electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-kenya-monthly-125

Kenya Monthly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data

Publisher: FEWS NET · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-04-07

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Abstract

Kenya Monthly staple food price data collected by FEWS NET since 2005.

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

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	1,446
Columns	18 (3 numeric, 14 categorical, 1 datetime)
Train split	1,156 rows
Test split	289 rows
Geographic scope	KEN
Publisher	FEWS NET
HDX last updated	2026-04-07

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Variables

Geographic — country (Kenya), admin_1 (Nairobi), longitude (range 36.8317–36.8317), latitude (range -1.2826–-1.2826), price_type (Retail) and 2 others.

Temporal — period_date.

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 20.0–622.0).

Identifier / Metadata — fnid (KE0000M012), source_document (Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Kenya, Price), product_source (Local), esa_source, esa_processed.

Other — market (Nairobi), cpcv2 (P23490AA, P22110AA, P33360AA), product (Bread, Cow's Milk (Fresh, Pasteurized), Diesel), unit (L, 500_g, 500_ml).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-kenya-monthly-125")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
country	object	0.0%	Kenya
fnid	object	0.0%	KE0000M012
market	object	0.0%	Nairobi
admin_1	object	0.0%	Nairobi
longitude	float64	0.0%	36.8317 – 36.8317 (mean 36.8317)
latitude	float64	0.0%	-1.2826 – -1.2826 (mean -1.2826)
cpcv2	object	0.0%	P23490AA, P22110AA, P33360AA
product	object	0.0%	Bread, Cow's Milk (Fresh, Pasteurized), Diesel
source_document	object	0.0%	Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Kenya, Price
period_date	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
price_type	object	0.0%	Retail
product_source	object	0.0%	Local
unit	object	0.0%	L, 500_g, 500_ml
unit_type	object	0.0%
currency	object	0.0%
value	float64	0.6%	20.0 – 622.0 (mean 115.6194)
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
longitude	36.8317	36.8317	36.8317	36.8317
latitude	-1.2826	-1.2826	-1.2826	-1.2826
value	20.0	622.0	115.6194	90.0

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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.

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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.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_kenya_monthly_125,
  title     = {Kenya Monthly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data},
  author    = {FEWS NET},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_kenya_monthly_125},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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