date column(s). Geographic scope: TCD.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

Dataset Characteristics


Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	68,861
Columns	18 (3 numeric, 14 categorical, 1 datetime)
Train split	55,088 rows
Test split	13,772 rows
Geographic scope	TCD
Publisher	FEWS NET
HDX last updated	2026-04-01

Variables

Geographic — country (Chad), admin_1 (Kanem, N'Djamena, Ouaddai), longitude (range 14.7148–20.9267), latitude (range 8.5596–17.9287), price_type (Retail) and 2 others.

Temporal — period_date.

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 25.5–367968.0).

Identifier / Metadata — fnid (TD0000M010, TD0000M001, TD0000M004), source_document (Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Chad, Price (weekly)), product_source (Local, Import), esa_source, esa_processed.

Other — market (N'Djamena, Abeche, Bongor), cpcv2 (R01182AD, R01142AC, R01709AE), product (Millet (Pearl), Sorghum (Red), Cowpeas (Mixed)), unit (kg, ea, L).

Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-chad-weekly-124")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
`country`	object	0.0%	Chad
`fnid`	object	0.0%	TD0000M010, TD0000M001, TD0000M004
`market`	object	0.0%	N'Djamena, Abeche, Bongor
`admin_1`	object	0.0%	Kanem, N'Djamena, Ouaddai
`longitude`	float64	0.0%	14.7148 – 20.9267 (mean 17.2839)
`latitude`	float64	0.0%	8.5596 – 17.9287 (mean 12.1065)
`cpcv2`	object	0.0%	R01182AD, R01142AC, R01709AE
`product`	object	0.0%	Millet (Pearl), Sorghum (Red), Cowpeas (Mixed)
`source_document`	object	0.0%	Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Chad, Price (weekly)
`period_date`	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
`price_type`	object	0.0%	Retail
`product_source`	object	0.0%	Local, Import
`unit`	object	0.0%	kg, ea, L
`unit_type`	object	0.0%
`currency`	object	0.0%
`value`	float64	5.8%	25.5 – 367968.0 (mean 12892.3008)
`esa_source`	object	0.0%
`esa_processed`	object	0.0%

Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
`longitude`	14.7148	20.9267	17.2839	16.493
`latitude`	8.5596	17.9287	12.1065	12.1867
`value`	25.5	367968.0	12892.3008	512.28

Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 1 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

Limitations

Data originates from FEWS NET and has not been independently validated by ESA.
Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_chad_weekly_124,
  title     = {Chad Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data},
  author    = {FEWS NET},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_chad_weekly_124},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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