electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-economic-activities-cdeff8fb

Census Data-Economic Activities | Africa (Ghana official open data)

50 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-Economic Activities
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Economically active population 15 years and older by age, type of locality, employment sector 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	50	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.	d165b546-05ba-4c49-b519-7378e521fd21:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2010
economically_active_population_15_years_and_older_by_age	string	Source column.	Age / Type of locality
unnamed_1	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_2	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_3	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_5	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_6	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_7	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_9	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_10	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_11	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_13	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_14	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_15	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_17	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_18	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_19	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_21	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_22	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_23	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_25	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_26	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_27	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_29	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_30	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_31	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_33	string	Source column.	Age / Type of locality
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-Economic Activities
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Economically active population 15 years and older by age, type of locali
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	9f73fb42-30c5-4b0b-a4d9-0a502a1efdcb
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	d165b546-05ba-4c49-b519-7378e521fd21
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Economically%25
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-economic-activities-cdeff8fb")
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_economic_activities_cdeff8fb_2010,
  title        = {Census Data-Economic Activities | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2010},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/census-data-economic-activities},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-economic-activities-cdeff8fb}}
}

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/Economically%2520active%2520population%252015%2520years%2520and%2520older%2520by%2520age%252C%2520type%2520of%2520locality%252C%2520%2520employment%2520sector%2520and%2520sex.csv