electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2009-economic-financial-budget-fd3f563f

2009 Economic Financial Budget | Africa (Ghana official open data)

130 rows - 1 Africa country - 2005-2008 - 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: 2009 Economic Financial Budget
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Balance of Payments Accounts (US$ millions)
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	130	2005	2008	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• 2009-economic-financial-budget-fd3f563f - 2009 Economic Financial Budget

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	2009-economic-financial-budget-fd3f563f
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	2009 Economic Financial Budget
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2005
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	-1104.6
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_balance_of_payments_accounts_us_millions	string	Source dimension.	Current Account
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2009
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2009
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2009
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	2009 Economic Financial Budget
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Balance of Payments Accounts (US$ millions)
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	c4e9bc17-f060-4ac6-89dc-f2b4008dd761
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	fe3741c3-a542-46c2-a4d7-50628fc95c8a
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/Balance%20of%20Payments%20Account
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-2009-economic-financial-budget-fd3f563f")
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_2009_economic_financial_budget_fd3f563f_2008,
  title        = {2009 Economic Financial Budget | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2008},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/2009-economic-financial-budget},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2009-economic-financial-budget-fd3f563f}}
}

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/Balance%20of%20Payments%20Accounts%20%28US%24%20millions%29.csv