electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2008-economic-financial-budget-25496f9e

2008 Economic Financial Budget | Africa (Ghana official open data)

69 rows - 1 Africa country - 2007-2008 - 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: 2008 Economic Financial Budget
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Poverty Reduction Expenditure By Sub-Sector In Ghana Cedi (GOG ONLY)
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	69	2007	2008	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• 2008-economic-financial-budget-25496f9e - 2008 Economic Financial Budget

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	2008-economic-financial-budget-25496f9e
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	2008 Economic Financial Budget
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2007
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	4605297395.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_unnamed_0	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_variables	string	Source dimension.	Total Govt Expenditure
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	2008 Economic Financial Budget
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Poverty Reduction Expenditure By Sub-Sector In Ghana Cedi (GOG ONLY)
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	66cef27d-c32d-44f4-b532-1385941f01e7
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	bbba9466-f861-42e7-b84b-84923cd4ef53
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/POVERTY%20REDUCTION%20EXPENDITURE
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2008-economic-financial-budget-25496f9e")
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_2008_economic_financial_budget_25496f9e_2008,
  title        = {2008 Economic Financial Budget | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2008},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/2008-economic-financial-budget},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2008-economic-financial-budget-25496f9e}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

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/POVERTY%20REDUCTION%20EXPENDITURE%20BY%20SUB-SECTOR%20IN%20%20GHANA%20CEDI%20%20%28GOG%20ONLY%29.csv